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Label A. Katz Young Leadership Award

The award goes to individuals under 45 who have demonstrated outstanding service to the totality of B’nai B’rith and have worked to achieve the goals of the B’nai B’rith Young Leadership program.
 
The honor has proven a good measure of future achievement in B’nai B’rith, as many presidents and top organizational leaders have won the Label A. Katz award. In fact, the newly elected B’nai B’rith International president, Gary P. Saltzman, won the award in 1989.

The 2015 Label A. Katz Young Leadership Award winners are:


Daniel Citone

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Daniel Citone of Rome, Italy, earned the 2015 Label A. Katz Young Leadership Award, named for the youngest person to achieve the office of international president of B’nai B’rith. Citone received his award at B’nai B’rith’s 2015 policy forum in Washington, D.C.
 
Citone recently assumed the presidency of B’nai B’rith Europe—the youngest person ever to serve in that role. He will oversee activities across Europe, in coordination with B’nai B’rith International.
 
Citone has been involved in B’nai B’rith since 1994, when he founded the youth lodge of Rome. In 2008, he organized the second B’nai B’rith Europe Young Adult Forum in Rome. He has taken part in the last two B’nai B’rith International missions to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.
 
From 2012 until assuming the B’nai B’rith Europe presidency last week, Citone was a senior vice president of B’nai B’rith International, and was a member of the executive committee of B’nai B’rith Europe from 2013 to 2014.  Citone, along with other B’nai B’rith Europe leaders, took part in a solidarity trip in southern Israel during the 2014 Hamas terror incursion into Israel.
 
He focuses his involvement on advocating for Israel, informing people about the Jewish state and on Judaism, as well as fighting anti-Semitism.
 
During the captivity of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, Citone worked diligently with the Shalit Committee, helping to organize an event outside the Coliseum in Rome, where the mayor of Rome conferred honorary citizenship on the captive Israeli soldier, installing his name on the wall of the town hall.  


Eduard Redensky

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​Eduard Redensky of Illinois earned the 2015 Label A. Katz Young Leadership Award, named for the youngest person to achieve the office of international president of B’nai B’rith. Redensky received his award at B’nai B’rith’s 2015 policy forum on Nov. 8 in Washington, D.C.
 
Redensky, a member of the B’nai B’rith Board of Governors, currently serves as chairman of the B’nai B’rith Young Leadership Network. He previously served as the chair of the Young Leadership Network – Chicago, reaching out to other young leaders to create and support programming that engaged them in B’nai B’rith’s active agenda in Chicago and on the international scene. He is also a member of the Midwest Regional Board.
 
He has been an integral part of B’nai B’rith International projects, participating as a delegate to the WZO meetings in Israel in fall 2015 and as a member of the B’nai B’rith Adenauer Mission to Germany in 2012.
 
Redensky was born in Chișinău, in what was then known as Soviet Republic of Moldova, and emigrated with his family to the metro Detroit area as a child.  He now resides in Chicago. He is passionate about the issues facing Jews around the world and is committed to advancing the B’nai B’rith agenda on issues of international relations, human rights, humanitarian aid and advocacy on behalf of Israel and the Jewish people.


Alberto Eduardo Seelenberger Farba

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Alberto Eduardo Seelenberger Farba of Chile earned the 2015 Label A. Katz Young Leadership Award, named for the youngest person to achieve the office of international president of B’nai B’rith. Farba received his award at B’nai B’rith’s 2015 policy forum on Nov. 8 in Washington, D.C.
 
The Seelenberger family’s involvement with B’nai B’rith goes back four generations. Seelenberger continues this legacy as vice treasurer of District 27, Chile. Previously, he served as a director on the district’s executive committee.
 
He has been actively involved in many projects, including the communications commission and the annual interfaith Passover Seder. He also participated in the creation of the Dor Haneshama Lodge as a new group for young people. He has consistently promoted membership in the group and has successfully encouraged its growth.
 
Seelenberger, actively involved in the work of the Jewish community, encourages the lodge and district to pursue projects that help the disadvantaged. He is committed to the continuity of Chilean Jewish life.
 
He is also an architect, and has three children.


Silvia Kleiman de Pupkin and Ricardo Pupkin

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Silvia Kleiman de Pupkin and Ricardo Pupkin of Chile earned the 2015 Label A. Katz Young Leadership Award, named for the youngest person to achieve the office of international president of B’nai B’rith. Silvia and Ricardo received this award at B’nai B’rith’s 2015 policy conference on Nov. 8 in Washington, D.C.
 
Silvia and Ricardo met at a leadership training seminar in Israel—a course for community leaders from Latin America. Both have served as leaders in the Dor Haneshama Lodge in Chile: Silvia as secretary, mariscala, guardian and president, while Ricardo has served as first vice president.
 
They are strong supporters of several projects, but they are especially active in the B’nai B’rith Chile scholarship program. Both provide tutoring on their professions, with Silvia tutoring students studying kinesiology and Ricardo tutoring engineering students. Their knowledge and guidance, demonstrate that the Pupkins are extraordinary role models in their community. They have even opened their home to support networking opportunities for students.
 
The Pupkins are also supportive of a social service foundation in Santiago that works with needy, disabled children. They have connected their lodge to support this center, providing with clothing and toys, as well as supporting fund raising events for the cause. Silvia and Ricardo are parents of three children.


Rachel Silvestain

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Rachel Silvestain of Colorado earned the 2015 Label A. Katz Young Leadership Award, named for the youngest person to achieve the office of international president of B’nai B’rith. Silvestain received her award at B’nai B’rith’s 2015 policy forum on Nov. 8 in Washington, D.C.
 
Silvestain is the chair of the Young Leadership Network-Denver Core Group. She works to create and engage young leaders in the Denver community with unique programming, as well as connect them to the B’nai B’rith Denver Lodge. She organized events like Field Day, Havdallah on the Beach and multiple happy hours. She has also coordinated young leadership community service activities, in cooperation with the Denver Lodge, such as the annual Leadville Cemetery clean-up and Mitzvah weekend. 
 
Silvestain serves as the vice president of finance for the Denver Lodge and serves on its Board of Governors. She is an accountant for Anadarko Petroleum and the vice president of leadership through energy education, development and relations. She will become president of leadership in January.
 
She was nominated for this award in recognition of the commitment she brings to the Denver community and to B’nai B’rith. 


Rachel Taubman Glickfeld
​Rachel Taubman Glickfeld of Michigan earned the 2015 Label A. Katz Young Leadership Award, named for the youngest person to achieve the office of international president of B’nai B’rith. Glickfeld received her award at B’nai B’rith’s 2015 policy forum on Nov. 8 in Washington, D.C.
 
Glickfeld serves on the B’nai B’rith Great Lakes Region Board and is chair of the College Scholarship Selection Committee. She also supports fund raising activities for the scholarships and promotes the committee’s important contribution to the community of Detroit. 
 
She continues her family’s long commitment to the activities of B’nai B’rith in the Great Lakes Region, formerly involved at GATA Dinners that honored community leaders with the Great American Traditions Award. As a teen Glickfeld was involved with B’nai B’rith Youth Organization, and then gave back to the organization as a chapter advisor. 
 
Glickfeld is a professional in the Jewish community, working on the staff of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit as an outreach associate for the NEXTGen Detroit program, aimed at connecting young Jews in the city. Glickfeld and her husband, Greg, are expecting their first child in January 2016.