Donors at a recent reception celebrating the 39th anniversary of the Hartford area’s Jewish Community Foundation listened as Meredith Rothstein (right), a 2011 graduate of Lesley College who will begin teaching special needs students in Boston this fall, and Leah Goldberg, a 2011 graduate of UConn who is a nurse at Middletown Hospital, talked about how they achieved their academic goals with the help of generous scholarships from the Foundation. Photo by Lorraine Greenfield.