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A Year in Review A PUBLICATION OF THE RABBINIC ALUMNI OF THE RABBI ISAAC ELCHANAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY • AN AFFILIATE OF YESHIVA UNIVERSITY CHAVRUSA Volume 52 • Number 2 אין התורה נקנית אלא בחבורה (ברכות סג:) June 2019 • Sivan 5779 Launch of the Marcos z”l and Adina Katz YUTorah App 5779: A Year in Review Remembering Rabbi An Inside look at the YU Makor Meir Fulda z”l ’59R Program for students with Page 32 special needs: An Interview with Rabbi Uri Feintuch ’09R Page 36 In This Issue Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary Page 3 In Pictures Marcos z”l and Adina Katz YUTorah App Launch Event Purim 5779 in Yeshiva Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman 2019 RIETS Gala PRESIDENT, RIETS Dr. Richard M. Joel PRESIDENT-EMERITUS, RIETS Page 7 YU Community News Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm Celebrating the Chumash Mesoras HaRav, Siyum in Memory of ROSH HAYESHIVA EMERITUS, RIETS Ari Fuld Hy”d, The Fourth Annual Melave Malka, A Festschrift in Honor of Dr. Richard M. Joel, Vigil for Pittsburgh, 94th Rabbi Joel M. Schrieber Annual Hanukkah Dinner, 12th Annual Medical Ethics Society CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, RIETS Conference, A Winter Week of Learning, Rabbi Dr. Yosef Kalinsky Named as Dean, Talmud Torah in the 21st Century, Annual RIETS Gala, Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz Returns to YU Rabbi Menachem Penner MAX AND MARION GRILL DEAN RIETS TORAH STUDIES Page 22 Chomer Lidrush for Shavuos Miut Sheinah: Studying Torah While Sleep Deprived Rabbi Zevulun Charlop Rabbi Yaakov Glasser ’01R DEAN EMERITUS, RIETS Matan Torah: Singular Event, Two Narratives SPECIAL ADVISOR TO THE PRESIDENT ON YESHIVA AFFAIRS Rabbi Yaakov Neuburger ’79R Rabbi Yaakov Glasser DAVID MITZNER DEAN, CENTER FOR THE JEWISH FUTURE AND UNIVERSITY LIFE Page 28 Halacha from the Beit Midrash Shavuos Rabbi Chaim Bronstein Edition ADMINISTRATOR, RIETS Selected Piskei Halacha from RIETS Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Hershel Schachter ’67R CHAVRUSA Compiled by Rabbi Ike Sultan ’17R A PUBLICATION OF RIETS RABBINIC ALUMNI Rabbi Dov Winston EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, CHAVRUSA Page 32 Remembering Rabbi Fulda Menachem Lewin Dual Memorial Services for Rabbi Meir Fulda z”l ’59R PRODUCTION MANAGER, CHAVRUSA Divrei Hesped Azkara by Rabbi Elchanan Adler Ms. Keren Simon ASSISTANT EDITOR, CHAVRUSA Rabbi Robert Shur GRAPHICS AND LAYOUT, CHAVRUSA Page 36 Musmakhim in Focus CHAVRUSA is published by the Rabbinic Alumni of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan An Inside look at the YU Makor Program for students Theological Seminary, through the office of Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future. 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