For over 80 years, Hillel UW has provided opportunities for our community to come together and celebrate Passover. Morris Polack, z”l, for whom our annual Passover Fund is named, gave generously of his time and resources to Hillel UW. It was during Passover lunches that he would personally greet, and then solicit, all of his friends to give so that we could continue to come together as a whole community to celebrate Passover at Hillel.
We hope you will join us for in person Kosher for Passover lunches at Hillel on Monday, April 10, 2023 and Tuesday, April 11, 2023. Details will be posted in early March 2023.
Hillel’s 2022 Morris Polack Campaign Donors of $500 or more include:
Visionary Sponsor
Acme Food Sales, Inc.
Lead Sponsor
James and Leatrice Keller
Major Sponsors
Anonymous
Herman & Faye Sarkowsky Charitable Foundation
Rabbi Arthur A. Jacobovitz Donor Advised Fund
Champion Sponsors
Anonymous
Brian and Nancy Quint
Tillie and Alfred Shemanski Foundations
Patron Sponsors
Anonymous (2)
David and Terry Azose
Joseph and Karyn Barer
Marilyn and Dick Brody
Tom and Jo Ann Hornsten
Jennifer Malakoff
Heike and Edward Malakoff
Michelle Feder and Lewis Malakoff
The Okrent Family Foundation
Benefactor Sponsors
Eli and Rebecca Almo
Karen Binder
Rosemary J. Coleman and Davis B. Fox
Sandra and David Kurland
Aaron and Nancy Marcus
David and Celeste Rind
Laurie Bernbaum and Alex Rosen
Henrika and Michael Sandorffy
Phillip and Therese Stein
Jacob Van de Rhoer and Lucille Noel
Dean Polik & Paul Malakoff z”l
Upon Morris’s passing in 1993, Paul Malakoff z”l took over this role and made sure that he was there, at Hillel’s front door, warmly welcoming community members and students to our annual Passover lunches while wearing a red apron inscribed with, “Pesach’s my name and matzah’s my game!”
When we lost Paul in 2017, Dean Polik, Morris’s nephew, took on the responsibility of helping to greet everyone along with Paul’s two sons, Lew and Ed. And, in loving memory of Paul, we started the Red Apron Society to annually recognize two current students who reflect the type of person Paul would want to honor, “the mensch who is doing good for Hillel without being conspicuous” and having them wear one of Paul’s special red aprons during lunch.
Red Apron Society Awardees
2022Lauren HarrisSolomon Lubell
2021
Addie Bjornson
Haley Masters
2020
Shana Edouard
Liam Geisser
2019
Abigail Freeman
Jacob Freyd
2018
Anna Kornfeld Simpson
Noah Zwiren
