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Successful Chag Hasemikhah Highlights RIETS Alumni Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary A PUBLICATION OF THE RABBINIC ALUMNI OF THE RABBI ISAAC ELCHANAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY • AN AFFILIATE OF YESHIVA UNIVERSITY an affiliate of Yeshiva University Max Stern Division of Communal Service 500 West 185th Street New York, NY 10033 CHAVRUSA SEPTEMBER 2006 • ELUL 5766 :dx ,ufr c–vrucjc tkt ,hbeb vru,v iht VOLUME 41 • NUMBER 1 CHAVRUSA is a publication of the Rabbinic Alumni of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Successful Chag Theological Seminary, an affiliate of Yeshiva University Hasemikhah Richard M. Joel Highlights RIETS President Alumni and their Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm Chancellor, Yeshiva University Rosh HaYeshiva, RIETS Contributions to Klal Rabbi Kenneth Brander Yisrael Dean, Center for the Jewish Future arch’s Chag Rabbi Dr. Solomon Rybak HaSemikhah, which President, Rabbinic Alumni was featured in the last Rabbi Ronald L. Schwarzberg edition of Chavrusa , Director, Jewish Career Development and Placement truly accomplished its RIETS alumni representing classes between 1941 and 2006 enjoy the Chag HaSemikhah. M goal of celebrating the musmakhim Rabbi Elly Krimsky Assistant Director, Jewish Career from the past four years. It can be said Development and Placement Yeshiva Augments Rabbinic Training that the Chag HaSemikhah was one of Editor, Chavrusa Yeshiva’s greatest, both in terms of Rabbi Levi Mostofsky Program at RIETS and in the Field quantity of rabbis and the quality of the Director of Rabbinic Programming programming. Associate Editor, Chavrusa ithin a month this past will help our RIETS students hone To better understand where RIETS Rabbi Dovid Kupchik spring, Yeshiva their professional skills in six areas of has made its greatest impact, statistics Coordinator Educational Placement University announced the rabbinate. were assembled to view the areas Keren Simon two bold initiatives continued on page 17 Administrator, Jewish Career Development and Placement that undoubtedly will LEGACY HERITAGE RABBINIC W EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVE add to the professionalism and training Naftali Levanda Highlights Rabbinic Intern, Jewish Career of its rabbis. This academic year, rab - Richard M. Joel, President of Yeshiva Development and Placement binical students enrolled in RIETS, as University and of RIETS, announced New Rabbinic Training program . 1 well as Rabbinic Alumni, will benefit the establishment of the Legacy Placement Statistics . ..1 from the foresight of a few visionaries Heritage Rabbinic Enrichment RIETS Divrei Chizuk. 4 and the resources of RIETS and Initiative, which is being funded by Chomer l'Drush . 5 Rabbi Zevulun Charlop Yeshiva University. The Legacy Heritage Fund Limited. Max and Marion Grill Dean of RIETS Back to the Beit Midrash . 6 The Legacy Heritage Rabbinic “The Legacy Heritage Rabbinic Musmakhim in the Limelight . 8 Rabbi Chaim Bronstein Enrichment Initiative (LHREI) and the Enrichment Initiative responds to the Administrator, RIETS Chag Hasemikhah Highlights . 10 new RIETS Rabbinic Professional challenges of rabbinic leadership,” said New Faces. 12 Rabbi Julius Berman Education Program (R-PEP) have each President Joel. “We are most grateful Chairman of the Board of Trustees, YUTORAH . 13 RIETS created six divisions of service. While not only for the Legacy Heritage Fund’s Membership Perks . 13 the LHREI programs will ensure a generosity but for its vision and Life Cycle . 14 resilient future leadership, the R-PEP continued on page 2 Yeshiva Augments... THE LHREI PROGRAM training to a new level, complementing the intensive and Students in the education track are required to complete a mas - continued from page 1 IS COMPRISED OF SIX MODULES: expanding core of Torah studies. ter’s degree in Jewish education at Azrieli Graduate School in sophisticated leadership in responding to the manifold needs of “Our new rabbinic professional training program will hone addition to their core coursework. Students in other tracks will contemporary life in the Orthodox community and improving • Yarchei Kallah programs, comprised of retreats that help pulpit the skills rabbis need to more effectively interact with their con - have the opportunity for further study at the various YU gradu - the skills of hundreds of rabbis. The innovative aspects of the rabbis sharpen their public presentation skills through exposure gregants and other constituencies,” said Rabbi Zevulun ate schools in areas of psychology, social work, and Jewish studies. Initiative, which are directed to lay leadership, will significantly to homiletical and historical materials, and offer strategies in Charlop, the Max and Marion Grill Dean of RIETS. “It is much To complete the program, students must intern for three improve the partnership between lay and professional Jewish board development and retention, time management, creative more comprehensive, we believe, than any advanced profession - semesters of hands-on practical experience in each student’s leadership that is critical for success and growth.” programming, and pedagogy. al training program we know of and with an unequaled faculty defined rabbinic professional goals. The fourth year is a full- directly facing up to the challenges of today with the tools of year mentored internship program in the synagogue, school, LHREI, a program for the continuing education of rabbis, is an • Regional Rabbinic Seminars, fostering partnerships between tomorrow.” outreach, administrative, or chaplaincy settings where they undertaking of Legacy Heritage Fund of New York and rabbis and their lay leaders to develop effective community life. The program combines intensive Torah study with practical must continue to maintain their rigorous Torah studies that Jerusalem. Legacy Heritage Fund’s purpose is to honor and per - courses in a broad range of disciplines such as writing skills, remain the rabbi’s principal and classical stock-in-trade. During petuate the priceless legacy of scholarship, Torah values and • Mentorship of Young Rabbis by Master Rabbis, an informal public speaking, conflict resolution, pastoral counseling, educa - this year, the students function as a regular part of the rabbinic learning— hallmarks of the lives of Bella and Harry Wexner, z”l.. educational program that will provide a venue for openness, tion, and outreach taught by leading experts in their respective staff at the internship location. Committed Jews and committed Zionists, the Wexners held intimacy, and sharing. Younger rabbis will benefit from mentor - fields. “The Bella and Harry Wexner Kollel Elyon and Semikha true to their beliefs throughout their lives of hard work and ship, while the senior rabbis gain satisfaction from their interac - “As ordained rabbis, RIETS musmakhim make a significant Honors Program were the laboratories for this program,” noted struggle, achieving only late in life their dream of creating one tion with younger colleagues. contribution to each of the fields related to their rabbinic train - Rabbi Charlop. Established eight years ago, the Wexner Kollel of the major retail conglomerates in the world. ing,” said Yeshiva University Chancellor and RIETS Rosh Elyon was open to a select number of semikhah students offer - This success enabled them to fulfill their lifelong longings to • Resource Center at Yeshiva University, drawing on YU’s vast HaYeshiva Rabbi Norman Lamm. “The intensive and sacred ing intensive, traditional Torah learning with innovative, practi - help shape a brighter future for Jews inside and outside Israel, a resources of Judaic scholarship to provide direction to pulpit learning of RIETS students is a fundamental feature of their cal courses in various disciplines. We are now bringing the future reflecting their own devotion to Jewish values, to the rabbis in a host of areas, such as medicine, law, grant writing, professional work in every area of avodat hakodesh in the con - fruits of that visionary and creative program to the broader central role the rabbi played in the life of Jewish communities research, crafting speeches, contract negotiations, and other temporary Orthodox community.” RIETS population.” and to their respect for scholarship, research and learning. matters. The community rabbi and his specific need will be In the fall of 2002, recognizing the complex and changing The Rabbinic Professional Education Program will chart the In tribute to these values, Bella Wexner endowed the Bella matched with an expert at the university, enabling a direct con - needs of the American Jewish community, Rabbi Julius Berman, future of the Jewish community by preparing rabbis to be con - and Harry Wexner Kollel Elyon and Semikha Honors Program nection between YU resources and rabbis in the field. as chairman of the RIETS board, appointed Dr. Alvin I. Schiff versant with the range of crucial issues facing the community to further prepare rabbis for the complex tasks that lay ahead. The initiative also seeks to build a strong laity, and offers pro - to lead the effort to review the professional training of RIETS and giving them the ability to communicate effectively with all The Bella and Harry Wexner Kollel Elyon and Smikha Honors grams to support that growth. “Equally important for the students. Dr. Schiff is the Irving I. Stone Distinguished Jews using “real world” skills. The academic enrichment portion Program was endowed to provide the training that would enable Orthodox community is an engaged, committed, and sophisti - Professor of Jewish Education at Azrieli Graduate School of of the program was developed with the guidance of university
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