— Chana Diskin in Munich, Germany, speaking about the bar mitzvah of her youngest son, who has special needs

— Rabbi Zalman Wolowik, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of the Five Towns in Cedarhurst, N.Y., who gave the invocation at the historic opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem

— Sari Pastore, who lives in one of the flooded areas on the Hawaiian island of Kauai

— Amanda Nussbaum, who will receive a B.A. in economics from Binghamton University in an alternative graduation for Jewish students

— Rafael Ilishayev, 25, who with a fellow alumni dedicated a Torah to Chabad Serving Drexel University in Philadelphia