{"id":18424,"date":"2023-05-31T09:57:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T14:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/?p=18424"},"modified":"2023-05-31T09:57:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T14:57:06","slug":"celebrating-jewish-american-heritage-month-2023-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/2023\/05\/31\/celebrating-jewish-american-heritage-month-2023-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Jewish-American Heritage Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you know that May is Jewish American Heritage Month<\/a>? To close out the month we’d like to share a pair of quick, 60-second interviews to highlight a couple of our dedicated Envoy employees in the flight deck and the airport. <\/span>Read below to learn more about Lead Customer Service Agent Abbey Heggan<\/strong> and First Officer Stuart Adler<\/strong> and what their Jewish-American heritage means to them.<\/p>\n

Abbey Heggan — DFW Lead Customer Service Agent<\/h3>\n

What is your Envoy story?<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have been with Envoy for a year and 7 months, and I am currently an acting supervisor. My day-to-day responsibilities are to assist the agents and leads when they need my help, as well as help customers if they have any issues or questions that come up.<\/p>\n

What’s the significance of Jewish American Heritage Month to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

To me it recognizes and celebrates the contributions of Jewish Americans to American culture, history, and society.<\/p>\n

Who in your life has inspired you or is your role model?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My role model would be my mom, she has shown me to work hard for my dream even if it’s difficult.<\/p>\n

How do you like to celebrate Jewish culture?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Things I enjoy about my culture are holidays such as Hanukkah, Sukkot and Passover. I enjoy them because I have a big family so those are some of the times during the year that we all get together and celebrate the festivities.<\/p>\n

Tell us one surprising fact about yourself that others may not know.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Something about me that a lot of people don’t know is that I have a cosmetology license. I do hair on the side for close friends and family.<\/p>\n

Stuart Adler — First Officer (MIA)<\/h3>\n

What is your Envoy story?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been with Envoy now for just over six months and hold the current position of first officer. My day-to-day responsibilities are assisting the captain in operating the aircraft and ensuring our customers make it to their destinations safely.<\/p>\n

What’s the significance of Jewish American Heritage Month to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

To me it’s about celebrating the lives and contributions of Jewish people all over the world, while recognizing they have been able to overcome a lot of challenges to be successful, and as contributing members in their society.<\/p>\n

Favorite historical figures of mine are David Ben Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel; Sandy Koufax, a famous baseball player who sat out the World Series on Yom Kippur; and Martin Luther King Jr., who fought for the idea that all people are created equal.<\/p>\n

Who in your life has inspired you or is your role model?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My role models and people that I admire are my past college roommate, Jacob Hill, who is currently an operations manager of air traffic in Orlando and President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

How do you like to celebrate Jewish culture?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I like to celebrate Jewish culture by having my family involved in celebrating the Jewish holidays. I also think it\u2019s really neat to be open about my Jewishness as a pilot, as this is an industry that not a lot of Jews are in and are underrepresented.<\/p>\n

Most importantly, I try to instill positive values in my sons to do your best, control what you can control, and being charitable and helping others less fortunate.<\/p>\n

Tell us one surprising fact about yourself that others may not know.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One surprising fact that others may not know is that I have a passion for good food and cooking, and would like to start a blog for finding the best restaurants on layovers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did you know that May is Jewish American Heritage Month? To close out the month we’d like to share a pair of quick, 60-second interviews to highlight a couple of our dedicated Envoy employees in the flight deck and the airport. Read below to learn more about Lead Customer Service Agent Abbey Heggan and First […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":41754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}