The son of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen and an Orthodox Jewish college student are two of this year’s recipients of Rhodes scholarships.
Ronan Farrow, 23, works for the State Department as a special adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on global youth issues. He previously worked for UNICEF and the former ambassador to the United Nations, the late Richard Holbrooke. A graduate of Yale Law School and of Bard College, he will study international development at Oxford University.
Miriam Rosenbaum, a senior at Princeton University, will study bioethics at Oxford. Rosenbaum, who volunteered at an orphanage in Ukraine, had to wait until the end of Shabbat to tell her friends and relatives about the honor, according to the New York Post.
“I am very excited to learn from all the other scholars and hope I can be a role model, especially for Orthodox Jewish girls to get an education and strive to do whatever you can,” she told the newspaper.
Some 32 Americans and about 80 students around the world receive the annual scholarship for graduate study at Oxford. — jta