From "The Jewish Week", May 22, 2012 Roman Shmulenson, 34 Part of a Ukrainian-Jewish family that came to the U.S. in 1993, Roman Shmulenson made his first meaningful contact with the Jewish community while studying at a Brooklyn high school the next year. A social worker from the Jewish Board of Family and Children鈥檚 Services who met with 茅migr茅 teens arranged a scholarship for Shmulenson to visit Israel. The trip energized his Jewish feelings; today he鈥檚 paying his spiritual debt, as a leader of the 茅migr茅 community. Shmulenson, who lives in Sheepshead Bay, is executive director of the Council of Jewish 脡migr茅 Community Organizations, an umbrella group that receives funding from UJA-Federation of New York and private foundations. He came to COJECO, whose 33 member organizations include synagogues and community councils and cultural groups, from his job at Brooklyn鈥檚 Sephardic Community Center.