The Amy Adina Schulman Memorial Fund
The Amy Adina Schulman Memorial is an endowment fund started in 1987 to commemorate the brief but vibrant life of a twenty year old college student, a neuropsychology major, and an activist for ten years in the progressive Labor Zionist Youth Movement, Habonim-Dror. Adina died suddenly from a burst aneurysm while a student in her junior year at Rutgers University.
About Amy Adina Schulman
Born in Princeton, New Jersey in 1965 Amy attended Princeton public schools. She became a Bat Mitzvah and later had her Confirmation at The Jewish Center of Princeton. Graduating early from Princeton High School, she immediately matriculated to Rutgers University where she pursued her academic interest in the biological sciences. At this time she stopped using her first name Amy, choosing to call herself by her middle name, the Hebrew name, Adina.
It was her ten-year involvement with Habonim-Dror, the progressive Labor Zionist Youth Movement, that shaped and molded her social consciousness, her commitment to social action and civil rights, a concern for the underprivileged, and a respect for the humanity of those who are different. These values were developed in the movement's summer camp and in its year-long programs. Adina matured from a camper in the youngest group, to a junior counselor, counselor, and head of Camp Galil's arts and crafts specialty. She was active in the local Princeton-Trenton chapter, and was a member of the Delaware Valley Executive Committee.
Taking a year's leave from college, Adina participated in Habonim-Dror's Workshop program in Israel living on Kibbutz Gesher HaZiv during the 1984-85 academic year. She resumed her studies at Rutgers during 1985-86 and helped organize a Progressive Zionist Caucus (PZC) chapter at the university. She became a member of the Mazkirut, the national governing body of Habonim. She returned to the kibbutz in the summer of 1986.
In the Fall of 1986 Adina co-founded and lived in a cooperative housing unit (the bayit) at Rutgers. An aneurysm burst on November 11, 1986, and Adina died suddenly at age 20, her dreams of tikkun olam, social justice, left for others to fulfill.