Three hundred people attended Rabbi Pesach Raymon Yeshiva’s Annual Toby Mayer Memorial Scholarship Fund Breakfast on Sunday, December 18. The event, part of RPRY’s ongoing Scholarship Campaign, raised a record amount for scholarship awards at the school, over $300,000 and growing. This sum helps ensure the continuation of RPRY’s policy that no child will be denied a Jewish education for financial reasons.

The breakfast was in memory of Mrs. Toby Mayer, a beloved wife and a mother of three RPRY alumni, Alexis (‘04), Carly (‘07), and Jared (‘09). Her legacy of dedication to Jewish values was commemorated through the event, at which her husband Steve was the master of ceremonies. He expressed that he is “grateful for the outpouring of support of the parent body locally and those not within the community” for aiding the school’s mission.

Mrs. Shulamis Benjamin was given the Educator Excellence Award at the breakfast. Benjamin has taught in early childhood for the past thirty-one years. Her warm smile and perpetual enthusiasm have made her a long-standing, shining example of the RPRY early childhood educational experience. She expressed her commitment “to give each child love and trust and confidence to spread their wings,” and her hakarat hatov to the RPRY community for, as she put it, “helping me to achieve my goal in trying to be the best teacher I can be.” Her acceptance speech concluded the event that will help many current and future students afford a stellar Jewish education at RPRY.