The Anti-Defamation League of Missouri, Southern Illinois and Eastern Kansas announced that local high school seniors Ben Cohen and Madeleine (Maddy) Toskin are the recipients of the 19th Annual Meyer and Marcelle Kranzberg Memorial Scholarship Awards. 

Each will receive a $2,000 college scholarship. Nominees Alex Dubinsky, Jessie Goldberg, Leah Jacobson, Allyson Segall and Allison Worth each received a $100 book stipend.

During the interactive selection process, nominees were asked to reflect quickly on the Jewish response to refugee and immigration challenges and online bullying incidents in local high schools. All nominees submitted essays as part of the application process and responded to questions on those essays from Selection Committee members. 

Adinah Raskas chairs the Selection Committee.  Ken Kranzberg, a member of ADL’s National Executive Committee and former chair of the ADL’s regional advisory board established the scholarship in his parents’ memory.   Members of the Selection Committee included Kranzberg and Raskas, along with Rhiannon Kaye, Michele Kopolow, Constance Levy, Rhoda Kahn Nussbaum, Mary Ann Srenco and Marc Spector.