
HIAS Pennsylvania’s 2023 Golden Door Awards: United for Immigrants
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History
101 South Independence Mall East
Philadelphia, PA 19106 United States
The Golden Door Awards is HIAS Pennsylvania’s annual fundraiser. Your generous support helps us serve low-income immigrants from all over the world as they build new lives in our community.
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Honoring those who lead the way in support of immigrants and refugees:
Nelofar Asadi
a teenager, ripped from her homeland, who has never stopped using her art and her voice to bravely advocate for Afghan girls and women.
Blank Rome LLP
a stalwart pro bono partner whose attorneys and staff responded immediately to the Afghan crisis, providing representation to many Afghan clients in their asylum, humanitarian parole, and family reunification matters.
Mishkan Shalom Reconstructionist Synagogue &
St. Vincent de Paul Roman Catholic Church
RESA RUDNEY AWARD HONOREE
The inaugural Resa Rudney Award, bestowed for extraordinary community support.
Mishkan Shalom Reconstructionist Synagogue and St. Vincent de Paul Roman Catholic Church are the epitome of welcoming the stranger and showing what makes Philadelphia a welcoming community.

The Resa Rudney Award
Resa Rudney was an extraordinary woman—compassionate, devoted to family and friends, giving of herself, and admired by all who knew her. She was passionate about social causes and was always on a mission to do something that would make a difference in someone’s life. Her activism included work with Hadassah, Technion, Israel Bonds, Main Line Reform Temple, and Habitat for Humanity, where at the age of 78, she flew to Mississippi to help build houses for survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
She was a strong believer in HIAS Pennsylvania’s mission, passionate about welcoming the stranger and helping refugees to settle in Philadelphia, and relentless in getting others to help. Resa herself was honored at the 2013 Golden Door Awards.
As one refugee from Myanmar described her, “she was the light” that shared love and hope to many who had none.
HIAS Pennsylvania is the registered fictitious name of HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia; tax ID number 23-1405597. The official registration and financial information of HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia may be obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of State by calling toll-free, within Pennsylvania, 1-800-732-0999. Registration does not imply endorsement.
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS
Golden Door Sponsors
Dveera Segal & Bradley Bridge, in honor of the Germantown Jewish Centre Refugee Welcoming Team
Torchbearer Sponsors
Dechert LLP
Clare Kahn Mozes & Sanford K. Mozes
American Dreamer Sponsors
Comcast NBCUniversal
Judith Ginsberg
Landau, Hess, Simon, Choi & Doebley
Richard Weisbrot & Barbara Shaiman
Larry & Harriet Weiss
Global Citizen Sponsors
The Brant Family
Bud & Betty Hirsch
Maureen Pelta & Alan M. Feldman
Alice & Michael Solomon
Wayne Immigrants Sponsor of Hope (WISH)
Roger & Lillian Youman
Passport Partner Sponsors
Anonymous
Judi Bernstein-Baker
Matthew I. Hirsch
Honorable Frederica Massiah-Jackson
In honor of Wayne Immigrants Sponsor of Hope (WISH)
Eve Biskind Klothen & Kenneth L. Klothen
Rina & Ivan Rosenberg
Daniel Schwarz, Ph.D.
Mindy & Carl Silver
Irwin Solomon
Robert, Jamie, Scott, Alexandra & Wyatt Solomon
Ilene Wasserman & Mark Taylor
The Wenger Family
Friend Sponsors
Emily M. Cohen, Esq.
Arthur Cohn
Mary L. Goldman
Rabbi Alan Iser & Sharon Liebhaber
Denise & Jeffrey Portner
Cantor Marshall Portnoy
Karyn L. Scher
Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP
Ellen Weber
Esther Weinrach
Marsha Weinraub & Stuart Schmidt