HAFTR senior named a scholar-artist

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Tamara Heller, a senior at the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway (HAFTR) was selected as one of only 20 Long Island Scholar-Artist Award of Merit winners in the 2013-2014 Scholar-Artist program.

The program is sponsored by the Long Island Arts Alliance. Heller will receive her award at a gala at the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts on the LIU Post campus.

Heller is a member of HAFTR High School’s Art Institute that is under the direction of Dale Malekoff. The award was based on grades, extra-curricular activities and the submission of a portfolio.