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A PUBLICATION OF THE RABBINIC ALUMNI OF THE ELCHANAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY • AN AFFILIATE OF UNIVERSITY Volume 48 • Number 1 אין התורה נקנית אלא בחבורה (ברכות סג:) March 2014 • II 5774

CJF: Making a A Charge to the Difference Graduates Page 10 Page 19 In This Issue

Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary Page 3 News Remembering Rabbi Lifschitz zt’l, Rabbi Blech’s 80th Richard M. Joel Birthday, and more. PRESIDENT, BRAVMANN FAMILY UNIVERSITY

Rabbi Dr. ROSH HAYESHIVA EMERITUS, RIETS

Joel M. Schrieber CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, RIETS Page 13 Upcoming Events Pre-Chag HaSemikhah Events for RIETS Alumni and the Community Rabbi Menachem Penner ACTING DEAN, RIETS

Rabbi Kenneth Brander VICE PRESIDENT FOR UNIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY LIFE MITZNER DEAN, CENTER FOR THE JEWISH FUTURE Page 15 In Pictures Rabbi DEAN EMERITUS, RIETS Chanukah on campus, YU Student Medical Ethics SPECIAL ADVISOR TO THE PRESIDENT ON YESHIVA AFFAIRS Conference, RIETS opening , ’s Yarchei Kallah, Pre-Tu B’Shvat Mishmar in and more Rabbi Robert Hirt VICE PRESIDENT EMERITUS, RIETS

Rabbi Yaakov Glasser ASSOCIATE DEAN, CENTER FOR THE JEWISH FUTURE Page 18 Letter to Musmakhim Page 23 From the Dean’s Office Rabbi Chaim Bronstein Rabbi Kenneth Brander An Interview with ADMINISTRATOR, RIETS Rabbi Menachem Penner Page 19 Divrei Chizuk Rabbi Adam Berner • Rabbi Binyamin Blau A Charge to the Semikhah Page 27 Recently Published Books Rabbi Kenneth Hain • Rabbi Elazar Muskin Graduates By Rabbi Rakeffet-Rothkoff Page 28 Life-Cycle Events Rabbi Moshe Neiss • Rabbi Dr. Rybak Rabbi Shmuel Silber • Rabbi Perry Tirschwell Rabbi Elchanan Weinbach • Rabbi Howard Zack Rabbi Eliezer Zwickler YESHIVA UNIVERSITY RABBINIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE

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Remembering Rabbi Rabbi Blech Dovid Lifschitz zt’l Honored at 80th Birthday Celebration

Rabbi Benjamin Blech, associate professor of at Yeshiva University, was honored at a celebration of his 80th birthday on October 30. The event commemorated Rabbi Blech’s 47 years of teaching at the Yeshiva and included remarks by President Richard M. Joel, Rabbi Dr. J. Schacter and Dr. Jonathan Kusznitz in addition to Rabbi Blech. At the ceremony, Rabbi Blech was also presented with an award in recognition of his years of service by Acting Dean of RIETS, Rabbi Menachem Penner. “Rabbi Blech has the capacity in his writing and teaching to speak with such clarity and insight that people of different backgrounds can take profound lessons from him at their own level,” said President Joel. “On behalf of all of us at YU, thank you for your enlightenment to the world. What we On Sunday, June 16, 2013, RIETS and RIETS Rabbinic Alumni hosted do today is celebrate, G-d willing, the first two- almost 300 people to commemorate the 20th of one of the yahrtzeit thirds of your life.” n pillars of the Yeshiva: Dovid Lifschitz, zt’l. The program was held in the Beit , referred to as “admas kodesh,” hallowed ground, which Dovid graced for almost 50 years from his seat at the mizrach wall, and where so many talmidim have studied over the years. The majority of the attendees weretalmidim of “Reb Dovid,” as he was affectionately known. Also present were many of the Roshei HaYeshiva as well as members of the Lifschitz family from Cleveland. President Richard M. Joel delivered greetings, and Rabbi Zevulun Charlop (‘54R), dean emeritus of RIETS, Rabbi Yitzchok Cohen (‘65R), Rabbi Benjamin Yudin (‘69R) and Rabbi (‘83R) recounted their fond memories and experiences both during their days as talmidim as well as during the many years since. Rabbi Ari Waxman (‘90R), r’am at Yeshivat Shaalvim, RIETS musmakh and grandson of Reb Dovid, closed the program reflecting on the close familial connection with the Yeshiva. A number of speakers reminisced about their years with Reb Dovid, as well as his rich history as a at RIETS, his years as Suvalker Rav in and the long-time president of Ezras Torah, one of the oldest Jewish charities. The common theme, in addition to Reb Dovid’s lomdus and Torah mastery, was his warmth, presence and charisma as well as his ongoing concern for the welfare of his many, many talmidim long Rabbi Benjamin Blech is presented with an award by RIETS after they left his classroom. A rousing rendition of his signaturenigun , Acting Dean Rabbi Menachem Penner “Tzavey!” brought the event to a close. n

3 CHAVRUSA • ADAR II 5774 News Upholding the Art of Chazanut

Once a week for the past seven years, New York State Supreme Court Justice Martin Schulman has made the trip from his courthouse chambers in Jamaica, Queens to Yeshiva University’s Philip and School of Jewish Music on YU’s Washington Heights Wilf Campus. Joined in a classroom by students who run the gamut from undergraduates and aspiring to doctors, lawyers, security guards and bus drivers, Schulman studies nusach ha-tefillah and the theories, music and techniques of chazanut, a critical Jewish skill that is fast being forgotten. But it’s not just about singing: Cantor Joseph Malovany provides instruction to Judge Martin Schulman at its core, chazanut is about channeling the voice of a community. since 1985. “Its holistic curriculum to grounded in the basics: there’s no That skill is the main emphasis at includes not only courses in nusach ha- other place to learn it. “In the old days, Belz, a division of RIETS. Traditionally, tefilla and chazanut, but also in biblical people knew how to daven just by coming cantors have played a central role cantillation, blowing, choral and to the and listening to the in synagogue life, where their instrumental ensemble, congregational baalei tefillah,” he said. “That generation responsibilities often included much singing and group leading—all designed has dwindled and gone. People don’t have more than the soulful and resonant to give cantors a full appreciation for their that knowledge anymore.” chanting of prayer services in accordance role in their communities and all the skills That’s one of the reasons Schulman with communal custom for which they they need to fulfill it.” began attending classes at Belz seven years are usually known, such as teaching Over the last few years, however, ago. “A lot of people who learn in so much children to read Hebrew or acting as cantors and rabbis in training have been depth about everything else in a scribe. In recent decades, however, joined at the Belz school by another kind don’t know basic nusach anymore,” he their presence in shuls across the United of student—the layman, like Schulman, said. “But I believe tefillah has to be done States has become increasingly rare, seeking to keep the cantorial tradition in a specific way. Thenusach that we’ve often limited to conducting services at alive. inherited conveys not only the spirit of special times such as the upcoming High “In any classroom, we have students the particular prayers but also of the day Holidays, as fewer and fewer communities who take our courses because they want on which they’re said.” have the resources to employ a cantor to go into the field, undergraduates or Zachary Bienenfeld, a recent Yeshiva full time. With this change, the art of semikha students looking to round out College graduate now working as a chazanut, its history and its customs are their education, and also the baaleh technology analyst at JP Morgan Chase, at risk of being lost to time, as fewer and batim who want to contribute to the shul agreed. As a student, he began taking fewer people are trained for the role. davening,” said Beer. “They may come to classes at Belz not with a cantorial career “Belz seeks to preserve Jewish us because they want to be able to daven in mind, but with the goal of being able musical tradition and counter the properly for the amud for their parents’ to better lead prayer services. Bienenfeld shortage of professionally educated yahrtzeits or even just to know a basic so enjoyed the classes he took as an cantors and ba’alei tefillah by providing mincha, maariv or shacharit, and they undergraduate that he is continuing courses in every aspect of usually end up taking it very seriously.” them this semester, post-graduation. He and music to prepare students to serve According to Beer, there’s a good has also begun leading High Holidays communities across the world,” said reason even professionals not interested services in the Fleetwood Synagogue in Cantor Bernard Beer, the school’s director in a cantorial career are coming to Belz Mount Vernon, NY, where he follows

4 CHAVRUSA • ADAR II 5774 News the Belz nusach to the note. “Thenusach Schwezoff initially came to the replicates the European style of davening to study at Yeshiva Shaarei and hearing it takes you back to the roots Torah in Rockland County, NY, but he of your Jewish identity in Europe,” he was also searching for a place to learn said. “Belz is the only school in America nusach and real cantorial techniques to that teaches it—that teaches the musical take back to his shul in Hungary. When component which most people really he discovered Belz, he was ecstatic. don’t know about.” “What’s wonderful about the Belz That European style isn’t the only school is that anyone can give you a CD one offered at Belz. Students can also take at a Jewish bookstore about nusach, any Sephardic tefillah, classes that samples cantor could record davening for you, different styles of davening from around but to get the spirit and understanding the world, and a course about the history of how to stand there in front of Hashem of Jewish music and prayer. and have wonderful people who want According to Cantor Beer, that history you to help them push through the gates Yeshiva College graduate Zachary Bienenfeld has undergone a sea change over the last to Hashem and become more involved continues his studies at Belz century. “A cantor prays on behalf of the in the davening—that’s what Belz teaches congregation—his goal is to bring their you,” Schwezoff said. “They impress upon years after we’d studied together, he prayers to heaven on the wings of his you what it means to be a tzibor, remembered the way I davened so well song,” Beer said. “But the responsibility how someone in that role must feel and that he was able to come up to me and now is also to inspire the people, to get behave, understanding the meaning and say, ‘I think you should sing this piece them to sing along.” He believes that trend background of the prayer.” for the group and show them how you began 40 to 50 years ago, when individual Schwezoff is now a full-time cantor worked on it in Belz. It is a very personal participation became more important to in one of the largest communities in school that way—they really know communities; before that, many shuls had Budapest, where his duties include what fits you best and always seek your choirs that sang along instead. everything from teaching young children professional and spiritual growth.” Rabbi David Schwezoff, a native to read Hebrew to translating new In Schulman’s case, that meant of Budapest, Hungary, takes the siddurim and machzorim into Hungarian. adapting a special niggun passed on from responsibility to move others with his Schwezoff also recently launched a Malovany’s own teacher, Shlomo Ravitch, davening especially seriously. “Even European Cantors Association, where he which Schulman uses to daven during my high school years I was asked is an executive member. “[Distinguished Mussaf for his mother’s yahrtzeit each year. to daven for the amud quite frequently, Professor of Liturgical Music] Cantor “Instead of just using the general nusach, since not many people in my community Joseph Malovany came to the launch of I’m able to incorporate certain things from knew how to do it,” he said. “But when I our organization and gave a few classes,” my Belz classes to make the davening do something, I want to do it my best.” he recalled. “Even though it was a few meaningful,” he said. He also enjoys the diversity of his fellow classmates: “I may be a judge and 65 years old, but the camaraderie in the class, the mix of professionals like me and the college-age students who are there, really brings me back to my own college experience.” At the end of the day, however, they’re all there for the same reason. “When people walk into a synagogue they expect to hear a certain sound, and that sound is an aura that envelopes them in a particular holiday, event or prayer,” said Cantor Sherwood Goffin, outreach coordinator at Belz. “Our job here is

Rabbi David Schwezoff and Cantor Bernard Beer to uphold the musical heritage of our synagogue and our people.” n

5 CHAVRUSA • ADAR II 5774 News Sephardic Community Thrives on Campus

The Sephardic Studies Program at ago and now we have an opportunity to YU, co-founded by Dr. Herbert C. do better than we’ve ever done before.” Dobrinsky (‘57R), YU vice president of Over the last few years, demographics university affairs, started out with just have evolved, with a dramatic increase seven students in 1964 and has steadily in the number of Sephardic students flourished and expanded over the last attending Orthodox day schools that five decades. Today, the Sephardic serve as primary feeders to YU. “The Community Program (SCP) boasts more synergies are potentially explosive as than 300 undergraduate men and women the number of Sephardic students at YU and serves an additional 100 graduate grows,” said Rabbi Tessone. “There was students, including a dozen rabbinical a sense that these incoming Sephardic students. students needed to feel as if they had a At the time, “we didn’t feel satisfied home at YU, where they would be able to that the Sephardic students who came grow not just academically, but also on a to YU left with the necessary skills and religious, cultural and spiritual level. We didn’t benefit to the maximum in terms of want to attract them to YU—students learning about their own traditions,” said who we train to become future leaders Dobrinsky. of the Sephardic world—and give them That is no longer the case. “The the feeling that they could have a great Rabbi , Rosh Yeshiva, RIETS Sephardic world is multifaceted and YU experience here at Yeshiva.” is the only place in North America that To augment these efforts, Rabbi cultural environment of the Sephardic has such diversity of Sephardic students Simon Basalely (‘10R) was recently community. and makes a concerted effort to educate appointed as the Edmond J. Safra Sgan “I feel privileged to work with a them in both secular and , Mashgiach for the Sephardic campus group of such wonderful, energetic while giving special appreciation to their community at YU, a newly established students, aspiring to learn and to take Sephardic heritage,” said Rabbi Moshe position. He serves as a role model and advantage of the opportunities to further Tessone (‘05R), the program’s director mentor for students, running minyanim connect with their heritage,” said Rabbi since 2001 and a faculty member at YU in the Sephardic Beit Midrash and Basalely, a graduate of Yeshiva College, and its Philip and Sarah Belz School coordinating Shabbat events, Torah Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish of Jewish Music. “This began with Dr. lectures and other programs that enhance Education and Administration, RIETS Dobrinsky’s vision nearly a half century and lend warmth to the religious and and the Beren Elyon. “We are planning an on-campus Shabbaton for students to spend Shabbat together enjoying Sephardic foods and singing Sephardic pizmonim immersed in the Sephardic liturgical tradition, while at the same time, spending Shabbat in their Yeshiva.” Rabbi Basalely is already making a positive impact in his new role. “Rabbi Basalely is the person who students can turn to after classroom hours, to help give them the spiritual and religious guidance, that they need beyond academics,” said Rabbi Simon Basalely, the Edmond J. Safra Sgan Mashgiach for the Sephardic community, learns with Rabbi Tessone said. “He is there for students in the Sephardic Beit Midrash students in the capacity of a campus

6 CHAVRUSA • ADAR II 5774 News rabbi to provide hashgacha ruchanit on an ongoing basis. Our goal is to make the Sephardic Beit Midrash a warm spiritual haven right here on campus.” For Charles Saka, a sophomore at the Sy majoring in business management, some highlights of the SCP include the weekly Sephardic Pizmonim Club and his daily shiur with Rabbi Eliyahu Ben Haim, Sephardic Rosh Yeshiva Chairholder of the Maxwell R. Maybaum Chair in Talmud and Sephardic Halakhic Codes. “Rabbi Tessone has elevated the Sephardic life on campus with his weekly Sephardic Community Program celebrated the dedication of a new , donated by Mr. Benjamin M. Aminoff in memory of his nephew Mr. Sam Aminoff a”h course in Sephardic hazzanut,” said Saka. “Rabbi Basalely has also been a great source of daily inspiration and spirituality and nightly shiurim in the Sephardic Bet with our minyanim and his divrei Torah Midrash.” n RIETS Musmakh Rabbi Ephraim Meth Celebrates Siyum HaShas at YU

The new semester is underway at and the availability of such great Roshei Yeshiva University—and it began with Yeshiva and chaveirim anywhere else. This the celebration of a milestone in Torah is a wonderful place to learn and I grew a learning. tremendous amount here.” Rabbi Ephraim Meth, a 2012 Especially influential to Rabbi graduate of YU’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Meth’s learning have been Rabbi Michael Theological Seminary who continues his Rosensweig, Rosh Yeshiva and Nathan studies in the beit midrash as a RIETS and Perel Schupf Chair of Talmud at Kollel Fellow, shared his most recent RIETS, and Rabbi , completion of Shas with the entire YU Rosh Yeshiva at RIETS. “I owe a lot to community at a siyum in the beit midrash them in terms of my methodology and of the Jacob and Dreizel Glueck Center curriculum—they were formational,” said for Jewish Studies on January 22. Rabbi Meth. Rabbi Meth has led a “On behalf of the entire Yeshiva, I shiur as well as other shiurim at YU want to thank Rabbi Meth for setting and also authored three seforim on the tone for this new zman” said Rabbi Talmudic topics. He chose to celebrate Menachem Penner, acting dean of Rabbi Ephraim Meth his accomplishment at YU because of the RIETS, who spoke at the siyum. “There role the Yeshiva here has comprised in are no greater accomplishments than semester, it is even more special to be his learning growth and development. “I accomplishments in Torah learning. This able to do so at the beginning when the wanted to show other students how far is a testament to learning for learning’s accomplishments of one talmid can help you can come at Yeshiva,” he said. “I don’t sake. And while it is wonderful to be inspire so many others.” n think you get the warmth, the expertise able to celebrate a siyum at the end of a

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Educating the Educators

Rabbi Matan Wexler (‘10R), a sixth-grade teacher at the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County, believes that a great educator is never done learning. “My goal is to make a difference in , and I’m constantly looking for ways to grow and improve my craft, so I can have a positive impact on my students,” he said. With four years of classroom experience under his belt, Wexler was eager to learn of his acceptance to the Legacy Heritage YUTeach Fellowship, a program from Yeshiva University’s Institute for University-School Partnership (YU School Partnership), geared toward Judaic studies educators who have been teaching for at least two years and are looking to advance through unique professional development opportunities. with a disposition to growth and an The June conference allowed “It seemed like an ideal way to meet ability to reflect,” said Shira Heller, the Fellows to meet and bond over other teachers, see their perspectives program administrator at the YUSchool collaborative activities and discussions. and learn how they grapple with similar Partnership and coordinator of the “Learning from peers who are in the teaching challenges, while also gaining fellowship. trenches with you is invaluable,” said new skills and techniques to enhance my Most schools offer professional Rabbi Avrohom Drandoff, a teacher at own teaching,” said Wexler. And so far, development to their teachers, but may Columbus Torah Academy in Columbus, he’s been right. lack the resources to provide long-term , who has a master’s degree in At the end of June, Wexler, a graduate study opportunities. “Teachers want school counseling from Johns Hopkins of YU’s Sy Syms School of Business, to grow and are eager to participate in University. RIETS and the Azrieli Graduate School a forum to talk about their work,” said In the past, Drandoff participated in of Jewish Education and Administration, Heller. “The fellowship is designed to the YU Lead Leadership Development joined 13 other teachers at the Glen Cove give teachers the opportunity to do in- program, and was anticipating a similarly Mansion on Long Island for a two-day depth learning on a topic of their choice, positive experience this time around. “I conference hosted for the Fellows by the develop a cohort of like-minded teachers learned an enormous amount and my YU School Partnership. and create a supportive network of people hope for the YUTeach Fellowship is to The inaugural cohort includes dedicated to both their own growth and have the unique opportunity to compare educators of varying backgrounds and facilitating the growth of their peers.” notes with fellow teachers who are experience who teach at over a dozen During the year, Fellows will equally as ambitious and driven as I am to Jewish day schools and high schools in complete classes online, taught and raise the bar of Judaic studies throughout eight states around the county, and were facilitated by experts in the field. They the country.” each nominated for the fellowship by can choose to enroll in either a 30-week Dr. John D’Auria, a former school an administrator from their respective certificate program or a series of shorter superintendent and current president of schools. modules on varied topics, including Teachers21, delivered the conference’s “In selecting our Fellows, we differentiated instruction, blended keynote address, “Developing a Growth were looking for teachers who are learning, educational technology and Mindset,” an interactive discussion about already successful and want to excel, behavior support. teaching children to develop resilience

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when facing a challenge. through dilemmas with people I just met again in June. They will also participate One activity required the Fellows to was an incredible learning experience in Google Hangout group discussions, work together in small groups to design a for me. Even now, days after, I am still where they will continue to help each model lesson. Another component of the thinking about some of the issues raised other work through their dilemmas of program was a discussion of dilemmas during our time together.” practice. Other parts of the program will of practice—a teaching challenge one Other Fellows appreciated the allow Fellows to observe other teachers has encountered—which the Fellows support they received when sharing their throughout the year and to record and submitted before the conference and teaching challenges. “There was a real watch videos of themselves teaching. later presented to the cohort to receive sense of camaraderie among the Fellows, “After completing the program, suggestions on how to best resolve the stemming from our mutual desire to grow Fellows will be poised to serve as teacher issue. as teachers, and I gained a lot of chizuk leaders—prepared to impact the field and “I am blown away by how much I was from knowing that I am not alone in act as catalysts of innovation and progress able to take in during our time together,” many of my struggles,” said Liora Wittlin, within their schools,” said Heller. “The said Fellow Jaclyn Sova, an alumna of a Stern graduate who now teaches at the fellowship paves the way for teachers to and Azrieli, Margolin Hebrew Academy in Memphis, cultivate their own vision of educational who teaches at the Stella K. Tenn. excellence and gives them the framework High School for Girls in Hewlett Bay In addition to the June meeting, the and support to actualize that vision.” n Park, NY. “Being able to plan lessons Fellows will convene two more times with teachers I barely knew and working during the year; in March and once

RIETS Launches Multi-Volume Series on

RIETS launches its hashkafah series international authority in both Jewish with the publication of Rabbi J. David law and Jewish thought, and our students Bleich’s work, The Philosophical Quest of are privileged to be the beneficiaries of Philosophy, Ethics, Law and Halakhah, a his wisdom and erudition,” said Rabbi collection of essays on a variety of topics (‘02R), RIETS Rosh Yeshiva, relating to Jewish philosophical thought. director of the RIETS Press and Beth In the author’s preface, Rabbi Din of the Rabbinical Council. Bleich, who serves as a Rosh Yeshiva and “We are exceedingly grateful to Rabbi the Rosh Kollel Le-Hora’ah at RIETS, Bleich for sharing his first-rate scholarship professor of law at the Benjamin N. in Jewish philosophy with the broader Cardozo School of Law, and Herbert and community. It is our hope that his clear Florence Tenzer Professor of Law and and cogent manner of presentation will Ethics at Yeshiva University, explains that edify scholars and laypeople alike.” the essays run the gamut, highlighting the The RIETS Hashkafah Series different value-driven principles of faith includes several volumes authored by that define the essence of Jewish belief, RIETS Roshei Yeshiva that will present philosophical concepts reflected in the detailed and sophisticated analysis and halachic system, Jewish responsibilities elucidation of the principles of Jewish in a non-Jewish society as well as ethical belief. values as they relate to resolution of “The practice of Judaism is premised societal problems. upon its foundational creeds, and the “Rabbi Bleich is recognized as an belief system of Judaism is given an

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audible voice through the observance of innovative and substantial joint projects and two volumes of the Mitokh Ha- the commandments of the Torah. It is a undertaken by Yeshiva University and series, a collection of original essays on fitting expression of Yeshiva University’s Koren Publishers . Over the last the parashiyot and haftarot authored by mission that with the inauguration of this three years, the partnership has released rabbis and from every division new series, we now present multi-volume a 20th anniversary edition of Rabbi Dr. of Yeshiva University. expressions of studies of both realms in Norman Lamm’s (‘51R) masterwork, The next volume of the tandem,” said Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman ; the first volume of contemporary Jewish law series is due (‘98R), executive editor of the RIETS Rabbi Lamm’s Derashot LeDorot out in early 2014, and additional volumes Press. series; a multi-volume set on topics of of the RIETS Hashkafah Series are The RIETS Hashkafah Series is the contemporary Jewish law, authored by scheduled to follow in late 2014. n newest addition to the growing list of Yeshiva University’s Roshei Yeshiva;

Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future: Making a Difference in the Community

Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish which was hosted in Miami Beach. working with underprivileged youth Future supports rabbinic leaders with an In November, over 100 in Israel, to rebuilding homes in the array of conferences, seminars and online participated in this year’s Rebbetzin wake of Hurricane Sandy, to engaging programming. Our online platform, Esther Rosenblatt Yarchei Kallah. In lay leaders throughout the country to rabbanan.org serves nearly 1,300 rabbis addition to continuing education and help strengthen their shuls, schools and around the world, providing a wealth support for the rabbinate, Center for communities. of resources for drashot, shiurim and to the Jewish Future programs around At Counterpoint Winter Camp more effectively lead their communities. the country and the world promote (January ’14), 38 students spent their Recently, 35 rabbis from around the leadership development and community winter break running English and art country attended our Yarchei Kallah engagement. These programs range from programming in development towns

Winter Service Mission 2012, Kharkov, Jewish Life Coast-to-Coast, 2014

10 CHAVRUSA • ADAR II 5774 News in the Negev. Having just completed its ninth year, Counterpoint Israel has grown to include four schools, working in conjunction with local Israeli municipalities and the Israeli Ministry of Education to increase self-esteem and teach English language to 850 underprivileged youth. Working in the Ukraine with students ages 16 to 26, the Service Learning Mission emphasized the importance of what it means to be Jewish in the 21st century. This program (January ’14), made up of 20 YU students, imparted a to 60 communities across North America school and YU, they can quickly build first-hand understanding of the welfare to participate in the Schreiber Torah insight and experience to propel their challenges and identity struggles facing Tours this past Simchat Torah, bringing careers forward as Jewish educators. the Jewish community of Kharkov, Torah learning and joyful spirit to small Two hundred participants attended Ukraine following the collapse of the communities; nearly the same number of the Medical Ethics Society Conference Soviet Union. students will be sent on Torah Tours to in October 2013. The Medical Ethics Closer to home, 20 YU students many of these communities for . Society is a student organization participated in the Sandy Relief Mission In the summer of 2014, approximately mentored and incubated in the CJF. (January ’14) with NECHAMA, a 30 students will participate in Summer And finally, the Community disaster relief organization, in a four-day Learning and Internship Programs across Leadership Initiative (CLI), now in its mission to Long Island rebuilding homes. the country, where they will take part second year, engages 17 talented lay Jewish Life Coast-to-Coast (January in a variety of internships during the leaders from nine Midwestern cities ’14) assisted students in developing their day and infuse their respective Jewish including Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, own educational philosophy. During communities with Torah learning at . Denver, Des Moines, Detroit, Kansas this program, 24 students traveled to The communities provide internship City, KS, Milwaukee and Omaha, who Cleveland, Columbus, Toledo and opportunities in venues ranging from will be engaging in intense leadership Detroit for 10 days to learn about Jewish prestigious medical facilities to business development and training over a six- communal work, rabbinic leadership technology companies. month period. The group meets at YU for and education. The students ran The 27 semikha students in our two days in the winter and two days in the educational programs in the local day School Kollel Fellowship spend a spring, while meeting virtually each week schools and interacted with community year immersed in a paid fellowship in an online environment and applying klei and lay kodesh. The experience was opportunity utilizing YU’s partnership their skills to strengthen their local shuls, transformative and informative, and many with local Jewish schools, exploring schools and communities. n of these students have decided to now the field of Jewish education. By giving To learn more about these programs, pursue careers in avodat hakodesh. students a true classroom experience, visit: www.yu.edu/cjf. Approximately 300 students traveled complete with mentorship from both the

“The Yarchei Kallah was an incredible experience that allowed us to reconnect with Rebbeim and Chaverim, learn from one another and re-energize ourselves. We are blessed to have a Yeshiva, Rebbeim and mentors who stand by our side and are there to support us when we are out in the field.” Rabbi Jay Weinstein (‘09R) Rabbi, Young Israel of East Brunswick

11 CHAVRUSA • ADAR II 5774 Yeshiva University-RIETS acknowledge the members of the Elef L’Mateh Society

Rabbi Elliot Aberbach Rabbi Adam Felsenthal Rabbi Fred Hyman Rabbi Abraham Rabbi Irwin Peyser z”l Rabbi Yechiel Shaff er Lakewood, NJ New York, NY New Haven, CT Lieberman Atlantic Beach, NY New York, NY Los Angeles, CA Rabbi Daniel Alter Rabbi Jay Fenster Rabbi David Israel Rabbi Yale Port Rabbi Evan Shore Denver, CO , NY Stamford, CT Rabbi Meir Lipschitz Teaneck, NJ Dewitt , NY Stony Brook, NY Rabbi Hayyim Angel Rabbi David Fine Rabbi Gedaliah Jaff e Rabbi Adir Posy Rabbi Andrew Sicklick New York, NY Modiin, Israel Edison, NJ Rabbi Eytan London Beverly Hills, CA Woodmere, NY Bronx, NY Rabbi Hyman Arbesfeld Rabbi Joel Finkelstein Rabbi Avery Joel Rabbi Mark Press Rabbi Danny Shulman Kew Gardens, NY Memphis, TN Cleveland, OH Rabbi Brooklyn, NY Philadelphia, PA New York, NY Rabbi Elli Ausubel Rabbi Daniel Friedman Rabbi Howard Joseph Rabbi Daniel Price Rabbi Nisson E. Shulman New York, NY Edmonton, Canada Montreal, QC Rabbi Asher Lopatin Passaic, NJ New York, NY Riverdale, NY Rabbi Shalom Baum Rabbi Aaron Fruchter Rabbi Josh Joseph Rabbi Myron Rakowitz Rabbi Shmuel Silber New Milford, NJ Belle Habor, NY Lawrence, NY Rabbi Marc Mandel Brooklyn, NY Baltimore, MD Newport, RI Rabbi Eitan Bendavid Rabbi Barry Gelman Rabbi Peter Kahn Rabbi Yona Reiss Rabbi New York, NY Houston, TX Brookline, MA Rabbi Abraham Mann Chicago, IL Bergenfi eld, NJ New York, NY Rabbi Julius Berman Rabbi Gershon C. Gewirtz Rabbi Milton Kain Rabbi Rabbi Chaim Strauchler Hillcrest, NY Brookline, MA Lawrence, NY Rabbi Leonard Matanky Efr at, Israel Toronto, Canada West Rogers Park, IL Rabbi Adam Berner Rabbi Yaakov Gibber Rabbi Alan Kalinsky Rabbi Ari Rockoff Rabbi Lawrence Teitelman New Milford, NJ Boca Raton, FL Los Angeles, CA Rabbi Daniel Mehlman West Hempstead, NY New Hyde Park, NY Lido Beach, NY Rabbi Binyamin Blau Rabbi Yaakov Glasser Rabbi Daniel Rockoff Rabbi Moshe D. Tendler Cleveland, OH Passaic, NJ Overland Park, KS Monsey, NY Rabbi Kenneth Brander Rabbi Ozer Glickman Rabbi Walter Rosenbaum Rabbi Perry Tirschwell Teaneck, NJ Teaneck, NJ Jerusalem, Israel Teaneck, NJ Rabbi Aaron Brody Rabbi Efrem Goldberg Rabbi Yitzchak Rabbi Kalman Topp Flushing, NY Boca Raton, FL Rosenblum Beverly Hills, CA West Hempstead, NY Rabbi Michael Broyde Rabbi Shraga Goldenhersh Rabbi Daniel Turkel , GA Baltimore, MD Rabbi Martin Rosenfeld Flushing, NY Fair Lawn, NJ Rabbi Ephraim Z. Rabbi Shmuel Goldin Rabbi Norman Buchwald Englewood, NJ Rabbi Azriel Rosner Avinoam Walles New York, NY Ramat Beit Shemesh, Israel Brooklyn, NY Rabbi Marvin H. Rabbi Zevulun Charlop Goldman Rabbi Sol Roth Rabbi Elchanan Weinbach Bronx, NY Silver Spring, MD New York, NY Philadelphia, PA Rabbi Abraham Cooper Rabbi Aaron Goldscheider Rabbi Shlomo Rybak Rabbi Jay Weinstein Los Angeles, CA Jerusalem, Israel Passaic, NJ East Brunswick, NJ Rabbi Judah Dardik Rabbi Sheldon Goldsmith Rabbi Benjamin Samuels Rabbi Elie Weissman Oakland, CA New York, NY Newton, MA Plainview, NY Rabbi Michael Davies Rabbi Rabbi Mark Karasick Rabbi Gary Menchel Rabbi Hershel Schachter Rabbi Yaakov Werblowsky Charleston, SC New York, NY Teaneck, NJ West Hempstead, NY New York, NY Passiac, NJ Rabbi Edward Davis Rabbi Jonathan Gross Rabbi Zev Karpel Rabbi Yaakov Mintz Rabbi Herschel Rabbi David Wilensky Hollywood, FL Omaha, NE Passaic, NJ Passaic, NJ Schacter z”l Allentown, PA Riverdale, NY Rabbi Herbert Dobrinsky Rabbi Kenneth Hain Rabbi Aaron R. Katz Rabbi Shalom Morris Rabbi Shimon Wolf Riverdale, NY Lawrence, NY Chicago, IL New York, NY Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter Kew Gardens, NY Teaneck, NJ Rabbi Ira Ebbin Rabbi Neil Hecht Rabbi Yaakov Kermaier Rabbi Jonathan Rabbi Howard Zack Merrick, NY Brookline, MA New York, NY Morgenstern Rabbi Fabian Schonfeld Columbus, OH Scarsdale, NY Flushing, NY Rabbi Simon Eckstein Rabbi Seth Zvi Herman Rabbi Barry Kislowicz Rabbi Eliezer Zwickler Jerusalem, Israel Mevaseret Zion, Israel Cleveland, OH Rabbi Elazar Muskin Rabbi Max N. Schreier West Orange, NJ Los Angeles, CA Brooklyn, NY Rabbi Zvi Engel Rabbi Basil Herring Rabbi Isaiah Koenigsberg Anonymous Skokie, IL New York, NY Flushing, NY Rabbi Moshe Neiss Rabbi Ronald Anonymous Riverdale, NY Rabbi Reuven Escott Rabbi Shlomo Hochberg Rabbi Jonah Kupietzky Schwarzberg Anonymous Bergenfi eld, NJ Jamaica Estates, NY New York, NY Rabbi Asher Oser Highland Park, NJ Anonymous Hong Kong Rabbi Elie Farkas Rabbi Jacob Hoenig Rabbi Norman Lamm Rabbi Ari Segal Sydney, Brooklyn, NY New York, NY Rabbi Marvin B. Pachino Los Angeles, CA Jerusalem, Israel Rabbi Tobias Feinerman Rabbi Barry Holzer Rabbi Eliezer Langer Rabbi Gershon Segal Yonkers, NY Woodmere, NY Austin, TX Rabbi Menachem Penner Newton, MA Holliswood, NY Rabbi Arnold Feldman Rabbi Emanuel Holzer Rabbi Zalman Levine Rabbi Sion Sett on Philadelphia, PA Flushing, NY Teaneck, NJ New York, NY

As of 3/7/2014 Rabbinic Alumni Celebrate the Chag HaSemikhah חג הסמיכה תשע”ד Chag HaSemikhah Convocation כ”ה אדר ב תשע”ד | Sunday, March 23, 2014 | Noon yu.edu/chag

Pre-Chag HaSemikhah Chomer LiDrush Conference Call Thursday, March 6, 2014 • 12:00 p.m. “The Impact & Importance of Talmud Torah, Our Yeshiva and Our Musmakhim” Presenters: Rabbi Hershel Schachter, Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff & Rabbi Menachem Penner

Special Lecture for all Rabbinic Alumni Wednesday, March 19, 2014 • 8 p.m. Shenk Shul (560 West 185th Street, New York, NY 10033) “Rabbinic Leadership in the 21st Century” Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Kressel and Ephrat Family University Professor of Jewish Thought, Yeshiva University

Celebrating the 30th and 40th Chag HaSemikhah Anniversary Groups Wednesday, March 19, 2014 • 6:30 p.m.

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RIETS Opening Shiur כ‘ אלול תשע”ג • August 26, 2013

Medical Ethics Society Annual Conference טז‘ חשון תשע”ד • October 20, 2013

Rebbetzin’s Yarchei Kallah ח‘ כסלו – ט‘ כסלו תשע”ד • November 11-12, 2013

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Pre- Tu B’shvat Mishmar with Rabbi Moshe Weinberger (’83R) ח‘ שבט תשע”ד • Israel • January 9, 2014

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17 CHAVRUSA • ADAR II 5774 Letter to Musmakhim

Distinguished Rabbinic Alumni:

As we celebrate the Chag HaSemikhah I thought it appropriate to address the newest chaveirim of RIETS Rabbinic Alumni, with a message I believe is relevant for all of us.

Byedidut,

Rabbi Kenneth Brander (‘86R) Vice President for University and Community Life David Mitzner Dean, Center for the Jewish Future Yeshiva University

s you mark this very auspicious between these two separate provinces. embrace of halachic and ethical norms occasion of your receiving your You will be spending much time and mores. semichah, I would like to wish in the domain of the reshut ha-yachid. While this paradigm may seem youA a mazal tov on behalf of all of us at Within the parameters of halacha, we contradictory, it is actually the dialectic RIETS and Yeshiva University. must be accommodating to the individual posture that is the sine qua non of This year the Yeshiva is studying who is in crisis or searching for a personal rabbinic leadership. Mesechet Shabbat. The Gemara discusses spiritual experience. And, sometimes in You are entering a world that prefers the idea of carrying between the reshut ha- order to insure the individual’s personal black and white to grey, texture and color; yachid and the reshut ha-rabim. A concept need, we need to make accommodations an Orthodox community that sometimes that emanates from this sugya is that the for the particular family or individual. may minimize the need to be sensitive private and the public domains represent This is necessary in order to effectuate in the private domain or is sometimes two different spheres, and the prohibition meaningful and appropriate change for no longer committed to the ideals of of carrying from one to the other involves particular members of your community. normative mesorah. May each of you be treating them as one domain. Yet while being accommodating blessed to engage in the leadership roles As you begin your personal journey in the private domain, there is another afforded to you with nuance and balance. as leaders, I invite you to recognize domain in which the community leader Please always know that we at the that there are both private and public must regularly engage: the public domain. Yeshiva, your rabbeim and community domains in community life. It will be your In this sphere, you will be called upon to professionals, will be available to help responsibility as a community leader— insure community standards that model you. We wish you much hatzlachah in whether as rav of a shul, head of a school, fidelity to ourmesorah and integrity your future endeavors. n chaplain in a hospital or the army, or as to ethics. Leaders must communicate, a lay leader—to negotiate and navigate through a consistent “body language,” an

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they assisted in the establishment of the Jerusalem branch of the . The majority emigrated from A Charge to the to the United States, where they served Semikha Graduates as the nucleus for the Brooklyn branch of Mir. Formally known as Mirrer Yeshiva Rabbi Dr. Aaron Central Institute, it began to function in 1946. After their initial adjustment to Rakeffet-Rothkoff (‘61R) Professor of , the American reality, many of the older Yeshiva University’s Caroline and students began to seek employment. Most Joseph S. Gruss Institute in Jerusalem accepted appointments to the faculties of the Jewish day schools, which were also referred to as yeshivot ketanot (junior yeshivot). This educational system was now entering a period of rapid expansion here is no more sacred calling is proceeded by an adjective, “The with the onset of the renaissance of in life than that of a rabbi. remnant of their scholars”? Why does on the post-World War Whether he is a pulpit spiritual the blessing stress the remnant of the II American scene. Two Mirrer émigrés leaderT or a in the classroom generation of yesteryear? It would have reached Yeshiva Salanter. Rabbi Gershon setting, the future of the Torah people been sufficient to simply state “and the Yankelewitz was my seventh-grade rebbe is enhanced by his accomplishments. scholars”! The Rav explained that the during the school year 1949-1950, while The Beit ha-Levi, Rabbi Yosef transmission of Torah and Tradition Rabbi Henoch Fishman was my rebbe Dovber Soloveichik, declared in the is linked to the intermingling of the for the eighth grade the next year. Both introduction to his volume of responsa generations. At all times there are Rabbis Fishman and Yankelewitz were literature that the Torah student is who strive to be righteous, pious, and sanctified by his studies. Parchment elders. They will only attain these noble becomes holy when the “written Torah” goals if they can study and observe At all times there are is inscribed upon it. Similarly, the the Torah gestalt of the previous era. student of the Oral Law is sanctified by This will link them to the “chain of Jews who strive to be its study. His very being is transformed tradition.” Only through the guidance righteous, pious, and into an expression of holiness. This of the “remnant of scholars” will they spark of sanctity must be kindled in our succeed in their quests. elders. Th ey will only students, disciples and congregants. I recall my own life experience In his eulogy for Rabbi Chaim with this unique “remnant.” In a recent att ain these noble goals Heller, my rebbe muvhak, Rabbi publication, I described this encounter if they can study and Joseph B. Soloveitchik questioned as a Bronx youngster studying at the formulation of a prayer which Yeshiva Salanter when it converged with observe the Torah we recite three times a day. In the the “Shanghai remnant” after World shemoneh esreh we beseech War II. gestalt of the previous the Almighty’s compassion for “the With the cessation of hostilities and righteous, the pious, the elders of the conclusion of war, the Mirrer disciples era. Th is will link Your people the house of Israel, and now confronted the vexing decision of them to the “chain of the remnant of their scholars.” The where to emigrate. A basic core chose to Rav asked why only the fourth noun join the emerging State of Israel where tradition.”

Th e author would like to express gratitude to Mrs. Cheri Levy, Student Liaison, S. Daniel Abraham Israel Program and the RIETS Israel Kollel, for help in preparing the manuscript for publication.

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subsequently to join the Talmudic faculty the Mussar movement, which stressed of Yeshiva University. personal character development and The Salanter youngsters now came faultlessness. A sincere yeshiva student face-to-face with representatives of the must be the master of his appetites and Lithuanian Torah world. We did not desires. One of the tangible methods of speak the same language and our frames perfecting this mindset was to hone the of reference were wildly dissimilar. English proficiency to pass over the last mouthful was our lingua franca, while our mentors of sweet desserts. My rebbe and mentor continued to communicate in the had internalized these teachings and tongue. We were masters of baseball lore, was the embodiment of the Lithuanian while our new teachers had never even Mussar movement. His impact on me seen the inside of Yankee Stadium. Yet was incalculable. His conduct revealed our hearts and souls met. We sensed the a majestic world to a Bronx boy who breath of the eternal Jewish saga in their previously knew only the aspirations manner and lifestyle. Perhaps the Mirrer and visions of the American dream. graduates also saw beyond our American While I subsequently continued to finish veneer. They discerned that our souls my desserts, I have never forgotten the Rabbi Henoch Fishman zt”l were seeking sanctity and commitment symbolism and message inherent in Rabbi to our people and heritage. We were Fishman’s actions. aware that our teachers had survived the The Mirrer teachers also added a We were masters of war and were from Shanghai. At times new breadth of view to our Talmudic our youthful minds were confused as to studies. The latter was now the dominant baseball lore, while their true origins. Was the town of Mir portion of our Judaic studies. It was no also in ? Our playful imaginations longer just another subject but rather our new teachers were convinced that they even resembled the essence and crux of our curriculum. Chinamen in their facial characteristics. It was infused with spirituality and not had never even seen What was certain was that these just academic scholarship. Our rebbeim faculty members were vastly different from tantalized us with anecdotes about the the inside of Yankee all our previous educators. The Mirrer town of Mir and its inhabitants. We could Stadium. Yet our were pious rabbinical scholars whose hardly believe their description of the Mir entire beings were permeated with the being as crowded on a simple hearts and souls met. spirit of the Lithuanian Torah civilization. Wednesday night for evening Ma’ariv Our relationships went beyond the prayer as on eve for the Kol We sensed the breath classroom. Rabbi Henoch Fishman Nidrei service. As American youngsters resided in the Bronx near the yeshiva. we could hardly believe our ears, since we of the eternal Jewish Many times I walked over to his home in could only identify with our empty shuls time for dessert at the conclusion of the during the week and mob scenes on the saga in their manner Friday night meal. I soon noticed that my . Decades later I finally and lifestyle. teacher never finished the last morsel of unquestionably accepted this description his wife’s delicious cake. I deduced that of Mir since I encountered the identical this was intentional and not simply by situation in Jerusalem. Almost everyone in chance. I finally got up the nerve to ask the Holy City who recited the Kol Nidrei honesty. Our graduation from Salanter Rabbi Fishman why he never completely prayer also participated in the daily was preceded by the class ordering ate his dessert. His answer transported me Ma’ariv services. a uniform autograph album with into a new world of nobility of character. Another unique characteristic of my the Salanter logo on the cover. Each Mir Yeshiva followed the teachings of Mirrer mentors was their intellectual student garnered greetings from his

20 CHAVRUSA • ADAR II 5774 Divrei Chizuk friends, classmates and teachers. Most received their basic Talmudic education Oheb Zedek Congregation, Dr. Henry recorded an inane but sweet-sounding at the Yeshiva. The press called attention Pereira Mendes of the host synagogue, and message. This was not possible for Rabbi to the “reorganized Yeshiva” where “for Mordecai Hirschsprung, the valedictorian. Fishman. I probably had expressed a the first time in the history of American Revel was the center of attention as the haughty attitude due to some high grade Jewry the semicha had been conferred reorganized Yeshiva offered its “firstfruits” I achieved. He left me with a message upon American rabbinical students.” to America Jewry. On , March 16, that is as valid today as when my rebbe The Judisches Tageblatt declared: “From a week before the public convocation, he penned it on January 15, 1951. He wrote: out of America shall go forth Torah,” as invited the five graduates to his home for “Remember the words of our sages in Judah Damesek, Sol B. Freedman, the Purim seudah. Around the beautifully Ethics of the Fathers (3:9) that anyone Fuhrman, Mordecai Hirschsprung, and set table and lavish repast prepared by his whose wisdom precedes his fear of sin, Aryeh Ralbag were ordained. Particular wife, Revel enthusiastically led his pupils his wisdom will not endure.” (Aaron attention centered on Freedman, for he in song and dance. Arm in arm, they Rakeffet-Rothkoff, From Washington had previously received the L.L.B. and circled the table singing the refrain from Avenue to Washington Street [Jerusalem: M.A. degrees and was the first American- the Sabbath liturgy: “Vtaher…Libenu— Gefen Publishing House and OU Press, born graduate of the Yeshiva. Purify our hearts to serve Thee sincerely.” 2011], pp.29-31.) An Orthodox monthly, The Jewish (Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff, : Our Mirrer faculty members were Forum of New York, stated editorially Builder of American Jewish Orthodoxy, truly the “remnant” that survived. that the new rabbis, “equipped with a vast Third Edition, [Jerusalem: Feldheim They enhanced our association with and intimate knowledge of the Torah in Publishers, 2000] pp. 51-52.) the immediate past of the Jewish its broadest connotation, and possessed of While we celebrate the next saga. Likewise, as rabbis, teachers and a real modern education,” would succeed milestone in the annals of the Yeshiva, educators, we must strive to inspire our with both the un-Americanized and the it is incumbent upon us to emulate contemporaries with the ongoing Torah already Americanized Jews. They were our forebears. Following the way of life. not only “Orthodox rabbis in the full of Purim, the Bible stated that “they With the approach of the 2014 meaning of the term, but American rabbis confirmed and accepted” (Esther 9:27). Chag HaSemikhah, it is appropriate as well.” They were the type of rabbis, Our sages explain that the Jewish that we recall the initial such event who, while thoroughly American would nation confirmed what they had long at the Yeshiva. Ninety-five years ago, not embark upon compromise, nor would ago accepted at Mount Sinai (Shevuot, Rabbi Dr. Bernard Revel had succeeded they seek to create a code of their own. 39a). Similarly we must intensify our in reorganizing the nascent Rabbi Isaac The editorial concluded by declaring that dedication and commitment in our Elchanan Theological Seminary. The the graduation “is an event of more than eternal march before the Almighty and remnant of Eastern Europe had finally local and temporal significance. It is an humankind. n become a force on the American scene. important historical event in the life of our Thus was this Chag HaSemikhah people in this country.” described: Revel sat at the head of the crowd On March 23, 1919, the twenty- which filled every seat and overflowed into third anniversary of the death of Rabbi the aisles of the Spanish and Portuguese Isaac Elchanan Spektor, Revel led the Synagogue of New York for the semicha Yeshiva in celebration of the granting of convocation. Here they listened to rabbinical ordination, semicha, to the first addresses by Rabbis Moses Margolies five graduates trained entirely under the and Shalom Jaffe, the president and new program of study. Up to that time vice–president of the Agudat Harabanim, the students ordained at the Yeshiva had whose committee joined with the Yeshiva received the greater part of their rabbinic in ordaining the graduates. Talks were training in European yeshivot. These also delivered by Dr. Phillip Klein, were the first graduates who had actually spiritual leader of New York’s Hungarian

21 CHAVRUSA • ADAR II 5774 The Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies invites you to a book signing and lecture

Bernard Revel: Builder of American Orthodoxy

by Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff

Rabbi Rakeffet is professor of rabbinic literature at Yeshiva University’s Caroline and Joseph S. Gruss Institute in Jerusalem. He is a noted scholar, author and teacher who has taught thousands of students in more than a half-century of teaching. His published volumes include The Silver Era: Rabbi and His Generation (1982) and The Rav: The World of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, 2 volumes (1999). His book, Bernard Revel: Builder of American Orthodoxy, which emerged out of his doctoral dissertation at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, has been re-issued by the OU Press with a new introduction by Mordecai D. Katz, Esq., chairman of the Revel Board of Overseers. It is a fascinating chronicle of an immigrant Talmudic scholar who set forth a vision for a combined American college and yeshiva education that would mold multiple generations of rabbinic leaders and an observant Jewry capable of interacting with society at large.

Please join us in celebrating this event with a lecture and book signing by the author.

Sunday, May 4, 2014 9:30 a.m. This event, sponsored by the Dr. Monique and Mordecai D. Katz Endowed Lecture Fund, is presented in cooperation with the Center for the Jewish Future’s Abraham Arbesfeld Kollel Yom Rishon and its Millie Arbesfeld Midreshet Yom Rishon. David H. Zysman Hall Lamport Auditorium Additional sponsorships for this event are available. For information, please email Rabbi 2540 Amsterdam Avenue Ari Rockoff at [email protected] or call 212.960.5400, ext. 6168. New York, NY 10033 Support from generous sponsors will enable Revel to initiate programs that promote Parking available in the YU lot (E) on Jewish scholarship and underscore its relevance for the broader Jewish community. Amsterdam Avenue and 183rd Street

www.yu.edu/revel Feature From the Dean’s Office An Interview with Rabbi Menachem Penner (‘95R)

Rabbi Menachem Penner is acting dean of RIETS and the Men’s Undergraduate Torah Studies programs at Yeshiva University. Rabbi Penner also serves as the spiritual leader of the Young Israel of Holliswood in Queens, a position he has proudly held since 1996. Rabbi Penner received his semikha from RIETS in 1994 and his BA from Yeshiva College in 1991. The parent of a child with special needs, he speaks across the country on issues of children with disabilities.

CHAVRUSA: Tell us about your formally in a number of different venues professional background, and what specific including various high schools in the New experiences helped you prepare for this new York area. role? I think that a lot of these experiences have helped guide me as I assume my I’ve been working with the wonderful new role at Yeshiva. Both communities talmidim at RIETS for 12 years. I came to that I’ve worked with, Lincoln Square YU to provide professional advisement Synagogue and Holliswood, Queens, are to semikha students and to develop a top- truly exceptional kehillot that are focused notch professional training program. As on spiritual growth and the centrality the years went on I became more involved of Talmud Torah. In both shuls I’ve in the semikha program itself—and been blessed with a membership that is eventually became involved in the yeshiva growth-oriented and Jews who wanted to as a whole. I had the honor of serving for develop a substantive relationship with Rabbi Menachem Penner (‘95R) five years with Rabbi Yona Reiss ‘02R in the Rebono shel Olam. I have, through various capacities, including associate them, been given a chance to understand this community, like all communities, dean. I now serve as the acting dean of what can be done in our communities. includes individuals with very different RIETS. One of the most important things needs. I think that in many ways the For the past 18 years I have also that you learn from the community Yeshiva is like a very big “shul,” with a served my special kehillah in Queens— rabbinate is that any organization or huge membership, a phenomenal level of the Young Israel of Holliswood. institution comes down to the individuals Talmud Torah and real people with real Previously, I held the positions of who make up that entity. YU/RIETS is challenges and real successes. assistant rabbi and then acting rabbi a community, and is not just a school. A Before I entered the pulpit rabbinate, of the Lincoln Square Synagogue in school operates during certain hours of I created programs for NCSY and I think . I founded an on-campus the day. But the Yeshiva is 24/7—and that many of the experiences I had in learning program at Queens College includes Shabbatot, very late nights, NCSY are relevant in trying to inspire called “Ateret” for young women on learning times and down times. And secular college campuses and I’ve taught individuals at the college and post-

23 CHAVRUSA • ADAR II 5774 Feature college levels. Obviously the methods CHAVRUSA: Where do you draw time with my older children (Elisheva are somewhat different when working inspiration from and what excites you about is in Stern College, and my boys will be within an educational setting and not in this new role? coming—at some point—back from an experiential setting and with adults Israel to learn at YU) or that we join the rather than school-age children. That said, That is a pretty easy question to answer. talmidim for beautiful Shabbatot at YU, or an emphasis on ruchniyut is important in I draw my inspiration from watching it means that my rebbeim, Roshei Yeshiva every Jewish setting, and certainly in our the talmidim— watching them succeed, and mashgichim have now become, in a Yeshiva. watching them grow, watching them way, my colleagues, the greater kesher to Teaching students on the high sing at a tish and then return to the Yeshiva is one that enhances our lives on school and college level has also helped beit midrash, watching them securing many levels. me understand where our talmidim are positions in communities. I am driven coming from. Most importantly, I think to see the Yeshiva succeed; that is what CHAVRUSA: What memories do you have that my experiences at YU over the past keeps me going. It is the best thanks that of your time studying in RIETS, and how is decade and on other college campuses anyone can really get in any position; RIETS different now than when you were a have helped me understand how critical to see hatzlachah in the institution they talmid here? work for. the years are between returning from RIETS is a much different Yeshiva then Israel and leaving the college setting. The CHAVRUSA: How do your wife and the one I remember. Baruch Hashem, reality is that many of the students will children feel about your new position? the Roshei Yeshiva that I had the zechut make some of the biggest decisions of to learn with are still teaching and have their lives, and truly develop who they My wife Adeena, (née Schonbach SC robust shiurim. However, the intensity are going to be, in the years between ‘90), and family are, understandably, a of the batei midrash is altogether their years in Israel and their graduation little wary about how much responsibility different. There has,Baruch Hashem, from college. Many of the decisions my new role entails. They know that been tremendous growth in terms of that are going to steer a person’s life are I tend to give positions like these my and in the number of serious made between the ages of 19 and 22— heart and soul. But they are excited as fellows that are in the Yeshiva. and certainly, for those who continue well. There are few similar opportunities There have also been significant to learn for semikha—between 19 and to help the Jewish community of the changes in the professional training for 25. Our goal at Yeshiva is to help mold Diaspora so significantly. They also like the future rabbanim. I left the Yeshiva our talmidim and our future rabbanim the fact that we are even more connected with very little knowledge of what I was during the most important years of their to Yeshiva life. Whether that means I about to see in the community. The development. personally get to spend a little more level of training the talmidim receive

“One of the transformative elements of my years in RIETS was the quality of my peers. At times, I would scan the beit midrash and marvel at the collective potential power of the RIETS students due to their embodiment of scholarship, idealism, piety and activism. I feel truly blessed to be part of such a group.” Rabbi Yosef Bronstein (‘12R) Instructor of Jewish Philosophy, Issac Breuer College of Hebraic Studies, Wexner Kollel Elyon Fellow and doctoral candidate in Talmudic studies at Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies

24 CHAVRUSA • ADAR II 5774 Feature today, in terms of pastoral psychology, speak to and can inspire many different I would love to see a much greater public speaking, practical rabbinics and young men at many different levels and connection between the rabbinic more, is truly extraordinary. They get to with different paths of connecting to alumni and the Yeshiva, on many levels. experience community challenges first Hashem. We need to grow the Yeshiva at Certainly the Yeshiva continues to hand—through field visits, role playing the highest levels of Torah Scholarship, need all kinds of support—including with peers and professional actors—and molding talmidei chachamim of even financial support, which we need now they are able to receive advice from greats greater stature who will serve as the great more than ever. We need our alumni in the field, such as Dr. David Pelcovitz minds of tomorrow. To do that we need to spread the word in the communities and Dr. Norman Blumenthal. They learn to allow more talmidim to learn here at about the terrific things going on at to speak—to really speak well—and to the highest levels, and to continue to RIETS and to inspire young men from deliver insightful messages. They discuss learn longer than perhaps they were able their communities to consider YU and, the issues on the minds of their future to learn before. We also need to attract some day, semikhah and the rabbinate. students and baalei batim. The rabbi more beginning students into the JSS But we would also like to involve the who comes from the Yeshiva today is in a program—from NCSY and from every alumni in shaping the Yeshiva itself. different place, qualitatively, than the rabbi corner of the world. At the same time, we We would like their input on what the who left Yeshiva in my time. We are also need to provide for a growing segment of Yeshiva can do, not just to serve them excited that almost all of the fellows who the Yeshiva that is returning from Israel and their communities, but to serve the who are going into chinuch are studying for with a lot of interest and excitement, but YU talmidim and potential talmidim of degrees from the Azrieli Graduate School. who need a lot of chizzuk and hadrachah today. I believe that the alumni can make We are also very excited that Rabbi Neal while here in the Yeshiva. Officially we the Yeshiva of today a better institution. Turk is now directing the program and have four undergraduate Torah studies Finally, I would love to create a greater giving so much of his time and expertise to programs, a semikhah program and sense among the rabbinic alumni that the talmidim. There is just a different level kollelim. But there are so many more when they are serving out in the field, of preparation for the field. opportunities within the Yeshiva. We they are in some way representing the have 1,300 young men studying Torah Yeshiva and its mission. We have talented CHAVRUSA: How do you see the Yeshiva every day and we need to create a lot of alumni, who are dedicated to serving developing over the next period? experiences in the same Yeshiva campus the Ribbono shel Olam and are very much I think that the diversity of our student for a lot of differentneshamot . serving leshem Shamayim. That is terrific, body is our greatest challenge and our and we wouldn’t want to stop that in any CHAVRUSA: What role do you see way. But can we also achieve things as a greatest opportunity and I hope that Rabbinic Alumni playing? What do you the Yeshiva will grow to meet the needs group? Can we share a mission and a real think needs to happen in the relationship sense that we are reaching out together of the many differenttalmidim on our between the Yeshiva and its alumni? campus. We must have a Yeshiva that can as RIETS to the Jewish community?

“My years at RIETS served as a crucible that molded my religious self. In and out of the beit midrash, I was inspired to take responsibility for my own life and for the future of the Jewish people.” Rabbi Noah Cheses (‘11R) Associate Rabbi and JLIC educator,

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CHAVRUSA: As the Chag HaSemikhah that goes beyond practical halakhah or glorious to be a rabbi. Yeshiva College approaches, what do you see as the biggest practical rabbinics. There are a lot of and Sy Syms graduates are able to go challenges or opportunities facing today’s situations for which no faculty member into many professional fields, including rabbanim in the Modern Orthodox can fully prepare our graduates, other some that may be more lucrative than the community? than to give them a sense of how one rabbinate and earn the respect of family approaches a difficult issue, whom one and peers. The Chag HaSemikhah is a I think that the greatest challenge can speak to in challenging situations, day where everything is put into a proper that faces this generation of rabbis, and, not least important, how to react at perspective. It is an “olam hafuch” where whether they are going into education, the moments when difficult questions or those who have devoted years to the study the rabbinate, or will find themselves challenges are posed to the rabbi. of Torah, those who have decided to in a hospital setting, is finding the devote their lives, in one way or another, balance between being accepting, non- CHAVRUSA: What does the Chag to serving Klal Yisrael and teaching Torah, judgmental, and open-minded, while HaSemikhah represent? How does it are the ones placed upon the pedestal. In being absolutely firm with issues that celebrate the spirit and the renewal that sense, it is one of the most beautiful concern the mesorah. Achieving that of RIETS, and the new generation of days and exciting moments in the life balance is something our Yeshiva can do musmakhim? of our community. When you look at in a unique way— producing rabbanim The Chag HaSemikhah is one of the most the kochot of this group of musmakhim, who are, on the one hand, rooted in the these 200 new rabbis, you literally see classic mesorah of halakhah and minhag, exciting things we do at the Yeshiva. It is a day when our talmidim are honored the future of the Jewish community. It and connected to poskim who are world- is a time when we are very proud of our renown, and, at the same time, rabbanim for some of the greatest achievements possible: significant accomplishment in Yeshiva, very proud of our students, and who can relate to the congregations or very excited about what they are, IY”H, students or the patients that they are Torah study, the receiving of rabbinic going to accomplish. n serving. That is a difficult task today. ordination and the making of a lifetime It requires humility, scholarship, and a commitment to help Klal Yisrael. We live certain amount of emotional intelligence in a community where it is not always

“During my time in RIETS, I spent years studying the necessary chomer and developing the pastoral skills that would be crucial to life in the rabbinate. Yet above all I accomplished, I appreciate the relationships that I developed during my years on campus with my rebbeim, peers and various mentors. Those relationships, which continue to guide and support me throughout my rabbinic career, have proven to be relationships for a lifetime.” Rabbi Jeremy Donath (‘11R) Rabbi, Congregation Darchei Noam of Fair Lawn; Community Coordinator, OHEL Regional Family Center of Northern ; Rebbe, Torah Academy of Bergen County (TABC)

26 CHAVRUSA • ADAR II 5774 Recent Books

A Synagogue The Philosophical Quest Letters to Echoes of Eden- Companion of Philosophy, Ethics, President Clinton Sefer B’midbar: Rabbi Hayyim Angel Law, and Halakhah Rabbi Menachem Spies, Subversives, and (‘95R) Rabbi J. David Bleich Genack (‘73R) other Scoundrels Rabbi Ari D. Kahn (‘86R)

Derashot Ledorot- A Torah, , and The Biblical Outlook: Harry Fischel: The Commentary for the Science Topics In Jewish Pioneer of American Ages: Exodus Rabbi Moshe Philosophy Jewish Orthodoxy Rabbi Dr. Norman Meiselman (‘70R) Rabbi Shlomo Rabbi Aaron Reichel Lamm (‘51R) Polachek (‘71R) (‘74R)

End the Madness: Guide Tovim Ha-Shenayim: The Laws of Cooking Rabbi Benjamin to the World A Study of the Role and Warming Food on Yudin on the Parsha Rabbi Chananya and Nature of Man and Shabbat Rabbi Benjamin Weissman (‘06R) Woman Rabbi Mordechai Yudin (‘69R) Rabbi Chananya Willig (‘71R) Weissman (‘06R)

27 CHAVRUSA • ADAR II 5774 Life-Cycle Events

Rabbi Boruch ’10R and Elise Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Meir and Rosh HaYeshiva Emeritus Mazal Tov Danzger on the birth of a Hilla Goldwicht on the birth Rabbi Dr. Norman ’51R and Rabbi Shimon ’76R and daughter. of a grandson, Oriel Chaim, Mindella Lamm on the birth of Sharon Altshul on the birth of Rabbi Moshe ’09R and Ariela born to Rabbi Eitiel and Ariella a granddaughter, Sarit, born to Goldwicht. RIETS student Ari and Shlomit a grandson, Yakir David, born to Davis on the birth of a son. Rabbi Asher and Anat Altshul. Rabbi Joshua ’09R and Lamm. Rabbi Ariel Diamond ’12R and Rachelle Goller on the birth of Rabbi Dr. Ely ’99R and Malka RIETS student Sam and Yehudit Rivky Twersky on their marriage, a son. Landman on the birth of a Ash on the birth of a son. and to parents, Rosh Yeshiva daughter, Shalva Emunah. Rabbi Kenneth ’78R and Rabbi Mayer ’85R and Faige Rabbi Alan ’61R and Gala Joanne Auman on the marriage Twersky. Greenspan on the marriage Rabbi Eliezer ’75R and Lucy Langer of their daughter, Leni, to Donny Rabbi Jeremy ’11R and of their granddaughter, on the birth of Temima Lehrman, to Binyamin a grandson, born to Baila and Kazarnovsky. Shira Donath on the birth of a Greenberg. Naftali. Rabbi Jeremy ’12R and daughter, Yael Tova. Rabbi Yonah ’06R and Chava Rabbi Aaron ’09R and Ayelet Sarah Baran on the birth Rabbi Shlomo ’04R and Gross on birth of a son. Leibtag of a son, Akiva Shraga, and Shira Einhorn on the birth of a on the birth of a son, to grandparents, RIETS daughter. Rabbi Yakov ’12R and Alexander Ziskind. Administrator Rabbi Chaim Rabbi Elie ’07R and Yael Devorah Grun on the birth of Rabbi Meir ’10R and Jordy ’72R and Brenda Bronstein. a son. Lipschitz Farkas on the birth of a son, on the birth of a son, Rabbi Gary ’92R and Sheba Yehuda Shalom. Rabbi Harris ’63R and Judi Shmuel Yitzchak. Beitler on the marriage of their Guedalia Rabbi Dovid ’06R and on the birth of a great- Rabbi Elchanan ’77R and daughter, Batya, to Yitzy Simon. grandson, born to Rabbi Eitan Ruth Lipshitz Hadassah Feinberg on the on the birth of a and Miriam Kupietsky. Rabbi Reu ’14R and Miriam birth of a son, Refoel Alexander. granddaughter, Kamah, born to Berman on the birth of a son, Rabbi Gary ’08R and Leba Elana and Elyasaf Shweka. RIETS student Yoni and Aharon. Guttenberg on the birth of twin Romema Fiener on the birth of Director Full-Day Yeshiva boys, Yehuda and Yosef Shalom. Rabbi Shmuel ’02R RIETS student Rabbi Eliezer a daughter, Ahuva. Program and Ilana Bercuson on the and Chani Maybruch on the Rabbi Yoni ’10R and Ariele Rabbi Shaye ’08R and Dina birth of a son. Guttenberg birth of a son, Yaakov Simcha. Fox on the birth of a daughter, on the birth of a Rabbi Gershon ’13R and Rabbi Yaakov ’96R and Sara Sara Tehila. son, Shlomo Tzohar. Blau on the birth of a son, Tzippy Meisel on the birth of a Rabbi Josh ’01R and Aviva Rabbi David ’10R and Ariella Yehuda Shabbsai, and to the Hellman on the birth of a son. son. Friedman on the birth of a grandparents, Senior Mashgiach Rabbi Ephraim ’12R and daughter, Esther Liba. Rabbi Etan ’11R and Tamar Ruchani Rabbi Yosef ’61R and Tzivia Meth on the birth of a Ehrenfeld on the birth of a Dr. Rivkah Blau. Rabbi Lippy ’69R and son, Elazar. Maureen (Goldsmith) daughter, Adira Nechama. Rabbi Joseph ’11R and Rabbi Philip ’10R and Arielle Friedman on the birth of a great Rabbi Alan ’76R and Sandy Blumenthal on the birth of a Moskowitz on the birth of a grandson, Yoseph Tuvia Fishman, Kalinsky on the birth of a son, Baruch Yaakov. daughter, Esther Tehila. born to their grandson, Yedidya grandson, Ezra Yehoshua, born Rabbi Yosef ’12R and and Talia Fishman. to Dr. Yoni and Michal Frankel. Rabbi Moshe ’75R and Batya Bronstein on the Vivian Neiss Rabbi Mordechai ’11R and Rabbi Avi ’09R and Esti on the birth of a birth of a son, Yehuda Ariel, granddaughter, Dahlia Chaya, Shoshanna Gershon on the Kilimnick on birth of a and to grandparents, RIETS born to Alison and Jeremy Neiss. birth of a son, Yosef Shalom. daughter, Ahuva Chava, and to Administrator Rabbi Chaim Rabbi Shaya and Rabbi Yaakov ’72R and Brenda Bronstein, Rabbi Yitzi ’13R and grandparents Rosh Yeshiva Nechie Kilimnick. ’79R and Peshie and Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Shoshana Genack on the Neuburger on the birth of a Hershel and Chasida birth of a son, Avraham, and Rabbi Jonathan ’02R and grandson, Shlomo Tzvi, born Reichman. to grandparents, Rosh Yeshiva Chaya Krimsky on the birth of a Rabbi Menachem ’73R and to Bruria and Jackie Siegel, Rabbi Noah ’11R and Sarah son, Akiva Pesach. Sarah Genack. and to great-grandfather, Dean Cheses on the birth of a son, RIETS student Ben and Abby Emeritus and Special Advisor to Netanel Moshe. Rabbi David ’86R and Kurzer on the birth of a son, the President on Yeshiva Affairs Shulamit Ginsburg Rabbi Aryeh ’12R and Brooke on the Ahron Eliezer. Rabbi Zevulun Charlop ’54R. marriage of their daughter, Czarka on the birth of a Rosh HaYeshiva Emeritus Rabbi Meir ’90R and Dr. Avigayil Ginsburg, to Menachem daughter, Shira Zahava. Rabbi Dr. Norman ’51R and Esther Orlian the on birth of Rapp. Mindella Lamm Rabbi Dr. Hillel ’75R and on the a granddaughter, Hod, and to marriage of their granddaughter, Rock (Eckstein) Davis on great-grandparents, Rabbi Dr. Peninah Lamm, to Eitan the marriage of their daughter, J. Mitchell and Ethel (Chaya) Kaplansky. Nahva, to Isaac Maman. Orlian.

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Rabbi Adir ’06R and Hindi Rabbi Ariel ’06R and ’06R and Yael Beile (and Rabbi Robert Posy on the birth of a son. Schochet on the birth of a Willig on the birth of a daughter, ’76R) Block and Mindy (and Rabbi Moshe ’69R and Chana daughter, Batsheva Meira. , and to grandparents, Dr. David ’72R) Ribner on the Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Mordechai Poupko on the birth of a RIETS student Elliot Schreier passing of their mother, Shirley ’71R and Faygie Willig. granddaughter, Avital Rivka, born on his marriage to Rena Ganz z”l. to Akiva and Shevy Poupko. Goldstein. Rabbi Avraham ’02R and Chana Twersky Gellman on the Yocheved Willig Rabbi Yom Tov ’12R and Rabbi Tsvi ’12R and Tali on the passing of her husband, Rabbi birth of a son, Yosef, and to Nehemia Gellman ’50R, z’”l. Shira Priluck on the birth of a Selengut on the birth of a son, grandparents, Rosh Yeshiva daughter. Avraham David. Rabbi Dr. Gershon C. Gewirtz Rabbi Mordechai ’71R and ’72R on the passing of his RIETS student Mordy and Rabbi Sion Setton ’13R on his Faygie Willig. Temima Prus on the birth of a marriage to Mijal Bitton. mother, Sylvia Gewirtz z”l. Rabbi Yehuda ’06R and Ahuva son. Chanah Rivkah Ginsburg on the Rabbi Aharon ’85R and Willig on the birth of a son, passing of her husband, Rabbi RIETS student Sam Reinstein Beverly Simkin on the birth of Yaakov, and to grandparents, Louis Ginsburg ’48R, z”l. and Hannah Dreyfus on their a granddaughter, Miriam Bracha Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Mordechai marraige. Berlinger, born to Pini and ’71R and Faygie Willig. Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Ozer Devorah Berlinger. Glickman on the passing of his Rabbi Yitzchak ’62R and Judy Rabbi Joel ’86R and Donna sister, Constance Weintraub z”l. Rosenbaum on the marriage Rabbi Zevi ’14R and Leora Zeff on the birth of a grandson, their granddaughter, Shifra Spitz on the birth of a daughter. born to Uri and Chana Rabbi Philip Goldman ’56R Rosenbaum, to Tzvi Pfeffer. Rabbi Steven ’73R and Lichtenstein-Biran. on the passing of his wife, Phyllis Goldman z”l. Rabbi Dr. Bernhard ’74R and Chana Stein on the birth of Rabbi Aron Meir ’07R and Charlene Rosenberg on the a grandson, Yehuda Mevaser Rachel Zuckerman on the birth Zelda (and Rabbi Sheldon birth of a grandson, Asher Tzvi, Shalom, born to Eliana and of a son. ’71R Goldsmith) on the born to Ilana and Joshua Merl. Shlomo Lechiani. passing of her father, Seymour Rabbi Ariel ’14R and Jackie Rabbi Chaim ’06R and Avital Kleiman z”l. Rosensweig on the birth of Strauchler on the birth of a Condolences Rabbi Eric S. Goldstein ’94R a daughter, Rina Esther, and daughter. RIETS student Willie Balk on on the passing of his mother, Blanche Goldstein z”l. to grandparents, Rosh Yeshiva Rochel Sylvetsky, wife of the late the passing of his mother, Sheila Rabbi Michael ’80R and Rabbi Dov Sylvetsky z”l ’62R Balk z”l. Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Meir Smadar Rosensweig. on the birth of a granddaughter, Rabbi Manny ’82R on Goldwicht on the passing of his RIETS student Itamar and Esti born to Rabbi Avraham and Avital the passing of his mother, Rivka mother, Yehudit Goldwicht z”l. Rosensweig on the birth of a Sylvetsky. Behar z”l. Rabbi Irving H. Goodman ’55R daughter, Ayelet Miriam, and Rabbi Avraham Tanev ’09R on Rabbi Michael Bleicher ’10R on the passing of his wife, Lea to grandparents, Rosh Yeshiva his marriage to Hilah Korin. on the passing of his brother, Ari Goodman z”l. Rabbi Michael ’80R and Bleicher z”l. Smadar Rosensweig. RIETS student Yaakov and Clare Green on the passing of Racheli Taubes on the birth Rabbi Menachem Brick ’83R her husband, Rabbi Dr. Leon Rabbi Elie ’02R and Abigail of a son, Yisrael David, and to on the passing of his mother, Green ’58R, z”l. Rothberger on the birth of a Rabbi Michael grandparents, Shirley Brick z”l. Rabbi Joel Grossman ’83R on son, Yehuda Zalman, and to ’83R and Bassie Taubes. grandparents, Rabbi Joseph Aviva Cohen on the passing of the passing of his father, Arthur ’61R and Debbie Rothberger. Rabbi Yehuda ’10R and Dr. her husband, Rabbi Eliezer Grossman z”l. Ilana Turetsky on the birth of Cohen ’72R, z”l, father of Rabbi Rachmiel ’03R and Rebbetzin Bella Grunblatt on the a son. Rabbi Azaryah Moshe Cohen Becky Rothberger on the birth passing of her husband, Rabbi ’05R. of a daughter, Esther Chaya, and Rabbi Ari ’90R and Sandy Joseph Grunblatt z”l. (Levitz) Waxman to grandparents, Rabbi Joseph on the birth Rabbi Aryeh ’12R and Brooke Rabbi Zvi Harari ’91R on the ’61R and Debbie Rothberger. of a grandson, born to Rachel Czarka on the passing of their passing of his father, Alexander and Eliad Dennis, and to great- daughter, Batya Emunah z”l. Rabbi Yehuda ’02R and Gershon Harari z”l. grandparents, Rabbi Dr. Yisrael Michelle Sarna Rabbi Edward Feigelman ’71R on the birth of ’63R and Myra Levitz, and Prof. Joel Hecker ’90R on the on the passing of his brother, a son, Hillel Shafir. Prof. Chaim I. ’66R and Chaya passing of his father, Harvey Arnold Feigelman z”l. Rabbi Dovid ’14R and Miriam Waxman. Hecker z”l. Schachter Rabbi Eliot Feldman ’75R on on the birth of a son, RIETS Rabbi Moshe Rabbi Jonathan Horowitz on the passing of his father, David Moshe Pinchas. ’83R and Myrna Weinberger the passing of his father, Rabbi Feldman z”l. Rabbi Mordechai Schnaidman on the marriage of their daughter Naftali Horowitz z”l. ’52R on the birth of a great- Chani to Sruly Perlow. Rabbi Kalman Fogel ’90R on Rabbi Ari Jacobs ’84R on the grandson, born to Shoshana and the passing of his mother, Renee passing of his father, Al Jacobs z”l. Yaakov Silberman. Fogel z”l.

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Rabbi Howard S. Joseph ’64R Rabbi Jay H. Marcus ’71R on Rabbi Yitzchak Rosenbaum Minnie Smilchensky on the on the passing of his mother, the passing of his mother, Lillian ’62R, Rabbi Yehuda passing of her husband, Rabbi Miryam Joseph z”l, grandmother Marcus z”l. Rosenbaum ’78R, Chana (and Joel N. Smilchensky ’56R, z”l. of YU Senior Vice President Rabbi Dr. Zechariah ’62R) Rabbi Gilbert Marks ’78R on Rabbi Steven Stein ’73R on Rabbi Josh Joseph ’00R. Senter, and Esther Scharf on the passing of his father, Harold the passing of his mother, Shirley the passing of their mother, Rabbi Jay Kimmel ’70R on the Marks z”l. Stein z”l. passing of his mother, Lillian Rosalind Rosenbaum z”l. Rabbi Eitan Mayer ’99R on the Rabbi Asher Vale on the Kimmel z”l. Marilyn Roth on the passing of passing of his father, Benyomin passing of his father Rabbi her husband, Rabbi Jacob Roth Seymour Kleiman on the passing Mayer z”l. George Vale z”l. ’55R, z”l. of his father, Rabbi Sidney Rabbi Meir Mitelman ’77R RIETS student Yoni Weinberg Kleiman ’36R, z”l. Elissa Sable on the passing of on the passing of his brother, on the passing of his brother, Uri her husband, Rabbi Dr. Jacob Emily Labaton on the passing Shelton Mitelman z”l. Weinberg z”l. Sable ’56R z”l. of her husband, Rabbi Ezra Peggy Mayer and David S. Dr. Esther Wohlgelernter on the Labaton ’74R, z”l. Miriam Schiff on the passing Movsky on the passing of passing of her husband, Rabbi Menashe Levin, Rivka Yeres, their father, Rabbi Myron B. of her husband, RIETS Board Dr. Maurice Wohlgelernter Dr. Alvin Schiff z”l. Miriam Perlah and Yitzchak Levin Movsky ’42R, z”l. Member, ’44R, z”l. on the passing of their father, Rabbi Menachem Schrader Rabbi Marvin ’59R and Judy Rabbi Daniel Yolkut ’02R on Rabbi Shlomo Stanley Levin ’78R on the passing of his Pachino on the passing of their the passing of his father, Rabbi ’54R, z”l. mother, Lillian Schrader z”l. son, Rabbi Zev Meir Pachino z”l. Menachem Yolkut z”l. Rabbi Allen Schwartz ’86R Chaya Marcus on the passing Rabbi Yom Tov Priluck ’12R on Rabbi Sammy Zimmerman of her husband, Rabbi Dr. the passing of his mother, Sarah on the passing of his father, Ira ’84R on the passing of his Elihu Marcus ’56R, z”l, father Schwartz z”l. Priluck z”l. mother, Elaine Zimmerman z”l. of Rabbi Nachum ’86R (and Gadi Segal on the passing of his Devora) Marcus, Yedida (and Rabbi Shaya Richmond on brother, Rabbi Dan Segal ’02R, Rabbi David the passing of his father, Jay Amnon) Ginzburg, z”l. ’94R (and Marcy) Marcus, and Richmond z”l. Debbie (and Shlomi) Brietbard. Rabbi David Aaron, Rabbi Elie Abadie, Yehuda Leib Abberbock, Ra Abraham, Professor Abraham S. Abraham, Jed H. Abraham, Aaron Abramson, Rabbi David Abuchatzeira, Nina J. 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