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$1billion

fundraising

campaign

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400wins by

YU basketball

coach

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Revel PhD

candidate

places

2ndin international

Bible contest

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$2.4million

in science grants to

undergraduate

faculty

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Ferkauf awarded

$470K Affordable

Care Act grant

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90students

participated in

CJF winter missions

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In July 2006, Yeshiva University launched the quiet phase o a $1

billion comprehensive University-wide campaign. This past De-

cember, during the 88th Annual Hanukkah Dinner and Convoca-

tion—YU’s most important undraising event o the year—the

campaign went public in a special video narrated by President Rich-

ard M. Joel describing the impact o the campaign on the Univer-

sity: rom increased scholarship assistance and new acilities on all

campuses to growth in aculty productivity, curriculum enhance-

ment and innovative programming.“The Yeshiva University experience is more than an intellec-

tual pursuit,” said President Joel. “It is about providing each and

every student, undergraduate and graduate, with the knowledge,

skills, opportunities and values to become a whole person and to

live a lie o meaning. The Campaign or Yeshiva University is de-

signed to secure the resources that wi ll enable our students to ulll

their Mandate to Matter.”

President Joel’s maxim, “Mandate to Matter,” neatly encapsu-

lates YU’s unique role o both educating students to succeed in their

chosen proessions and preparing students to contribute to the wel-

are o their communities, society at large and the shaping o the

Jewish uture through the philosophy o Torah Umadda, the syn-

ergy between Jewish law and tradition and contemporary society.

In light o YU’s distinctive values and mission, the capital cam-

paign has two main goals: to advance excellence in all YU schools,

while giving students the tools to live lives o meaning; and to

Students, Alumni and Faculty Illuminate Annual

 Hanukkah Dinner

Students, aculty and alumni who embody the mission o 

 Yeshiva University were recognized as “Points o Light” dur-

ing the dinner portion o YU’s 88th Annual Hanukkah Din-

ner and Convocation, held at New York City’s Waldor=Astoria on

December 16.“There are so many lights that shine brightly at Yeshiva. Tonight,

we ocus on individuals who serve as exemplars o the past, present

and uture o Yeshiva University,” said President Richard M. Joel,

who invited each Point o Light on stage to light a symbolic candle on

a menorah.

The Points o Light included Helen Unger, a senior at Stern Col-

lege or Women, and Dr. Marina Holz, assistant proessor o biology.

Unger grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, where she attended public school

beore enrolling in Stern College’s S. Daniel Abraham Honor’s Pro-

gram. Under Holz’s tutelage, Unger’s research in the breast cancer

eld has won numerous awards, including the Toby Eagle Memorial

Scholarship in Cancer Biology and a position in the highly selective

Sloan-Kettering Undergraduate Research Program. Unger is also the

rst YU student to receive the Thomas Bardos Science Education

Award or Undergraduate Students.

“I wanted an environment where being an Orthodox Jew

wouldn’t be at odds with my secular education,” Unger said o her de-

cision to attend Yeshiva University. “Moreover, I value a small learn-

ing environment, and the direct mentorship I received at YU more

than speaks to why I chose to come here.”

Daniel Simkin, a sophomore at the Sy Syms School o Business,

began his university studies in his native Venezuela, but longed or

a place where “I could walk around wearing a kippa and eel Jew-

ish,” he said. Ater discovering YU on a visit to a riend enrolled in

the school, Simkin taught himsel English so that he could attend.

His entrepreneurship activities on campus include creating the Latin

American Business Club and Hope Book, a collaboration with his YU

classmates to develop an inspirational book or children with cancer,

sparked by his own struggle with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma as a child.

Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program student Gavriel

Brown spent nine days helping out at Washington Heights’ 192nd

Street Shelter ater Hurricane Sandy hit and coordinated the shel-

ter’s daily volunteer ow and general operations to make sure evacu-

ees were cared or. Brown is eatu res editor o The Commentator and

serves as the editor o the Chronos Historical Journal o Yeshiva Uni-

versity as well as design editor and sta writer or  Kol Hamevaser,

the Jewish thought magazine o YU’s student body. During his st ud-

ies in Israel, he was a ull-time volunteer at Save a Child’s Heart

Foundation and volunteer emergency medical technician with

Magen David Adom.

Grace Meng, a 2002 graduate o YU’s Benjamin N. Cardozo

School o Law, was sworn into Congress on January 3, representing 

New York’s Sixth District. A dedicated public interest attorney and

grassroots political activist, her top priorities are children’s health

and education, improving the quality o lie or senior citizens and

helping small business owners achieve their American dream.

Emily Miller is an MD/PhD student at YU’s Albert Einstein Col-

lege o Medicine whose groundbreaking discovery in Ebola research

may lead to the disease’s rst treatment plan. The breakthrough came

during her our years in Dr. Kartik Chandran’s laboratory when they

identied a protein on healthy cells that can act as a portal or the

deadly virus, which kills up to 90 percent o inected patients.

Rabbi Benjamin Blech is an internationally recognized educa-

Points o Light Shine

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 Daniel Simkin, a budding entrepreneur at Sy Syms, let his studies in

Venezuela in search o a Jewish environment.

Mandate to Matter

Continued on Page 7 ç Nearly 75% o undergraduate students received scholarship support in 2012–13.

Yeshiva University Extends $1 Billion Capital Campaign to Raise Additional $400 Millionin Undergraduate Scholarships

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Online Master’s Brings Azrieli

Training to Educators Worldwide

YESHIVA UNIVERSITY

∞ SPRING 2013

∞ VOLUME 17 • NO. 1

DR. HENRY KRESSEL

Chairman, YU Board of Trustees

RICHARD M. JOEL DR. NORMAN LAMM

President Chancellor 

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Executive Director of Communications and Public Affairs

YUTODAY

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Contributors

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YUToday is published quarterly by the Oce o Communications and Public Aairs and isdistributed ree to aculty, sta, students, alumni, donors and riends. It keeps them inormedo news rom across Yeshiva University’s undergraduate and graduate divisions and aliates.

The quarterly newsletter covers academic and campus lie, aculty and student research, com-munity outreach and philanthropic support. It showcases the University’s mission o TorahUmadda, the combination o Jewish study and values with secular learning, through stories

about the diverse achievements o the University community.

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Stanley I. Raskas, Chairman, Board o Overseers, Yeshiva College; Shira Yoshor, Chairman, Boardo Overseers, Stern College or Women; Alan Kestenbaum, Chairman, Board o Overseers, SySyms School o Business; Ruth L. Gottesman, Chair, Board o Overseers, Albert Einstein Collegeo Medicine; Leslie E. Payson, Chair, Board o Overseers, Benjamin N. Cardozo School o Law;Froma Beneroe, Chair, Board o Overseers, Wurzweiler School o Social Work; Mordecai D.Katz, Chairman, Board o Overseers, Bernard Revel Graduate School o Jewish Studies; CarolBravmann, Chair, Board o Overseers, Ferkau Graduate School o Psychology; Moshael J. Straus,Chairman, Board o Overseers, Azrieli Graduate School o Jewish Education and Administration;Joel M. Schreiber, Chairman, Board o Trustees, (aliate) Rabbi Isaac Elchanan TheologicalSeminary; Miriam P. Goldberg, Chairman, Board o Trustees, YU High Schools; Michael Jesselsonand Theodore N. Mirvis, Co-Chairs, Board o Directors, (aliate) Yeshiva University Museum.

Board listings as o January 5, 2013.

Time and place are no longer barriers to earn-

ing an advanced degree rom the premier

institution o Jewish education in North

America. Yeshiva University’s Azrieli Graduate

School o Jewish Education and Administration

has launched Azrieli Online, its rst online

master’s program.

The classes or this 36-credit degree are asyn-

chronous—that is, they will accommodate stu-

dents’ work and teaching schedules and ree them

rom being bound to a specic time or location, in

addition to granting them access to renowned ex-

perts in Jewish education around the world. Mostimportant, it will provide the same rigorous, high-

quality advanced training or which Azrieli is re-

nowned, including its pioneering coursework in

elds such as dierentiated instruction, cognition

and assessment, all geared toward limudei kodesh 

[Judaic studies].

“In my work with schools all across the conti-

nent, teachers and administrators tell me,

‘We’d love to attend Azrieli, but we are in

 Vancouver or Dallas or Miami, and relocat-

ing to New York, even or a summer, is dif-

cult,’ ” said Dr. Jerey Glanz, who directs

the master’s programs at Azrieli and holds

the Raine and Stanley Silverstein Chair in

Proessional Ethics and Values. “Azrieli On-

line allows us to reach out to those who

can’t physically be here and enhances the

proessionalism o Jewish educators world-

wide by exposing them to our stellar aculty

and innovative curriculum.”

Azrieli Dean David J. Schnall noted

that the school already oered ve online

courses in all 2012, including two taughtby Jerusalem-based instructor Dr. Ilana

Turetsky.

“This initiative allows us to employ

ull-time and adjunct aculty rom many dierent

locations and to expand quality a nd access or our

students,” said Schnall. “In doing this we also

model or our students the use o distance tech-

nology in their own schools, encouraging t hem to

collaborate across geographic boundaries in pro-

viding a more advanced or wider variet y o classes

and projects, especially to smaller schools whose

students might otherwise be deprived.”

Candidates or Azrieli Online should possess

a bachelor’s degree rom an accredited institu-

tion, have a strong background in Jewish studies

and live in a community with an Azrieli-approvedJewish day school or yeshiva where they can

complete their eldwork and student teaching.

The application and interview process can be

completed online. n

k For more inormation, visit www.yu.edu/azrieli/online-courses or email azrieli@yu.edu

Maccabees’ Halpert Nets 400th Win

YU men’s basketball coach Dr. Jonathan

Halpert has recorded his 400th career

victory—becoming just the seventh men’s

basketball coach in New York City history to do

so. The Maccabees achieved the milestone on

December 6, 2012, with a 72–50 win over Mari-

time College on the court named in Halpert’s

honor at the Max Stern Athletic Center.

Halpert, a two-time Coach o the Year winner

in the Skyline Conerence, took over the Macca-

bees roster in 1972 and is the longest tenured men’s

basketball coach in New York

City history.

He joins a select group o 

New York City men’s college

basketball coaches with 400 or

more victories, including his

close riend, legendary St. John’s

coach Lou Carnesecca, who re-

tired with 526 wins.

“I have always believed that

a true measure o success is con-

sistency,” said Halpert, a ormer

Maccabee point guard, and a

graduate o Yeshiva University

High School or Boys, Yeshiva

College and Ferkau Graduate

School o Humanities and So-

cial Sciences. “Four hundred

wins means a lot to me, because

despite the constraints o Yeshiva’s dual academic

curriculum, I have been able to give countless

young men the opportunity to compete and win.”

“For our decades, Coach Halpert has imbued

the Macs and the entire Yeshiva community with

the values o sportsmanship, teamwork and Jewish

pride,” said Yeshiva University President Richard

M. Joel. “He has taught our players so much more

than how to win and how to play the game o bas-

ketball the right way—he has taught them how to

live their lives.” n

 Jonathan Halpert ’62YUHS, ’66YC, ’78F, seated with his wie Aviva, celebrates

400 victories at Yeshiva.

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Four Roshei Yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan

Theological Seminary (RIETS) who have exten-

sive experience with end-o-lie halachic issues

are oering consultation to community rabbis and ob-

servant Jewish amilies.

Rabbi Herschel Schachter, Rabbi Yaakov Neuber-

ger, Rabbi Mordechai Willig and Rabbi Moshe Tendler

serve on a rotating basis as pre-hospice advisers as parto the YU-RIETS End-o-Lie Care Halachic Advisory

Program, ormed in collaboration with Calvary Hospital.

“There is a pressing need in the Orthodox com-

munity or accurate and thorough inormation on the

conditions under which end-o-lie care should be pro-

vided,” said Dr. Edward Burns, executive dean o YU’s

Albert Einstein College o Medicine, who conceived

the program. “Regardless o where a person chooses to

seek hospice care, Yeshiva University’s End-o-Lie Care

Halachic Advisory Program is designed to answer their

questions. Our decision to collaborate with Calvary rec-

ognizes the unmatched quality o care that every patient

receives there and the sta ’s commitment to the hospi-

tal’s mission.”

Ater a physician has recommended that a termi-

nally ill individual receive hospice care, a community

rabbi or amily member who may be unamiliar with the

intricate halachot [Jewish laws] in this area can request a

consultation with the program.

A panel o physicians associated with Einstein and

its afliates is also available to advise community rab-

bis on the clinical issues surrounding the terminally

ill. The medical panel includes Dr. Burns, Dr. Seymour

Hubereld, Dr. Beth Popp, Dr. Edward Reichman and

Dr. Robert Sidlow.“Since the hospital was ounded more than 113 years

ago, Calvary has embraced the opportunity to care or

people rom all religious backgrounds,” said Frank Cala-

mari, president and chie executive ofcer o Calvary

Hospital. “We are condent that our collaboration with

 Yeshiva University will provide the Orthodox commu-

nity with the inormation they need to make the right

healthcare decisions or their loved ones.”

Calvary’s Bronx acility is now included in the Ein-

stein and Pelham Parkway eruv. Its range o services or

observant Jewish amilies includes pastoral care by two

sta rabbis who are RIETS graduates; kosher meals in-

cluding cholov yisroel dairy products upon request; a

locked kosher ood pantry with two microwave ovens,

rerigerator and sink; and Shabbat and Jewish holiday

observances. n

k For more inormation, please visit www.yu.edu/riets/end-o-lie-care

As colleagues and students on the Wil campus in

New York watched online and cheered him on,

Rabbi Ezra Frazer, an instructor o Hebrew at

 Yeshiva College who i s pursui ng a PhD in Bible at t he

Bernard Revel Graduate School o Jewish Studies, took

second place in the International Chidon Hatanach

(Bible Contest) or Adults.

The contest at the International Convention Cen-

ter in Jerusalem on December 12, 2012 was the rst

such competition in 32 years. Twenty-seven experts on

Tanach rom around the world gathered in Jerusalem

during the week o Hanukkah to participate. A written

test two days earlier selected 16 o them to appear in the

televised event on December 12.

Frazer described his week in Israel as “a tremen-

dous opportunity to meet Jews rom all over the world

and to learn about their diverse communities. And, o 

course, it was an incredible experience to see thousands

o people—including the prime minister—ll a conven-

tion center to watch a contest that ocuses on mastering 

the Bible.” n

k For more inormation about Revel, please visit www.yu.edu/revel

 Revel PhD Candidate and YC Instructor Places Second in International Tanach Contest

RIETS, Einstein FormEnd-o-Lie CareHalachic AdvisoryProgram

Bible Quiz Wiz

 Rabbi Ezra Frazer

The Jewish Book Council has

named City o Promises: A

 History o the Jews o New

York (NYU Press, September

2012) recipient o The Everett

Family Foundation Jewish Book

o the Year Award.

The three-volume work—

with contributions rom Jerey

S. Gurock, Libby M. Klaperman

Proessor o Jewish History at Yeshiva University,

as well as Howard B. Rock, Annie Polland and DanielSoyer—explores the relationship Jews have had with

New York City and how they have been a visible a nd in-

tegral part o the city’s culture, economy and politics,

beginning with the rst Jews to arrive to New Amster-

dam in 1654, and moving throug h history to present day.

Gurock’s volume, Jews in Gotham: New York Jews

in a Changing City, 1920–2010, is the third in the series

and ocuses on neighborhoods, exploring Jewish lie

within the street s o the metropolis and showcasing the

reasons or New York’s continued pre-eminence as the

capital o American Jews.

“I am gratied by this recognition o my work and

the collaborative eorts that made City o Promises a joy

to write,” said Gurock. “I am also grate ul or the oppor-

tunity our University has provided me to teach my stu-

dents and write my books in an atmosphere that values

Jewish studies. This is not the rst time a YU academic

has been so honored and will not be the last.” n

Gurock Co-AuthorsBook o the Year

 Dr. Jerey S. Gurock

Yeshiva University’s Zahava and Moshael Straus Center or Torah and Western Thought

hosted Proessor Alan M. Dershowitz on November 20 or a program titled “From Sodom

to Nuremberg: A Conversation About Genesis, Justice and Law.” A world-renowned lawyer

and political commentator, Dershowitz addressed topics ranging rom capital punishment

and post-Holocaust Germany to the recent Gaza War and Dershowitz’s own role in the

deense o O.J. Simpson.

On November 30, Chie Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks and Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik, director

o the Straus Center, discussed Torah, law and literature in an event titled “The Merchant o 

Venice: A Jewish and British Reection.” 

Straus Center Welcomes Dershowitz, Sacks

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Seorim Sale sta with Dr. Yael ’93S and Rabbi Jonathan Muskat ’94YC, ’94BR, ’97R (center).

Stern and Yeshiva College Faculty Secure Nearly

$2.4M in Scientic Grants

 Funding Will Involve Students in Research

to Solve Real-World Problems

Five proessors at Yeshiva University’s undergradu-

ate colleges helped secure nearly $2.4 million in

shared scientic grants.

The grants range in ocus rom breast cancer re-

search to alternative uel solutions and will provide

undergraduates with more opportunities than ever to

engage in rsthand scientic study, hear rom experts in

the eld and collaborate with other universities.

“One o the missions o the University is not only to

educate our students in the great achievements o sci-

ence and culture but also to show them how this knowl-

edge is generated and evolves every day,” said Dr. Gabriel

Cwilich, chair o YU’s division o natural sciences and

mathematics. “The way to do that is to have a strong ac-ulty, very much engaged in research, at the oreront o 

their disciplines so that they can teach the students both

in the classroom and working beside them in the lab.

“Each o these grants provides some mechanism to

advance these goals,” Cwilich continued, “be it allowing 

us to buy equipment, provide or research support per-

sonnel, postdoctoral collaborators or trips or aculty

and students to attend scientic meetings.”

Dr. Anatoly Frenkel, proessor o physics at Stern

College or Women, was named a co-principal inves-

tigator in a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant

titled “Iridium-Based Alloys as Alternative Catalysts or

Ethanol Oxidation Fuel Cell Reactions.” The three-year

grant or $573,000 will pay or undergraduate summer

research and innovations in Frenkel’s courses to study

alternative uel sources.

“The project outcome will directly support the na-

tion’s eort to diversiy its energy supply portolio and

help reduce the global carbon ootprint,” said Frenkel.“More important, the research will be coupled with an

educational program dedicated to training and teaching 

students rom the participating universities in advance

synthesis, characterization and theoretical methods.”

Dr. Jianeng Jiang, associate proessor o chemistry

at Yeshiva College, received a three-year NSF-Research

in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) grant or $110,000

rom a chemical catalysis program. The project is titled

“Study o the Reaction Between NO and CO in the Pres-

ence o Double Metal Cyanide or the Potential Appli-

cation o Emission Control Catalyst” and will support

students participating in on-campus summer research

with paid stipends. The grant will also enable them to

travel to meetings and conerences and cover the cost o 

chemicals and supplies needed or their research.

“We hope that rom our undamental study, we candevelop some economical catalysts to replace the pre-

cious metals currently used in the catalytic converter in

every car,” said Jiang. “With the help o the NSF, our stu-

dents will have the opportunity to participate in hands-

on experimental research, gain access to state-o-the-art

instrumentation and exposure to the rontier o science.

They will also have the opportunity to try to solve real-

world problems and present their ndings at regional or

national meetings.”

Dr. Sumanta Goswami, proessor o biology at Ye-

shiva College, is one o three co-principal investiga-

tors who will work together on a $1.4 million our-year

grant rom the National Cancer Institute that ocuses on

breast cancer research. The other two investigators in

this grant are rom YU’s Albert Einstein College o Medi-

cine. Titled “Novel Approach to Study Intravasation in

Primary Human Breast Cancer Cells,” the grant will pro-

vide money or reagents and a technician at Yeshiva Col-

lege or our years, as well as opportunities or studentsto interact and work with the clinicians and scientists at

Einstein. They will also gain access to cutting-edge labo-

ratories, where they will ocus on developing new ap-

proaches to investigating the biology o metastasis using 

human breast cancer cells.

An RUI grant rom the National Science Founda-

tion to Dr. Neer Asherie, associate proessor o phys-

ics and biology at Yeshiva College, was renewed or an

additional three years. Titled “Chirality and the Phase

Behavior o Globular Proteins,” the $275,000 grant

will pay or on-campus student research in biophysics

as well as student presentations at national and inter-

national conerences. It will also provide students with

opportunities to publish their work in top scientic

 journals and gain exposure to the research environ-

ments at PhD-granting institutions and national labo-ratories through collaborative projects.

Dr. Wenxiaong Chen, proessor o mathematical

sciences at Yeshiva College, received a ve-year Col-

laboration Grant or Mathematicians rom the Simons

Foundation. Called “Nonlinear Elliptic PDEs and In-

tegral Systems,” the $35,000 grant includes unds

to enhance the general research environment o the

mathematics department, including support or de-

partmental colloquia and seminars as well as other re-

search-related amenities.

“All o the YU science aculty view external grants

as an opportunity to contribute to the solution o the

most important and challenging scientic problems that

concern our society,” said Frenkel. “These grants, and

the internship opportunities they provide, benet our

students by extending their classroom experience into

real-lie science and research.” n

 Dr. Anatoly Frenkel Dr. Jianeng Jiang Dr. Sumanta Goswami Dr. Neer Asherie Dr. Wenxiaong Chen

Seorim Sale Benefts Shuls Damaged by Sandy

YU students used their annual Seorim Sale as an opportunity

to give back.

As part o their Seorim4Sandy campaign, sale organizers

decided to donate a portion o their proceeds to help shuls aected

by Hurricane Sandy. “Ater Sandy struck, we decided nothing was

more appropriate than giving back to the community and helping

rebuild damaged libraries,” said Yehuda Kaminer, CEO o the

Seorim Sale.Ater a Facebook contest yielded more than 3,000 votes in

two weeks, Long Island’s Young Israel o Oceanside was selected

to receive $10,000 worth o books and seorim. The shul, which

lost three Torah scrolls and thousands o seorim during the storm,

received more than 1,400 online votes. “We are grateul to the

students o Yeshiva University or helping our community in a

concrete and meaningul way,” said Young Israel Rabbi Jonathan

Muskat ’94YC, ’94BR, ’97R. “This donation demonstrates YU’s

commitment to both talmud Torah and klal Yisrael and we are so

thrilled to be the beneciary o YU’s chesed [kindness].”

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When Nick Muzin ’97YC, ’01E was growing up in Toronto, ew Cana-

dians attended Yeshiva University. But ater learning about YU rom

Admissions Director Michael Kranzler when he went to recruit in

Toronto, Muzin decided the opportunity to combine a top-rate college edu-

cation with Yeshiva learning, in New York City, was just too good to pass up.

He had attended Jewish day school and then Ner Israel Yeshiva High School,

ater which he studied at the Talmudical Yeshiva o Philadelphia, and his par-

ents encouraged him to continue his Jewish education at YU.

At Yeshiva College, Muzin’s ocus was on pre-med, but many o the

classes he ound most compelling were in the humanities. “I was especially

close with the late Rabbi Walter Wurzburger z”l, with whom I took multiple

courses in philosophy,” said Muzin. “I also enjoyed Bible with Dr. Moshe

Bernstein, constitutional law with Dr. Michael Hecht and intellectual his-

tory with Rabbi Shalom Carmy.” He also ondly remembers the shiurim [lec-

tures] he attended with rebbeim such as Rabbi Herschel Shachter and RabbiMoshe Tendler.

Muzin also took advantage o the many extracurricular opportunities

at YU, including serving as editor in chie o The Commentator, which he said

was great un and good preparation or his job today, which involves dealing 

with the media. He also ounded the Community Literacy Club, in which

students served as tutors in a local elementary school.

Ater graduat ing, Muzin pursued his interest in medicine at YU’s Albert

Einstein College o Medicine, where he received a u ll our-year scholarship;

however, he soon discovered he had another interest . “When I sta rted work-

ing in hospitals such as Monteore Medical Center in the Bronx, I saw rst-

hand many o the challenges acing physicians and patients, and started to

think about how these might be addressed at the public policy level,” he said.

“I always had a passion or politics and gu red that as a physician, I had a lot

to contribute to this discussion.” Following a year as an internal medicine

intern and gett ing certied as a physician, Muzi n decided to attend Yale Law

School.

Ater Muzin married Andrea Zucker, they spent a ew years living in

Charleston, SC. It was there that he met Tim Scott, the rst black Republi-

can elected to the state legislature in South Carolina since Reconstruction,

and, according to Muzin, a man o tremendous charisma and political tal-

ent. They became riends and Muzin, together with others, helped convince

Scott to run or Congress, serving as his policy director and deputy cam-

paign manager.

When Scott won—deeating the son o the legendary Senator Strom

Thurmond in the primary—Muzin moved to Washington, D.C., to serve as

chie o sta. They also ounded a PAC together with the goal o broaden-

ing their eorts and helping Republican candidates around the country. The

PAC played a role in over 100 congressional and Senate races around the

country, including the Romney campaign.

“Tim and I are aligned on the policy issues that are most important to

us—Israel, health care and tax reorm,” said Muzin. “He is a good riend, and

we trust each other, something t hat is dicult to nd in Washing ton.”

But being an Orthodox Jew on the Hill is not easy. “O all the jobs I’ve

had, politics is the one in which it is most challenging to be rum [Orthodox],”

said Muzin. “Saturday is the busiest day o the week or campaign act ivities,

and Friday night votes in Congress are not unusual. In addition, much o the

culture and liestyle on Capitol Hill—which idolizes power—is antithetical

to a Torah perspective.”

As an evangelical Christian, Scott has great respect or Judaism, mak-

ing sure Muzin gets out o the oce in time or Shabbat and that he has

kosher ood to eat when they travel. “He even ma kes sure I keep up with Da  

 Yomi, asking me ater a particu larly long day on the campaign trail, ‘Did you

read your page today?’”

For Muzin, the sacrices are worthwhile, because politics oers an

unmatched opportunity to do good—whether it’s or individuals who need

help with the ederal gov-

ernment or in advancing 

policies that strengthen

America. Muzin is proud

to say that his oce played

a lead role in securing or-eign aid unding or Israel,

including or the Iron

Dome missile shield, and

in passing economic sanc-

tions on Iran.

The end o 2012 saw

promotions or both Scott

and Muzin. Scott was

appointed to the U.S. Sen-

ate by South Carolina Gov-

ernor Nikki Haley, lling the vacancy let by the retirement o Senator Jim

DeMint. Muzin’s work was recognized by Republican congressional leader-

ship, who named him director o strategy and coalitions or the 113th Con-

gress. In his new role, Muzin will oversee communications and outreach or

all 234 Republican members o Congress. Scott and Muzin continue to work

together through their PAC and other national political activities.Last year, Muzin reconnected with YU and hosted an alumni recep-

tion in his home in Silver Spring, MD, where he lives with his wie a nd their

three children: Stella, age 5; Daisy Fay, 3; and Jerry, 1. He davens [prays] at

the Yeshiva o Greater Washington, and he and his amily are members o 

Kemp Mill Synagogue.

He and Andrea also attended the YU ChampionsGate conerence this

past summer. “It was a great opportunity to catch up with riends, relive the

 YU experience through the shiurim and ruach [spirit], and get a sense o the

challenges acing Modern Orthodoxy and how YU is meeting those chal-

lenges,” he said.

Last all, Muzin joined the Yeshiva College Board o Overseers. “I have

a lot o hakaras hatov [gratitude] to YU, having beneted rom scholarships

both as an undergraduate and while in medical school,” he said. “I loved my

time there and hope my children will attend one day. But more important,

I think that YU embodies who I am—a Torah Jew who is trying to make an

impact in the modern world. I hope that by joini ng the board I can help i nfu-

ence the direction o the school so that other students will have the oppor-

tunities I had.”

O his time at YU, Muzin said it is hard to ully appreciate YU while you

are there as a student, because you are so busy all the time—studying or an

exam, running to shiurim or catching a shuttle to Stern College or a date.

But he praises YU students, say ing, “I don’t think you can nd a more accom-

plished or ner group o peers than the st udents at YU. No place I have been

since can really compare.”

He advises current students to take in as much as they can. “The Gema-

rah in Brachos (5b) teaches that ‘ Lo Kol Adam Zocheh LeShnei Shulchanos ’—

‘Not every person merits to eat rom two tables’—the table o the material

world and the table o the spiritual world. The students at YU a re privileged

to east rom both.” n

Nick Muzin ’97YC, ’01E:Doctor, Lawyer, Political Strategist

“I have a lot o hakaras

hatov [gratitude] to YU,having benefted rom

scholarships both as an

undergraduate and while

in medical school... ”

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Ellen and Rabbi Aaron Brander ’59Rannounce the birth o their great-grand-daughter, born to Atara and Motie Edelstein.Mazel tov to grandparents Malka andMoshe Weiss and Ettie and Saul Edelstein.

Sarah ’55YUHS, ’58TI and Rabbi Hersh

Moses Galinsky ’51YUHS, ’55YC, ’58Rcelebrated the bar mitzvah o theirgrandson, David Chaim Shtul; the birth otheir great-grandson, Shiloh TzurielGalinsky; the marriage o their grandson,Evyatar Ozer Shtul; and the engagement otheir grandson, Ahiya Chovav Galinsky.

Dr. Seymour Homan ’52YUHS, ’58Fco-edited Psychotherapy o Haredi Patients:

Case Presentations (Hebrew) and Case

Studies o Unorthodox Therapy o Orthodox 

Patients (Golden Sky Books, 2012).

 

Yeshiva University Board o TrusteesChair Dr. Henry Kressel ’55YCrecently co-authored a book,Entrepreneurship in the Global 

Economy: Engine or Economic Growth (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

The book explores the tensionsand competitive advantages anddisadvantages o entrepreneurshipin both developed countries andemerging economic giants such asChina. Kressel and co-author ThomasL. Vento, ounder and president oInterComm, analyze the crucial issueso state planning versus ree enterpriseand examine specifc problemssurrounding entrepreneurship in theglobal economy through nine casehistories o entrepreneurial companies.The book also looks at how and whygovernment gets involved in economicgrowth and how entrepreneurscontribute to economic value.

Kressel is a senior partner at WarburgPincus LLC, a global private equity frm,

where he is responsible or investmentsin high technology companies. Aworld-recognized expert in electronicdevices, he holds 31 U.S. patents andled pioneering research on lasers,transistors, solar cells and otherdevices. The recipient o severalproessional awards, he was elected tomembership in the National Academyo Engineering and is a Fellow o theAmerican Physical Society. Beore

 joining Warburg Pincus in 1983, he wasvice president at the RCA Corporation,responsible or electronics research.

Kressel graduated Yeshiva College in1955 and was elected chairman o theBoard o Trustees in 2009—the frstalumnus ever to serve as its chairman.

He joined the board in 2005 and hassince chaired its Academic AairsCommittee and served on the boardo the Sy Syms School o Business.

“How ortunate we are at YeshivaUniversity to have a Chairman o theBoard who is not only a pillar in thebusiness world but also a true scholarin terms o his academic and researchinvolvement,” said YU PresidentRichard M. Joel. “Overarching all othat is his passion and commitmentto Jewish lie, Jewish education, andYeshiva University.”

Elke ’59YUHS and Nachman Kupietzky ’55YUHS, ’59YC announce the marriage otheir granddaughter, Eliana, daughter oDaphne and Michael Kupietzky, to Yoni, sono Aviva ’72YUS, ’88S and Benny Adler ’86YC.

Rabbi Haskel Lookstein ’58R, ’77BR washonored with the 2012 Gershom MendesSeixas Award at the Columbia/BarnardHillel. Rabbi Lookstein’s 11 CDs on “How toDaven as a Ba’al Teflah” will be availableonline at www.ramaz.org/nusach.

Chaya (Heschel) ’59S and Elihu Marcus ’53YC, ’56R, ’99F announce the marriageo their granddaughters: Sari, daughter oYedida and Amnon Ginsburg, to Oren; andTal, daughter o Debbie and ShlomoBreitbard, to Shimon.

Marlene and Dr. Yale

Port ’53YC, ’56R, ’59Fannounce the birth otheir great-granddaugh-ter, Meitav, born to theirgrandchildren, Shoshanaand Joey Elbogen. Mazel

tov also to grandparents Evelyn ’74YUHS,’83W and Milton Elbogen ’74YUHS, ’83W,and Chaya and Chaim Korn.

Shoshana and Rabbi Hershel Schachter ’58YUHS,’62YC,’67R announce themarriage o their daughter, Shira, to AharonFeldman, and the birth o their grandson,Yose Shlomo, born to Shay and RenaSchachter.

Freida and Rabbi Elihu Schatz ’50YUHS,’54YC, ’57RE announce the birth o their51st grandchild, a son to Tziporah andPincas Schatz. Rabbi Schatz publishedthree books in Hebrew: Commentary on the

Yearly Hatorot, Commentary on the Special 

Letters o the Tanach , and Prayers Based on

the Psalms and other Books o the Tanach.

Calvin Soled ’51YCannounces the barmitzvah o hisgrandson, YairNechemya, son oAmy (Soled) ’80YUHS, ’84S andElliot Wasserman 

’84YC. Mazel tov to siblings Moshe ’14YC,Tziporah and Shulamit.

Rabbi Dr. JosephSungolowsky ’55YC,’58R published his article,“Bastille Day and theJews o France,” in theJuly 13 Jewish Star ,covering the signifcanceo Bastille Day, anniver-sary o the FrenchRevolution, as it relates

to Jewish history. Rabbi Sungolowsky isa proessor o French and Jewish studiesat Queens College, City University oNew York.

1960s Rena (AvRutick)

’62S andRabbi Richard

Barth ’57YUHS, ’61YC, ’64R, ’64BRannounce the birth o their great-grandchil-dren, twins born to Leia and Avi Goldstein.

 Rabbi Reuven G.

Becker ’64YUHS,’68YC, ’71F, ’71Rpublished his book, You

 Are Your Parents’ Keeper:

Hashkac and Halachic

Insights into Elder Care

and Kibbud Av Va’Eim

(Feldheim 2012).

Rabbi Jack Bieler ’69YC, ’74R, ’74F waspresented with the Rabbi Jacob andDeborah Rubenstein Memorial Award or2012 at the November 2012 meeting o theRabbinical Council o America ExecutiveMeeting.

Dr. Raphael Bloch ’63YC, ’63TI, ’67Epublished Healers

and Achievers:Physicians Who

Excelled in Other 

Fields and the Times

in Which They Lived  (Xlibris 2012). Thebook is a series o37 biographies ophysicians

throughout history, rom ancient Egypt to the21st century, with unique and lastingnon-medical achievements.

Marcia (Davis) ’66S and Rabbi Yitzhak 

Frank ’61YC, ’65F, ’65R announce the birtho their granddaughter, Herut, born toShlomit and Chaim Frank.

Sonia ’62S and Rabbi Mallen Galinsky 

’61F announce the b’nai mitzvah o theirgrandsons, Avraham David and MordechaiHillel, and the b’not mitzvah o theirgranddaughters, Malka and Rivka Ruth.

Dr. Stanord M.

Goldman ’61YC,’61TI, ’65E wasrecently named anemeritus proessor atUniversity o TexasSchool o Medicine inHouston, TX. Dr.Goldman alsoreceived the Albert

Einstein Distinguished Alumnus Awardin 1996 and has been chairman ovarious departments or over 23 yearsincluding John Hopkins Bayview MedicalCenter and the University o Texas

Medical Center.

Rabbi Dr. Wallace Greene ’62YUHS,’66YC, ’69R, ’79BR has been appointedmanaging director o the Adolph SchreiberHebrew Academy o Rockland (ASHAR).Ater almost 60 years in Monsey, the yeshivarecently moved to New City.

Marcia ’69S and Rabbi David Jacobowitz ’69YC, ’71R announce the birth o theirgrandson, Avraham Yeshaya, born to Batyaand Rabbi Moshe Jacobowitz ’02YC.

Dr. Eva Kahana ’62S wasrecognized by CaseWestern ReserveUniversity with the title oDistinguished University

Proessor, a top honor orits proessoriate. Dr.Kahana is a renownedscholar on elderly careissues and is known or

her research on resilience among elderly anddisabled persons.

Bob Kolb ’67YC exhibited20 o his fne artphotographs at the ArtFusion Gallery in Miamithrough December 2012.The eclectic exhibitprinted on aluminum

ranges rom Judaic to abstract.

YOUR NEWS IS OUR NEWS!

Class Notes is where YU celebrates themilestones and accomplishments o itsalumni. In this section, you can catch upon everything your classmates have beenup to over the years, rom marriagesand births to proessional and personalachievements.

Submit your class note by e-mailingalumni@yu.edu with the subjectline “Class Notes,” or by visitingwww.yu.edu/alumni/notesto completethe online orm. We hope that you enjoyreading about your ellow alumni andriends, and we look orward to hearingabout your achievements.

1930s 

Rabbi Sidney Kleiman ’31YUHS,’35YC, ’36R announces the marriage ohis great-granddaughter. Rabbi Kleimanwas merited with the frst blessingunder the wedding canopy. He alsocelebrated his 100th birthday inJanuary.

1940s 

Rabbi Irving Greenberg ’45YUHS was thekeynote speaker at the Ethel LeFrakHolocaust Education Conerence at Seton

Hill University. His topic was “ We Have NotBeen Saved: The Unfnished Agenda oNever Again.”

Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm ’49YC, ’51R,’66BR published a new book, Derashot 

Ledorot, A Commentary or the Ages:

Genesis (Maggid, 2012).

1950s 

In commemoration o the 60th anniversaryo the German government compensationprogram to survivors o the Holocaust,Rabbi Julius Berman ’56YC, ’59R,chairman emeritus o RIETS, and GermanMinister o Finance Wolgang Schäuble,signed an agreement with the Conerenceon Jewish Material Claims Against Germanyto continue the compensation programs.

Rabbi Benjamin Blech ’54YC, ’56R delivered thekeynote address at theJewish Board o Familyand Children’s Services’25th Annual Conerenceon Visiting the Sick. The

conerence theme was “Face-to-FaceMeets Facebook: Paths to One Purpose inBikur Cholim.” Rabbi Blech published twoarticles relating to Hurricane Sandy on Aish.com, “Why did Hurricane Sandy suddenlyturn average citizens into heroes?” and“Why the key to rain remains in God’shands.”

Pearl ’52YUHS and Rabbi Aaron Borow ’55YC, ’59BR, ’59R announce the birth otheir great grandson, born to Reut andMoshe Borow. Mazel tov to grandparentsMalki and Rabbi Yaakov Borow ’86YC,’89BR, ’90R and great grandather Dr.Aaron Friedman ’37YC.

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Ruth ’69YUHS, ’73S, ’77F, ’92A and RabbiElchanan Lipshitz ’67YUHS, ’71YC, ’76F,’77R announce the birth o their grand-daughter, Tchiyah, born to Kedma and EliLipshitz.

Jeanne Litvin ’69S announces that Jewish

Identity , originally edited by Baruch Litvin andSidney Hoenig and published in 1965, isavailable on the Ktav website. The newedition has a orward by Rabbi Kenneth

Brander ’84YC, ’86R, the David MitznerDean o YU’s Center or the Jewish Future, ahistorical introduction by Dr. LawrenceSchiman, vice provost or undergraduateeducation at YU, and an aterward by Rabbi

Michael Broyde ’82YUHS, ’84YC, ’93R.Jeanne also created KosherWoman.comwith a group o rabbis and proessionalwomen and continues to organize and host

Passover programs.

Cheryl (Ritter) ’68YUHS, ’72S, ’73F andChaim Nunberg announce the birth o theirgranddaughter, Tehila Rivka, born to Tamar

(Bomzer) ’96S and Dov Goldblatt ’93YC.

Chana ’67S and Rabbi Moshe Poupko ’69R announce the marriage o their son,Akiva, to Shevy David.

Cantor Seymour Rocko ’63B, ’63YC, ’68Rreceived the Dr. Karl Adler Memorial Awardor Preservation and Enhancement o JewishMusic Education at the annual convention othe Cantorial Council o America, an afliateo the Belz School o Jewish Music.

Charlene and Rabbi Dr. Bernhard

Rosenberg ’69YC, ’74R, ’74F, ’92A andJackie and Alan Kelin announce the birth otheir granddaughter, born to their grandchil-dren, Avital and Yaakov Rosenberg. Inaddition, Rabbi Rosenberg will be honored byCongregation Beth El in Edison, NJ orserving as its rabbi or 23 years and orserving the Jewish community or 38 years.The congregation is celebrating its 60thanniversary.

Dr. Gary Schi ’64YUHS,’68YC, ’68TI published In

Search o Polin: Chasing 

Jewish Ghosts in Today’s

Poland (Peter LangPublishing, 2012), ahistory o Polish Jewrythat includes his ownamily’s roots going back

hundreds o years. Thebook is part o a new series o publicationsunder the auspices o the Institute orReligion, Politics, and Culture o WashingtonCollege (ounded 1782) in Chestertown,Maryland, where Dr. Schi is adjunctproessor o history and also serves ascantor and religious leader o theChestertown Havurah.

Dr. Moshe Sokolow ’64YUHS, ’69YC,’74BR published his article, “A Jewish Viewo Hurricanes,” in the Jewish Ideas Dailynewsletter (November 1).

Helen and Richard Stareshesky ’65YUHS,’69YC, ’78F were honored by the YoungIsrael o Passaic or their 40 years o serviceprior to making aliyah.

1970s 

Donna and Philip Bendheim ’70YUHScelebrated the wedding o their son, Chezki,to Tamar Rohatiner.

 

Dr. Joel Berg ’78YC wasnamed dean o theUniversity o WashingtonSchool o Dentistry.

Rabbi Mark Dratch ’79YC, ’82F, ’82R, ’12Whas been appointedexecutive vice presidento the Rabbinical Councilo America.

Judy ’78S and Rabbi Zalman Eisenstock  ’76YC have been living in Erat or 20 yearsand are proud parents o fve children andnine grandsons. Judy has been teachingand supervising special ed students both atMichlala in Jerusalem and at Migdal Oz.Zalman, who teaches at Michlelet Erata inJerusalem, published his frst book entitledPsalms: An Eternal Treasure in January .

Ann (Starkman) ’72S and Eliot Feldman ’72YC, ’76R announce the birth o their

grandson, Nosson Tzvi, born to Judy(Kalish) ’94SB and Joshua Feldman ’97SB.

Childhood riendsDebbie Solow

Ginsberg ’78S andFrady Wagner

Moskowitz ’81WSSW createdUncluttered DomainInc., a proessionalorganizing andsenior move

management business (www.UnclutteredDomain.com).

Dr. Lois (Schwartzarb) ’71S and Irving

Grabin ’70YC announce the birth o their

grandsons, Omer David, born to Rachel andYaron Rosenthal, and Netzach David, bornto Ilana and Raf Grabin. Mazel tov to theiraunt, Aliza Grabin ’08W.

Dr. Rosa Perla Resnick Helgot ’76W andRachel (Brenner) and Rabbi Nathaniel

Helgot ’81YUHS, ’85YC, ’89A, ’89Rannounce the marriage o their grand-daughter and niece, Revital Cecilia HayHelgot to Michael David Glasser.

 

Rabbi Ari Kahn ’78YUHS, ’83YC, ’86R,’89BR published his book, Echoes o Eden:

Seer Shmot, Salvation and Sanctity (GeenPublishing House, 2012).

Carrie and Morrie Klians ’76YC announce the birtho their grandson, SaadyaLev, born to Naomi andYehuda Kohn ’04SB.

Rabbi Gilbert S. Marks ’74YC, ’79R,’80W, author o Olive Trees and Honey:

 A Treasury o Vegetarian Recipes rom

Jewish Communities Around the World  (Wiley, 2004) and The Encyclopedia o 

Jewish Food (Wiley, 2010) presented atKosherest 2012 in Secaucus, NJ.

Ruhama and Rabbi Elazar Muskin ’78YC,’81BR, ’81R announce the marr iage o theirdaughter, Dina ’12S, to Daniel Goldberg ’13YC.

Janet (Cantor) ’74S and Fred Rivensonannounce the marriage o their daughter,Matla, to Aryeh Schleider.

Debbie ’71S and Morris Robinsonannounce the marriage o their daughter,Yehudit Kayla ’99S, to Samuel IsaacDaitch, son o Ann and Herbert Daitch, onAugust 5, 2012. Mazel tov to Samuel’ssister, Amy Daitch, his grandmother,Elisabeth Stern, and his aunt, SandraDaitch. Mazel tov to Yehudit’s siblings andtheir amilies: Daniella ’04SB and Rabbi

Avi Robinson ’08YC, ’08R and daughterChaya Shaindel; Yael Yechiel Robinson ’07YC; Ahuva ’08S and Joshua Sclair ’05SB and children Aaron “AJ” andAdrienne; Sarah Robinson; and BrachaRobinson.

Sandy (Himmelstein) ’70S and MosheSpeter announce the birth o theirgrandson, Yisroel Dovid Velvel, to TziporahMiriam and Shaya Speter.

Annette (Altman) ’72S and Rabbi Steven

Stein ’70YC, ’73R announce the marriageo their daughter, Eliana, to ShlomoLechiani.

 

Dr. Miriam Tasini ’71E published thebook, Where Are

We Going (GordianKnot, 2012).

Dvorah and Rabbi Joseph Telushkin ’70YC, ’73R, ’74BR were honored atCongregation Ramath Orah’s annual dinner.

Faygie ’72S and Rabbi Mordechai Willig ’68YC, ’71R announce the birth o theirgrandsons: Hillel, born to Adina ’02S andEliyahu Wol ’09R, and Shlomo, born toShira ’08S and David Claman. They alsocelebrated the bat mitzvah o granddaugh-ters, Ella and Tova Willig, daughters oVivian Braun ’93YUHS, ’96S and Rabbi

Raphael Willig ’98R, ’00BR, ’00YC.

Ezra Wohlgelernter ’78YC was listed byThomas Reuters as a2012 Pennsylvania Super

Lawyer in PhiladelphiaMagazine.

Annette ’74S and Rabbi Howard Wolk  ’70YUHS, ’74YC, ’77F, ’77R and Sharon

(Markowitz) ’75YUHS, ’79S and Jerry

Volk ’75YC announce the birth o their twingranddaughters: Ronit Ariana (Ruby) andSima Leah (Sydney), born to Talia ’08S andGavi Wolk ’07SB.

Toby ’75YUHS and Rabbi Dr. Jerey

Wool ’82R announce the marriage o theirson, Ariel, to Talya Drissman . Dr. Wooldelivered two keynote presentations to theJerusalem Working Group o the UnitedNations Ofce o Peace Studies andchaired the Orthodox Forum in Israel, aproject o YU’s Orthodox Forum in Israel,

which brought together leading rabbinic,academic and lay leaders to discuss theadvancement o Modern Orthodoxy in theState o Israel.

Sylvia ’73S and Dr. Abe Worenklein ’67YUHS, ’71YC announce the birth o theirgrandson, born to Naomi and Elie

Worenklein ’11C.

Mimi and Yehoshua (Joshua) Yeres ’77YUHS, ’81YC announce the marriage otheir son, Shaul, to Yisca Ariel. Mazel tov tograndparents,Rabbi Yizchak Yeres ’50YC,’90R and Dr. Tyra and Proessor MosheLieberman.

1980s 

Malke and Rabbi Yaakov Borow ’86YC,’89BR, ’90R celebrated the marriage otheir daughter, Shlomit, to ShmulikSchneider. Mazel tov to Pearl ’52YUHS andRabbi Aaron Borow ’55YC, ’59BR, ’59Rand Terry and Dr. Aaron Friedman ’57YC.

Rabbi Kenneth Brander ’84YC, ’86Rpublished his article, “In the Eye o theStorm: Shabbat Observance during aHurricane or Severe Weather Event,” in theall 2012 Journal o Halacha and 

Contemporary Society . Rachel ’84S andRabbi Brander also announce themarriage o their son Yoni to YehuditGoldberg. Their second son Tuvia ’12YC isengaged to Miriam Apter. Yoni, Yehudit andMiriam are all students at YU.

Dr. Erica Brown ’88S published herbook, Return: Daily Inspiration rom the

Days o Awe (Koren PublishersJerusalem, 2012), and lectured at AMITon “The Big Sorry: The Components oan Authentic Apology.”

Rabbi Michael J. Broyde ’82YUHS, ’84YC, ’89R,’93R, proessor o law atEmory University, spokebeore the YU StamordCommunity Kollel andCongregation AgudathSholom community on“Divorce and Modern Lie:Understanding the

Agunah Problem in the Context o FamilyLie in America” on July 30, 2012.

Lenore S. Davis ’82YUHS, ’86S, ’89C,daughter o Susan (Bogner) ’59S andRobert Davis ’56YC, ’60BR, ’60R, receivedher LLM in tax rom New York Law School.She has a trusts and estates and elder lawpractice in New York and New Jersey and is

an adjunct proesso r o law at New YorkLaw School. The New York Law Journal  published Lenore’s article, “Power oAttorney in Perosi v. LiGreci : How Broad isBroad?” (August 2012). Lenore is theowner/editor o www.TheFiveTowns.com.

Rabbi David Etengo ’80F, ’80R, ’92Apublished his article, “Determining theOnset o Aveilut,” in the all 2012 Journal o 

Halacha and Contemporary Society .

Rabbi Nathaniel Helgot ’81YUHS, ’85YC,’89A, ’89R published Mikra and Meaning:

Studies in Bible and Its Interpretation (KorenPublishers Jerusalem, 2012) with a preaceby Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein ’53YC,’59R.

Dr. Esther’83F and

President Richard M.

Joel ’68YUHS announce the marriage otheir son, Noam ’07YC, to Leora Goodman,who will graduate rom Einstein College oMedicine this spring.

Amy (Schwartz) ’81S and Jay Lipper ’79YUHS celebrated the bar mitzvah otheir son, Aaron Jacob.

Jody ’84C and Bob Linsky announce themarriage o their son, Matthew, on March24, 2012 to Courtney Rich . Matthew wasborn during fnal exams while Jody wascompleting law school and attended Jody’slaw school graduation as a newborn.

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Alumni in Health Care Repair the WorldOne Patient at a Time

The health care industry has changed dramatically in the past ew decades and

proessional opportunities in the eld have expanded in scope to match the

new landscape. Yeshiva University alumni are seizing upon these opportuni-

ties to work in an industry that is constantly evolving and providing unique career

paths that didn’t exist 20 years ago. Read on or a look at how alumni have orged

careers in today’s health care industry.

THE GENETIC COUNSELOR:

 ALIZ A SARA ( RIC KLIS ) ZID ELL ’9 8S

While most people regularly visit general

doctors such as pediatricians and inter-

nists, ewer can say they’ve been to a

genetic counselor (GC). A GC is a special-

ized health care proessional who speaks

to patients about hereditary conditions,

explaining medical concerns associated

with a given condition and discussing 

implications or amily members.

Genetic counseling is a burgeoning 

eld in the developed world thanks to

advances in medicine and technology,

especially with respect to the mapping o 

the human genome in 2001, which helped elucidate the role o genes in our health.

Aliza Sara Zidell ’98S o Elizabeth, NJ, is a genetic counselor at Hackensack Uni-

versity Medical Center in New Jersey.

“I majored in biology at Stern and then enrolled in a graduate program in

molecular biology at the University o Medicine and Dentistry o New Jersey

(UMDNJ) with the expectation o doing research,” said Zidell. “When I wasdoing graduate work at a cancer center, however, I realized I enjoyed having 

direct involvement with patients. I completed that rst graduate program at

UMDNJ and then enrolled in a second graduate prog ram in genetic counseli ng at

the University o Maryland School o Medicine.”

Zidell recalled, “Dr. Harvey Babich, proessor o biology, and Dr. Aharon H.

Fried, associate proessor o psychology and education, were sources o abundant

encouragement to me.”

A master’s in genetic counseling requires a t wo-year program encompassing 

studies in bioethics, genetic science and embryology, as well as counseling skills

necessary to interact with a wide range o patients, many o whom nd them-

selves in very dicult situations.

Some genetic counselors are employed in research positions or by commer-

cial genetics labs. Zidell, like most genetic counselors, works in the clinical envi-

ronment. “Most patients that I see are interested in hereditary cancer risk

assessment,” she said. “For each patient, I review the personal and amily medi-

cal histories. I the history is suggestive o a specic syndrome, I order a genetictest and explain the results to the patient. I also see adult and pediatric patients

in conjunction with our department’s medical geneticists (physicians). In that

capacity, I obtain the medical hi story and ollow up with the patient according to

the geneticist’s recommendation.”

Like many doctors, nurses and other health care proessionals, genetic

counselors deal with people acing dicult news about their health. “Whi le most

o my cancer patients get better, some have a terminal illness,” Zidell said. “I’m

always moved when a patient refects on his or her lie and shares a lesson or

memory. Although some people nd that sad, I see it as a privilege to hear the

perspective o a person or whom many o lie ’s trivial mat ters have allen away.”

Zidell said that one o the biggest challenges or clinical genet ic counselors is

the cost o health care. “Genetic testing is expensive and GCs spend a lot o time

obtaining coverage or medical services on behal o patients.”

In 2011, Yeshiva University and its Albert Einstein College o Medicine

launched a joint initiative, the Program or Jewish Genetic Health, with the

vision that nobody in the Jewish community acing a genetic healt h issue shouldbe deprived o proper care due to lack o awareness, nancial barriers or di-

culty in navigati ng the health care system. Michael Stoler, a managing director at

the private-equity rm Madison Realty Capital, made a git in 2012 rom his

Foundation or Medical Evaluation & Detection to und several screenings or

Jewish people to get tested. The git allowed or the progra m’s rst-ever campus-

wide screening in April 2012. More than 100 students were tested and more than

one-third o participants were ound to be carriers o at least one Jewish genetic

disease.

THE EPIDEMIOLOGIST: JOSH VOGEL ’07YC

Josh Vogel ’07YC credits Jonathan Tucker’s book Scourge with leading him

to his current proession as an epidemiologist or the Massachusetts Department

o Public Health. “I was in junior high or hig h school when I read the book,” said

 Vogel. “Reading about the history o smallpox and how it was eventual ly eradi-

cated made me think, ‘Hey, epidemiology is pretty cool.’ There really exists a

potential to make a dierence in a lot o people’s lives. Since then, epidemiology

was always an idea at the back o my mind.”

The idea took a ew years to come to ruition. Ater graduating Maimonides

School, Vogel, a native Bostonian, studied in the Old City o Jerusalem or a year

at Netiv Aryeh. He then attended Yeshiva College, a decision that came easily or

him. “My mother went to YU, as did my NCSY advisers. The balance o rigorous

Jewish studies along with excellent secular studies was extremely important or

me, especially ollowing my yea r in Israel,” said Vogel.

Ater beginning as a pre-med major, Vogel decided to switch to psychology,

resolute that he would still choose something within a health care eld. While

excelling in his studies, Vogel also ound the time to be an active student leader as

head o the Student Organization o Yeshiva (SOY). “Heading SOY was an inte-

gral part o my growing and learning experience at YU,” said Vogel. “It laid a

good oundation or uture communal and proessional work, because learning 

about working with others and maintaining a huge responsibility are lessons that

work anywhere. These are things you can’t learn in a classroom.”

Ater graduating rom YC, Vogel quickly ound a job as program coordinator

in the Orthodox Union’s Department o Community Services where he orga-

nized events with community and social health ocuses, such as how to care or

elderly parents. “My experience at the OU really helped crystallize my desire to

enter the eld o public health,” said Vogel. “I saw how many people were inter-

ested in these tal ks and how many lives were impacted.” Not long ater, Vogel was

accepted into Boston University’s School o Public Health.

Married by then to Tama r Grun ’07S, the couple moved to Malden, a Boston

suburb, so Vogel could complete the one-and-a-hal year master’s program,

where he concentrated on health policy and mana gement.Ater Vogel was awarded his master’s, he ound employment at the Massa-

chusetts Depart ment o Public Health, as an epidemiologist I/data analyst in the

Bureau o Community Health and Pre-

vention. There, he collects data or vari-

ous ederal grants and researches data or

use in other grants and external reports;

creates computer-based tools to assist in

the collection and interpretation o health

data; and evaluates the Worksite Diabetes

Prevention Program, which links pri-

mary care a nd workplace wellness.

While Vogel is primarily assigned to

projects relating to diabetes prevention,

care and management, he notes that the

collaborative work environment in the

Department o Public Health providesopportunities to assist with other health-

related projects in reproductive health,

healthy aging, ast hma prevention, and violence and injury prevention.

“There’s no typical day or me at work,” said Vogel. “The varied natu re o my

 job keeps things interesting and I couldn’t ask or a better work environment.

Everybody is open to helping one another, listening to your ideas and supporting 

your projects. People genuinely like doing their jobs here and the positive cama-

raderie makes or a happy workplace.”

 Vogel also said that although there aren’t too many Orthodox Jews who

work in the department, everyone respects his observance and tries to order

kosher ood or scheduled lunch meetings. Vogel also has a short wa lk to a nearby

mincha minyan [aternoon prayer service] at the oces o the  Jewish Advocate, a

Boston newspaper.

 Vogel is also an active community member, volunteering or both the Boston

Medical Reserve Corps, where he is on cal l to support emergency response teams

or large-scale and unplanned events, as well as the Beth Israel o Malden, thelocal Orthodox synagogue to which his amily belongs.

 Vogel and Tamar, a marketing and communications specialist at the Brandeis

National Committee, have a son named Simcha.

“I nd it really rewarding that my work as an epidemiologist benets the

state and the entire country,” Vogel said. “My ather, an engineer, worked his

entire lie or the U.S. Air Force, and I guess you can say it’s a Vogel trait to take a

lot o pride in our country a nd serve it in any way t hat we can.”

THE NURSE: NAOMI SHARON ’09S

Naomi Sharon ’09S works as a nurse in the oncology department at Lenox Hill

Hospital in New York City. Every shit, she deals with patients sick with cancer—

a task that can be overwhelming at times.

“There are times when I’ve come home at the end o the day and cried,” said

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Sharon. “It’s incredibly dicult to nd the right balance o distancing yoursel 

 just enough to be able to do all the tasks o your job, while nding the right amounto empathy to show your patient. But at the end o the day, you need to step back

and realize the dierence you are making. The patients and their amilies oten

remind you o how much you’re doing or them, and that rea lly keeps you going.”

Sharon has a role model in her ather, a pediatric oncologist, whom she calls

“a great inspiration.” Growing up in Chicago, she observed her ather’s commit-

ment to helping those who are sick and credits him with inspiring her to pursue a

career in the health eld.

Sharon came to Stern College believing she would be a physical therapist

and majored in biology. However, ater a ew internships in the eld, arranged

through Yavneh Olami, an organization that connects American students with

Israel, she decided to change her ocus. A double stint at Hadassah Ein Kerem

Hopsital and the Macabi Clinic convinced

Sharon that nursing, with its concentra-

tion on patient care, was her goal.

Back at Stern, switching to nursing 

studies was made easier by the help o 

Proessors Jerey Mollin and Lea Santos,

both o whom were encouraging with

classroom help as well as with navigating 

the path o applying to nursing school.

Following graduation, Sharon completed

Columbia University’s School o Nursing 

and soon ound a job in the oncology

department at Lenox Hill, though it

wasn’t a specialty she had planned to pur-

sue. “Finding a good job at a New York

hospital is no easy task these days,” said

Sharon. “When I saw this job available, I decided to go or it and soon became

chemotherapy certied. I’m now studyi ng or my oncology certicate.”

Being a nurse in any department requires no small amount o vigor. “It’s a

physically demanding and exhausting job,” said Sharon. “I’m on my eet or 12

hours straight when I’m working. Additionally, at the end o the day, the nurse is

the health care provider in the hospital who has the most interaction with thepatient; because o that, you’re responsible or providing inormation and

answers to those who work both below you and above you. Though you’re not at

the top o the hierarchy, you’re responsible or the whole structure running 

smoothly.”

The most taxing thing about nursing in an oncology department is not the

physical requirements but the emotional toll. Sharon shared several stories that

illustrate how she keeps going: “There was a male, middle-aged patient who

came regularly or chemotherapy treatment, along with his wie, who was his

primary cheerleader,” she recalled. “Over time, the nurses developed relation-

ships with this couple. When the husband started to deteriorate, and it was clear

his treatment wasn’t working, most o us at the hospital were devast ated, but his

wie expressed to us their combined gratitude or helping prolong his lie. I was

there until the end o this patient’s lie, and I was sitting on the foor holding the

wie as she cried when he passed away.”

She continued, “In another insta nce, there was a woman who came or treat-

ment many times and she had no visitors—no amily, no riends. When she died, Iwas the person sitting next to her bedside, showing that at times, we nurses have

to be that amily member, that close riend, or someone who has none. These

kinds o experiences prove to me that I a m in the right proession.”

Sharon will soon be attending Pace University to study to become a nurse

practitioner and hopes to continue expanding her skills and scope o authority

or care and treatment. She lives in Washington Heights with her husband, Tani

Cohn ’11YC, who works in the Oce o Student Lie on YU’s Wil Campus.

THE PHYSICAL THERAPIST:

 ADI NA SAMTER LE IFE R ’03S

Adina Samter Leier ’03S never planned

on a science-oriented career, but she said

that’s part o the beauty o college—

exploring one’s options.

“I originally entered Stern thinking I

would pursue either teachi ng or law,” said

Leier, who majored in psychology and

minored in biology. “But I was enjoying 

my biology courses so much and wanted

to explore health-related proessions. I

became interested in physical therapy, as

a cousin o mine was pursuing a degree in

that eld, and I decided I would intern at

physical therapy acilities to see i it was a good t.”

Ater intern ships at Lenox Hill Hospital’s rehabilitation department in New

 York City and Olrin and Cohen, an outpatient sports therapy private practice on

Long Island, Leier “was hooked.”

Ater graduating rom Stern, Leier attended Touro College’s Physical Ther-

apy Program, where she earned a doctorate in physical therapy. She began her

career as an orthopedic physical therapist, mainly treating patients with sports

injuries and those who were post-surgery rom operations on their shoulders,backs, hips and knees.

“As I was looking or continuing education courses, I saw advertisements or

courses in pelvic physical therapy,” said Leier. “I had never heard o it beore. I

researched this therapeutic specialt y and soon began taking courses through the

Herman and Wallace Institute o Pelvic Rehabilitation. While it’s generally

called ‘women’s health’ physical therapy, I actually treat both men and women

who are experiencing any dysunction o their pelvic foor muscles.”

Pelvic physical therapy is a airly new technique that treats the muscles o 

the pelvic foor, which are responsible or bladder and bowel control and sexual

unction. When these muscles become weakened or too tight, people experience

pelvic pain or dysunction. “Many patients who suer rom symptoms o pain ul

intercourse, or pelvic, urinary or bowel pain, oten have dysunctional pelvic

foor muscles,” Leier explained. “Pelvic foor physical therapy, one aspect o a

multidisciplinary approach to these problems, incorporates a hands-on tech-

nique to relax pelvic foor muscle trigger points, release abnormal muscle spasms

and provide deep-tissue massage o these muscle groups. Bioeedback and elec-

trical stimulation is oten used to acilitate recovery and provide proper muscle

re-education to relieve pelvic pain and return normal urinary unction.

“I know I’ve chosen the right career path anytime a patient with a bladder

disorder tells me that she is now able to sleep through the night without waking 

up numerous times to use the bathroom or that she is not earul o going out in

public and having an accident,” said Leier. “I’m also proud that I help couples

have stronger, healthier marriages because I’ve helped treat sexual dysunction

relating to pelvic issues. I enjoy meeting all the dierent people who come or

treatment, and I work hard to tailor each person’s treatment accordingly.”

The most important trait s or a physical therapist are patience and empathy,

according to Leier. “I see so many people who are in a lot o pain and have lost

normal unctional mobility and they just want to get better. When ull recovery

comes and you can see a patient who was unable to perorm certain activities

nally be able to do so, there is nothing more rewarding.”

Ater working at a private orthopedic practice or the last ve years in West-

chester, Leier recently began working as the program coordinator or the

Healthy Pelvis Center at Norwalk Community Hospital in Connecticut. Along with the chairman o the Department o Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dr. Yoni

Barnhard, Leier will be opening a Women’s Health Center dedicated to the

treatment o all pelvic foor muscle disorders and dysunction. She currently

lives in Riverdale with her husband, Ari ’00YUHS, ’05YC, ’09E, and their sons,

Jonah, Gavi and Josh. n

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Rachelle (Blumeneld) ’84YUHS, ’87Sand Steven Margulies announce the birtho their grandson, Avram “Avi” NetanelPasternak, born to Rebecca and YossiPasternak. Mazel tov to great-grandmotherLois Blumeneld, who recently married Dr.Norman Sohn.

Dr. Esther ’86S, ’95F and Rabbi Meir

Orlian ’83YUHS, ’87YC, ’90R, ’93BR arepleased to announce the birth o theirgranddaughter, Tehilla Leah, born to Sarahand Avrahami Rosenberg. Mazal tov togreat-grandparents Rabbi Dr. J. Mitchell

Orlian ’51YUHS, ’55YC, ’ 57F, ’73BR andEthel Orlian ’57 YUHSG, ’61S.

Ariela and Dr. Je Port ’83YC announcethe marriage o their daughter, Aviva Port,to Ari Lurie. Mazel tov to grandparents,

Marlene and Dr. Yale Port ’53YC, ’56R,’59F.

Alisa and Rabbi Allen Schwartz ’85YC,’86R, ’87BR announce the birth o theirgranddaughter, born to Chani ’02YUHSand Rabbi Joel Bloom ’05YC, ’09A, ’10R.

Deena and Rabbi Morey Schwartz ’85YC,’90R, ’91BR announce the birth o theirgranddaughte r, Yuval Leah, born to Yaeland Natali Schwartz. Yuval Leah is the frstgreat-granddaughter o Esther ’56YUHS,’60S and Rabbi Ephraim Zimand ’54YUHS, ’58YC, ’61R.

Beverly and Rabbi Aharon Simkin ’85Rannounce the marriage o their daughter,Devorah, to Pini, son o Batya (Shulman) ’80TI and Rabbi David Berlinger.

Bassie and Rabbi Michael Taubes ’80YC,’83F, ’83R announce the marriage o theirson, Yaakov ’11YC, to Racheli Ratner ’12S,a Presidential Fellow at YU’s Institute orUniversity-School Partnership. Mazel tov toRacheli’s parents, Adeena ’73S, ’75BR andRabbi Avrohom Ratner. Rabbi Taubes is therosh yeshiva o Yeshiva University High

School or Boys.

Devorah Altman and Rabbi Brian Thau

’86YC, ’90R, ’98A, celebrated theirdaughter, Racheli ’12YUHS, who wasawarded the Phyllis Barnett Chessed Awardor 2012. Racheli is part o the S. Dan ielAbraham Israel Program at Tieret this yearand plans to attend Stern College in all o2013.

Ora and Rabbi Stuart Verstandig ’80YC,’82F, ’84R celebrated the bar mitzvah otheir son, Pinchus Moshe.

1990s 

Rabbi Reuven

Boshnack ’99YC, ’99A,’04R, ’08A published

 Avodas Yehuda:

Refections on the

Maharal’s Netzach Yisrael 

(2012, Lulu Publishing).

Rachel (Lewkowitz) Ciment ’99SB is thedirector o student lie at the Israel Henr yBeren campus.

Shira ’97YUHS, ’01S and Rabbi Shlomo

Einhorn ’01YC, ’04R, ’09A were honored byWest Side Institutional Synagogue at theannual dinner.

Chavi (Sweidler) ’97YUHS, ’01S andDaniel Eisenberg ’95YUHS announce thebirth o their third son, Moshe Yehuda.Mazel tov to grandparents, Gail ’74S andNorman Eisenberg ’68YUHS, and Sonjaand Simon Swidler ’63YUHS.

Rabbi Jonah Feldman

’97YUHS, ’03YC, ’09R isan attending physician inWinthrop Hospital’sDepartment o Medicineand associate programdirector or the hospital’s

Internal Medicine Residency Program.

Seth Galena ’99YC helped put together“Tacos or Noah” (www.tacosornaoh) orSandy Hook victim Noah Pozner, whoseavorite ood was tacos.

Yocheved ’98W and Rabbi Erem

Goldberg ’97YC, ’01R announce the birtho their son, Shmuel Yisroel NossonGoldberg, who ollows six daughters.

Rabbi Barry Goldfscher ’96YC, ’01R,director o The Jerusalem Journey, Rabbi

Aryeh Lightstone ’05R, ’06SB, regionaldirector o New York NCSY (NationalConerence o Synagogue Youth), andRabbi Dovid Twersky ’70YC, ’73R, ormerNCSY national vice president, will beinducted into the NCSY Ben Zakkai HonorSociety at the annual Ben Zakkai Dinner.

Tova and Rabbi Fred Hyman ’99Rcelebrated the b’not mitzvah o their twindaughters, Raphaela and Rebecca.

Dr. Shara and Rabbi David Israel ’96Rcelebrated the bar mitzvah o their son, Ari.

Rabbi Barry Kislowicz,

EdD ’99YC, ’04Rreceived the CovenantFoundation’sPomegranate Prize orexceptional, emergingproessionals in Jewish

education settings. Only fve awards weregiven; Rabbi Kislowicz is the only Jewishday school educator selected.

YU Director oEvents Aliza

(Berenholz)

’92YUHS, ’96S andYehuda Leon Peled

announce the birtho their son, ShalomMoshe, on August

15. Mazel tov to grandparents Manya andRabbi Heshy Berenholz ’60YUHS andElana and Jack Peled.

Ayala ’96YUHS and Rabbi Dani Rocko ’01YC, ’03R, ’04A, ’08BR announce thebirth o their daughter, Ora Hila.

Deborah ’97S and Rabbi Ari Rocko ’99SB, v01R celebrated the bat mizvah oher daughter, Shoshana.

Dr. Chaya and Rabbi Elimelech Rosenthal

’98YUHS, ’02YC, ’09R announce the birtho their son, Yechezkel David. Maze l tov togreat grandparents Claire and Rabbi

Joshua Hertzberg’51YC, ’55R .

Rabbi Eliezer Schnall, PhD ’95YUHS,’00YC, ’02F, ’03R, ’06F, proessor opsychology at Yeshiva College, was ascholar-in-residence at Mt. Sinai JewishCenter, New York; Young Israel oSouthfeld, Michigan; Congregation Sons oIsrael o Allentown, PA; and CongregationAdath Israel o Elizabeth, NJ. Rabbi Schnallauthored “Satisaction and Stressors in aReligious Minority: A National Study oOrthodox Jewish Marriage,” whichappeared in the January 2013 issue o theJournal o Multicultural Counseling and 

Development .

 P’nina Seplowitz ’96YUHS, ’00SBpublished her frstchildren’s book,Once Upon a

Vegetable (TraordPublishing, 2012)about a wealthy manrom a small village

who yearns to fnd a new ood thatsatiates and excites him. An entertain-ing east or the visual senses and adiscovery o the many wonders ocreation—learn more at www.pninaseplowitz.com.

Julie (Ackerman) Sherry ’93YUHS, ’96Sis a New York licensed physical therapistspecializing in custom-tailored exercise

programs that rebalance the body, as wellas manual physical therapy skills that easethe body and integrate all systems toachieve optimal unction. Sherry, in practiceor 13 years, integrates mind and bodytechniques with customized therapeuticexercises or each individual patient. Sherryis a certifed yoga instructor and strengthtrainer.

Bracha and David Silverberg ’94YC, ’98Rannounce the birth o their son, YonatanMoshe. Mazel tov to grandparents Tammy ’64YUHS and Benjamin Silverberg ’61YC,’66BR.

Ilana (Fodiman) and Rabbi Yair Silverman

’98YC, ’00BR, ’02R announce the birth otheir son, Amitai Shalev. Mazel tov to

grandparents Mel and Dagmar Fodiman ’92C, and Anita Hirsch Silverman.

Rena ’97S, ’97A and Rabbi Reuven

Spolter ’94YC, ’97A, ’97R, celebrated thebar mitzvah o their son, Bezalel.

Danya ’99S and Rabbi Aryeh Stechler

’00YC, ’03R announce the birth o their son,Yaakov Oded.

Dr. Rachel Teitelbaum’s ’98E company, HervanaLTD (www.hervana-bio.com), received the Round4 Grand ChallengeExploration Grant romthe Bill and Melinda

Gates Foundation. The company was alsochosen as the runner-up or the best

startup company in an annual startupcompetition sponsored by the Israel LieScience Industry, announced at the annualBiomed competit ion in June 2012.

Miriam ’90S andRabbi Perry

Tirschwell ’85YC,’89R announce themarriage o theirdaughter, Meira, toGershon Albert ’12YC.

Esther and Rabbi Etan Tokayer ’95YC,’95BR, ’95R announce the birth o their son,Yedidyah Mordechai.

Ari Zoldan ’99SB

appeared on FoxBusiness’ “Moneywith MelissaFrancis” on July26 to discuss theFacebookearnings report.

Zoldan is the CEO o Quantum NetworksLLC and senior Washington correspondentor Talk Radio News Service. Zoldan ispress credentialed at the United Nationsand on Capitol Hill.

Rabbi Aaron Levitt ’99YC, ’05R becameprincipal o Judaic studies at Robert M.Beren Academy in Houston, TX.

2000s 

Aliza ’05S and Rabbi Dovid Asher ’06YC,’09R announce the birth o their son,Yaakov.

Yardena ’08S and Ariel Bannett ’09YCannounce the birth o their daughter, AhuvaNeima.

Pnina Baim ’09A published her book,Choices (CreateSpace IndependentPublishing Platorm, 2012).

Yiska (Jessica Levine) ’04S and MoshehBen Avraham announce the birth o theirdaughter, Pnina Yocheved.

Anna ’03S and Rabbi Avi Billet ’96YUHS,’01YC, ’06A, ’08R announce the birth otheir daughter, Temimah Pearl.

Shonnie ’05S and Rabbi Jonathan

Chambre ’04YC, ’07R announce the birtho their daughter, Yael Elisheva. Mazel tov tograndparents Dr. Susan and RobertChambre, and Alisa and Rabbi Allen

Schwartz ’85YC, ’86R, ’97BR.

Dr. Susan Ciardiello

’07W published hersecond book, ACTivities

or Group Work with

 Adolescents (MacroProducts, 2012). Her frstbook was ACTivities or 

Group Work with School-Age Children 

(Marco Products, 2003).

Rabbi Jeremy Donath ’08YC , ’11A, ’11Rmarried Shira Kandel ’13S.

Jody ’03S and Rabbi Amichai Erdarb ’94YUHS, ’99YC, ’02R announce the birtho their son, Yehuda Menachem.

Meira ’09A and Ari Federgrun ’10YCannounce the birth o their son. Mazel tov tograndparents Edna ’64YUHS and ErnstBechhoer.

 

Robin Mitchell ’02S andJerey Feit announce thebirth o their son, Marc(Moshe).

Aliza and Rabbi

Yaacov Feit ’02YC,’05R, ’05Aannounce the birtho their son.

Azadeh and Rabbi Ezra

Frazer ’01YC, ’04A, ’05R,’05BR announce the birtho their daughter, TamarAvigayil.

Sara ’09S, ’12BR and Rabbi Adam

Frieberg ’09SB, ’12A announce the birth otheir daughter, Rina Menucha.

Abby (Calm) ’03S and Rabbi Joe Hirsch ’04YC, ’09R, ’09A announce the birth otheir son, Elisha.

Rebecca ’05SB and Rabbi Avi Hochman ’05SB, ’07A, ’08R announce the birth otheir daughter, Shulamis Basya (Shulie).

Dr. Arielle (Glueck)

’03S, ’08E andJoshua Hay ’03YCannounce the birtho their son, SamuelIsrael.

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Stern alumnae and riends enjoyed the delectable ood at PrimeKO Japanese Steakhouse

while learning the tricks o the trade rom Che David Kolotkin. The sold-out crowd raised 

more than $40,000 or Stern scholarships.

YESHIVA COLLEGE DRAMATICS SOCIETY CELEBRATES 100TH PRODUCTION (DECEMBER 2, 2012)

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YOUNG ALUMNI BEER TASTING AT LOFT ON 5TH (NOVEMBER 29, 2012)

 More than 60 young alumni and riends sampled great seasonal beers while learning about

the brews by experts rom Tapped Crat Beers. The beers were paired with hors d’oeuvres

which complimented each o the beers perectly.

m  Event Co-chairs Pam Hirt ’90S (center) and Rena Kwestel ’92S (right) with Mindy Speiser

 Davidof ’83YUHS, ’87S

m  Rina Emerson ’00S, Chani Klein, Bonnie Schertz ’82S, Esther Weinstein,

 Bernice Josze 

m  Jamie Leier, Malki Rosen ’85S, Cindy Pinter ’92S,

 Irit Kerstein ’94S and Suzy Schwartzstein

m  Dara Kushner-Orbach ’01S

and Stern Board member

Suzanne Berger

m  Penny ’08SB and Reuben

 Pazornick ’05SB

m  Lori (Miodownik) ’03SB and Shai Barnea ’03YC, and Ellie (Nyer) ’03SB and 

 Elly Goldenberg ’03SB

m  Alumni sampling beers

q  Eric Weiss ’09SB, Hillie Sturm ’11SB,

and Or Pikary ’11SB

m  Daniel Goldmintz ’09SB,

 Ezra Blumenthal ’07YC,

and Aliza Abrams ’05S

o  Jamie Small ’08SB and 

 Josh Sladowsky ’09SB

q Sisters Alisa Blumeneld Wietschner,

 Deena Blumeneld Kaszovitz ’92S,Tammi Blumeneld Schachter ’96YUHS,

’00S, and Rachelle Blumeneld Margulies

’84YUHS, ’87S

m  Michael Wildes ’89C, YC

 Board Member Leon Wildes

’54YC and John Krug ’74YC

m  Members o the cast o “Twelve Angry Men” 

o  Rem and YCDS alumnus Samuel Davidovics

’69YC

m Committee Head 

Gary Berger ’88YC

o  Jay Blazer ’53BB,

 John Krug ’74YC

m Stern Board Chair Shira

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CLASSNOTES

 

Sivan Kerem

’09S marriedSamuel Krug ’08YC inTeaneck, NJ.

Erik Kessler ’04W is director oadmissions, communications, and humanresources at the Moriah School inEnglewood, NJ, where he mentorsstudent interns rom the WurzweilerSchool o Social Work.

Chaya Sima ’06S, ’08BR and Rabbi

Akiva Koenigsberg ’98YUHS, ’04YC,’08R, ’10BR announce the birth o their

daughter, Leah.

Elana (Naider) ’01S and Rabbi Yonatan

Kohn ’07R announce the birth o theirdaughter, Aderet Tehilah.

Daniel S. Kokhba ’03C has madepartner at Kantor, Davido, Wole,Mandelker, Twomey, & Gallanty, P.C.

Rachel ’05SBand Rabbi Daniel

Kraus ’07SBhave beenappointeddirectors ocommunity

education at Congregation KehilathJeshurun.

First LieutenantMichael Levin

’05YC marriedSamanthaMoskowitz inCedarhurst, NY.Mazel tov toparents Shira andYoel Moskowitz ’85YC and Dianeand Jerey Levin.

Lavie Margolin ’02SB published hisbook, I Know Someone. What Now?  (CreateSpace Independent PublishingPlatorm, 2012).

Dovi Meles ’09YC was selected to theU.S. Army’s Public Aairs Fellowship

Program. Meles will start his training inPhiladelphia with the Army Corp oEngineers, then move to Fort Meade inMaryland to attend the DeenseInormation School, ultimately ending upat the Pentagon in Washington D.C.

Jon Minkove ’02YC was profled by theBaltimore Jewish Times (July 27, 2012)or ounding the Tour de CourtCompetition in Baltimore. Modeled aterthe World Cup, the basketball competi-tion is in its 18th year and raises moneyor leukemia and lymphoma.

Jenny ’03S and Rabbi David Nachbar ’02YC, ’05R, ’11BR announce the b irth otheir son, Chananya Baruch.

Rabbi Eli Ozarowski’01YC, ’04R, ’05Apublished the article, “Scriptural

Inscriptions on Jewelry,” in the all 2012Journal o Halacha and Contemporary 

Society .

Aviva ’08S and Rabbi Uriel Rabinovitz ’05YC, ’10R announce the birth o theirdaughter, Tzipora Chaya Rachel.

Avital and Yaakov Rosenberg ’09YCannounce the birth o their daughter.Mazel tov to grandparents, Jackie andAlan Kelin, and Charlene and Rabbi

Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg ’69YC, ’74R,’74F, ’92A .

MichelleRosengarten

Kramer ’07Cmarried GaryKramer in BalHarbour, FL.

Upon graduating rom the MedicalSchool or International Health(MSIH) o Ben-Gurion University othe Negev, Ayol Samuels ’08YCreceived the Gold Humanism Award,an award given to graduating medicalstudents or commitment to service,outstanding compassion in thedelivery o care, respect or patients,and demonstrated clinicalexcellence.

Aliza ’04SB and Rabbi Yechiel Shaer 

’07YC, ’11A, ’11R announce the bir th otheir son, Bentzion Meir Yitzchak.

Immanuel Shalev ’08YC marriedDavina Wadler.

Ayelet and Rabbi Michael Shore ’03SB,’07R announce the birth o theirdaughter, Neely.

Rabbi Gidon

Shoshan ’02R,’09A receivedHarvardUniversity’sLeadership inEducation Awardrom the GraduateSchool o

Education,awarded to only13 o several hundred applicants romaround the world.

Joey Small ’05YC is director oinstitutional advancement at YULA HighSchool in Los Angeles, CA.

Mirel ’04S and Rabbi Moshe Stavsky’99YUHS, ’04YC, ’07R, ’09BR announcethe birth o their son, Yaakov Mordechai.

Talya and David Stein ’08YC announcethe birth o their son, Ilan Amichai.

Rabbi Rami

Strosberg ’03YC,’07R, ’09A is now thehead o school o the

newly ormedWestchester TorahAcademy.

Sarala and Daniel Turkel ’06YUHS,’12YC announce the bir th o their son,Simcha Mayer.

Dave Weinberg ’05YCwas highlighted by the 

Washington Post (Nov.20) or his HurricaneSandy relie eortsincluding establishingthe Web site,gitcardrelie.org.

Tamar ’09S and Dov Weinberger ’03YUHS, ’08YC announce the birth o

their son.

Rebecca ’02S and Rabbi Yose

Weinstock ’97YUHS , ’01YC, ’04W, ’05Rannounce the birth o their son, EitanChaim.

Yaf (Spodek) ’08S and Rabbi Matan

Wexler ’05SB, ’09A, ’09R announce thebirth o their son, Shlomo Zalman. Mazeltov to grandparents Paula ’72YUHS andRabbi Ira Spodek ’71YC, ’74BR, ’74R.

Sara and Rabbi Netanel Wiederblank 

’03YC, ’05R, ’10BR announce the birtho their son, Yose Mordechai.

Rabbi ShmulyYanklowitz ’09BR wasinterviewed by NBC’sChannel 4 ActionNews about YomKippur observance.

Ilana Schechtman-Yehaskel andJoshua Yehaskel

’06YC announcethe birth o theirdaughter, Alyssa.

Chani ’08S and Menachem Yondor

’12YC announce the bir th o their son.Chani is a student at Einstein College oMedicine.

Sharon ’01SB, ’08W and Rabbi Elie

Zwickler ’93YUHS, ’88YC, ’00R, ’04A,’09W celebrated the bar mitzvah o theirson, Yitzy.

2010s 

Lauren (Abramowitz) ’10S and Yonah

Bardos ’08YC, ’12E ’13R, ’13E announcethe birth o their son, Gavriel Noam.

Shoshana Blackstein ’10S, ’12Amarried Rabbi Avraham Engelson ’07SB, ’12R. Mazel tov to Brenda andRabbi Darren Scott Blackstein ’79YUHS, ’83YC, ’86R.

 

Natan

Brownstein ’12YC marri edJessie Busch.

Melissa ’10S and Rabbi Zev Ele

’09YC, ’11R announce the bir th o theirdaughter, Meital Shoshana. Zevpublished an honorary Kuntres Iggerot 

Halevi to mark the occasion.

Miriam and Yair Frankel ’10YCannounce the birth o their son,Ephraim Ever.

 

Benjamin

Glueck ’10YCmarriedAliza Lipschitz.

Jesse Glueck  ’11YC, marriedSara Feigenaum.Jesse is a studentat EinsteinCollege oMedicine.

Sima Horowitz ’11S, daughter oJanice ’81S andRabbi JonathanHorowitz, marriedZachary

Horowitz ’07YUHS, ’12YC,

son o Debbie ’72YUHS, ’76S and Marc Horowitz ’72YUHS, ’76YC and grandson oRabbi Dr. Edmund Neiss  z”l ’45YC,’48R, ’67BR.

Shalom Isaacson ’10YC teaches yogaclasses around the Houston area to Jewso all ages, backgrounds, and abilities.

Leora (Stroh) ’12S and Alan Katz ’12YCwere married on September 10 andmade aliyah three days later. They planto live in Haia.

 

Suri ’11S and Jeremy

Katz ’08YC announcethe birth o their

daughter, Ayelet Faiga.

The June 26 Delta Democrat Times oGreenville, MS, profled the photographyo Jakob N. Layman ’10YC. Layman andellow photographer Phyllis B. Dooneyare documenting the ways high schoolbands teach discipline and responsibilityto students in the South. More inorma-tion on the project can be ound at www.themightymuddy.com.

Dov Lerner ’11YC rom London marr iedMiriam Weiss ’12S rom Passaic, NJ.

Daniella (Ginsburg) ’10S and Sam

Weprin ’10YC announce the bir th o theirdaughter, Liana Meira.

 

Aliza (Kranzler) ’11Sand Stephen Zeren ’11YC announce thebirth o their son, EvanZackary.

In Memoriam 

Rabbi Dr. Zevulun

Lieberman ’51YC,’54R, ’57YC, ’59F

Rabbi Dr. Jay Braverman ’54YUHS,’58YC, ’61R, ’70BR

Dr. Beatrice Carson ’82FAzriel Cohen ’92YCDr. Ephraim Frankel ’46YUHS, ’50YCDr. Mordecai Gabriel ’34YUHS, ’38YCAlter Goldstein ’60YUHSRabbi Abraham I. Halbfnger ’52IB, ’58RRabbi I. Fred Hollander ’46RRabbi Dr. Edmund Neiss ’45YC, ’48R,

’67BRRabbi Bernard Lipschitz ’30RRabbi Morris B. Margolies ’43R 

Rabbi Stanley Metzger ’47YC, ’49RDr. Sylvia Robb ’60FRabbi Morris L. Rubinstein ’51YUHS,

’55YCRabbi Louis Tuchman ’40YUHS, ’44YC,

’47RIrwin “Yechiel Yitzchak” Wenger

’51YC

Legend for school abbreviations:

A: Azrieli Graduate School o Jewish Education

and Administration • BR: Bernard Revel Graduate

School • BS : Beler Graduate School o Science

• BZ: Philip and Sarah Belz School o Jewish

Music • C: Cardozo School o Law • E: Albert

Einstein College o Medicine • F: Ferkau

Graduate School o Psychology • R: Rabbi Isaac

Elchanan Theological Seminary • S: Stern College

or Women • SB: Sy Syms School o Business • TI:

Teacher’s Institute • W: Wurzweiler School o

Social Work • YC: Yeshiva College YUHS :

Yeshiva University High Schools

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How to Lead in the Nonprot World

Always take the blame,

but be sure to hand out

credit. Answer all your

mail. Have a lot o ideas, but re-

member, not all o them will be

great ones.

These were just a ew

helpul pointers guest speaker

Stephen Trachtenberg, ormer

president o George Washing-

ton University, oered Yeshiva

University students during 

class on a chilly Wednesday

night in December. Trachten-

berg noted that he usually gives

that advice to newly appointed

university presidents—not un-dergraduate students, per se.

However, in a course designed

to place students squarely in the

shoes o nonprot greats, his

remarks provided insight into

a question the group had been

considering throughout the se-

mester: What does it mean to be

a leader in the nonprot world?

Taught by President Richard M. Joel, Leadership

in the Nonprot World delves into that question rom a

series o angles, exploring issues o management, team

building and vision. It includes everything rom over-

arching themes, such as how to navigate conicting 

values, to the daily nitty-gritty, such as building proes-

sional or board relationships.“As University president, I talk a lot about how im-

portant it is to know that as Torah-inormed Jews, our

students have a responsibility to matter,” said President

Joel. “In a class like this, the practical side o what it

means to matter is very important.”

To that end, case study and text-based discussions

are oten augmented with scenarios drawn rom Presi-

dent Joel’s real-lie experience as ormer president and

international director o Hillel, the Foundation or Jew-

ish Campus Lie, and his time at YU’s helm. Guest speak-

ers such as Trachtenberg; Dr. Henry Kressel, managing 

director o Warburg Pincus LLC and chairman o YU’s

Board o Trustees; Rabbi Menachem Genack, CEO o 

the Orthodox Union Kosher Division and a RIETS Rosh

 Yeshiva; and Dr. Phillip Ozuah, executive vice president

and chie operating ofcer o Monteore Hospital, bring 

their own unique perspectives to the conversation, pro-

viding students with a multidimensional view o leader-

ship in a range o industries.

“I think the process o education is only enhanced

when students are exposed to people o accomplish-

ments who can share their experience,” said President

Joel. “There’s something to seeing how dierent people

who occupy positions o leadership manage its commonchallenges.”

But the conversation goes both ways. Ater Presi-

dent Joel delivered his rst State o the University ad-

dress in September, students in his course shared their

reactions to it and analyzed its content as a work o lead-

ership. That direct connection is something President

Joel values. “I love teaching and have wanted to teach

rom the beginning, but the scheduling burden o the

presidency made it unair to impose that uncerta inty on

a class,” he explained. “This year, I wanted to get back to

having that relationship with students. You can better

identiy with the university you lead i you spend some

time in the classroom.”

“This course has been a revelation,” said Joshua

Fink, a Yeshiva College senior majoring in economics

who has been interested in the nonprot world or sev-

eral years. Studying the topic in-depth with President

Joel has helped demystiy t hat world and make it acces-

sible to him. “President Joel engages us in discussion

about relevant problems and practical situations that

come up in nonprots and even the business world at

large,” said Fink. “I’m learning how important commu-

nication and having a dedicated and trustworthy team

around you is.”Sason Gabay, a senior majoring in accounting at Sy

Syms School o Business, has ound his role as a teach-

ing assistant in the course especially interesting. “My

avorite part has been the opportunity to sit down with

the president ater class and really see dierent situ-

ations through his eyes,” he said. “I’m learning that it

takes a lot o commitment and passion to be t he head o a

nonprot. I you don’t have that set o values, you might

make a great Fortune 500 CEO, but you’ll probably ail

leading a nonprot organization.”

For President Joel, that takeaway is key. “I hope my

students walk away with the sense that leadership is

not about power or glory, but taking responsibility,” he

said, adding, “I don’t take lightly the privilege o being 

in a university classroom. The interchange between us,

that process o enlightening and being enlightened, is

everything.” n

Sy Syms Course Taught by President Richard M. Joel Oers Students Firsthand Leadership Lessons

 President Joel and renowned guest speakers, including ormer George Washington University President Stephen Trachtenberg, explore what it means to be a

leader in the nonproft world.

 Dozens o students and aculty at YU High School or Boys / Marsha Stern Talmudical

 Academy assisted in cleanup eorts in various communities devastated by the storm.

Samuel H. Wang YU High School or Girls students assisted in disaster relie throughout

 New York City, including eeding the hungry at a Masbia ood kitchen in Brooklyn.

Students Pitch in Post-Sandy

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Ferkau Awarded Aordable Care Act Grant

Cardozo to Oversee Translation o Key Opinions o Israel’sSupreme Court

Dr. Lata K. McGinn, associate pro-

essor and director o the clinical

psychology program at Yeshiva

University’s Ferkau Graduate School o 

Psychology, has received a ederal grant

o more than $470,000 to provide train-

ing or the continuous treatment o the

severely and persistently mentally ill.

Only 11 graduate schools rom across

the country received the grant, awarded

by Health and Human Services Secretary

Kathleen Sebelius through the Mental

and Behavioral Health Education and

Training Grant Program, which was au-

thorized as a part o the Aordable Care

Act. Ferkau received the second largest

grant and is the only recipient that will

create an afliated internship program.

“There are hundreds o clinical pro-

grams in the country, so the act that Fer-

kau is among the ew schools to secure

this grant speaks highly o the quality o 

training here,” said McGinn. “One o thethings that makes us unique is that we

oer equal training in assessment, treat-

ment and research, which leads to stu-

dents being comprehensively trained.”

McGinn added that Ferkau “exposes

students to dierent modalities o psy-

chotherapy, which is rare. As a result, our

students are better positioned or diverse

 job opportunities because there is no gap

or hole in their training.”

Ferkau will use the grant to collabo-

rate with the Bronx Psychiatric Center

(BPC) in creating an innovative program

to teach graduate students how to assess

and work with patients with severe and

persistent mental illness in underserved

areas.

The program will be used as the

oundation to build a training curriculum

that will be disseminated to other gradu-

ate clinical and internship programs. The

grant will also be used to set up an afli-

ated internship program at BPC and will

allow Ferkau to augment its current cur-

riculum by hiring and inviting experts

who specialize in treating the severelyand persistently mentally ill.

“I am pleased and proud that the

clinical program has been awarded this

highly competitive grant, which will be

used to support three years o predoctoral

training,” said Dr. Lawrence Siegel, dean

o Ferkau.

“Through this collaborative pro-

gram, we will increase the number o 

students interested in working with this

population and will ensure that they are

ully competent to provide essential ser-

vices to this group,” said McGinn. “The

ultimate goal, however, is to create some-

thing that we can export to other gradu-

ate programs, so they can use this training 

module to develop similar programs.”

McGinn is the principal investigator

on this grant. Ferkau’s assistant director,

Dr. Jamie Schump, is the project man-

ager, and Dr. James Beacher is the direc-

tor o internship training at BPC.

“Our student interns will unction

as primary therapists or patients with

severe and persistent mental illness dur-

ing their internship training,” explainedSchump. “They will provide individual

therapy as well as group psychotherapy

on specialized units. They will conduct

intakes, psychological testing as well as

orensic evaluations, and will have the op-

portunity to rotate through other select

units at BPC.” n

Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N.

Cardozo School o Law is taking 

over responsibility or translating 

signicant cases o the Supreme Court o 

Israel into English.

In recognition o Cardozo’s pro-

grams in international constitutional

law and in Jewish legal studies, the

Friends o the Library o the Supreme

Court o Israel is transerring authority

and unding or t he project to the school.

The opinions o the Israeli Supreme

Court are o signicant inuence to the

development o law in other countries.

United States Supreme Court Justice

Stephen Breyer has said, “The Supreme

Court o Israel is one o the world’s great

legal institutions. Its work is o increasing 

value to constitutional scholars through-

out the world.”

The Friends o the Library o the

Supreme Court o Israel was ormed

in the 1990s as a nonprot corporation

based in the United States, whose mis-

sion is to work closely with Israel’s Su-

preme Court to make its opinions readily

available in English. Legal

translators in Israel work

on translations that are

made available online and

in published volumes by

the organization.

In partnership with

the Supreme Court o Is-

rael, the Cardozo project

will continue to trans-

late signicant opinions

and make them available

on the Supreme Court’s

website, Cardozo’s web-

site and through other

electronic legal sources.

The translations will continue to be pub-

lished in volumes made available in the

United States and throughout the world.

United States Judge Jon O. Newman

o the United States Court o Appeals or

the Second Circuit chairs the Friends

o the Supreme Court o Israel and met

with Cardozo Law Dean Matthew Diller

and Vice Dean Edward Stein in New

 York City in October 2012 to sign the

agreement. Justice Asher Dan Grunis,

president o the Supreme Court o Israel,

attended the signing, as did the previous

president o the Supreme Court o Is-

rael, Dorit Beinisch, and ormer Deputy

President o the Supreme Court o Israel

Eliezer Rivlin, who is a visiti ng proessor

at Cardozo.

“Cardozo is honored to take over

the role o directing this important proj-

ect,” said Diller. “The project is a natural

t or us and will be directed by the Flo-

ersheimer Center or Constitutional De-

mocracy as well as t he Center or Jewish

Law and Contemporary Civilization.”

“By placing this important work

at Cardozo, we are condent it will re-

ceive the attention it deserves interna-

tionally,” said Newman. “Our mission

to make these cases available through-

out the international legal world is now

complete.”

The Friends o the Library o the Su-

preme Court o Israel will dissolve ater

a short transition period.

Those involved with overseeing the

project at Cardozo include Proessor Su-

zanne Last Stone, director o the Center

or Jewish Law and Contemporary Civi-

lization, and Proessor Michael Herz,

co-director o the Floersheimer Center

or Constitutional Democracy. n

 Dr. Lata K. McGinn

Justice Sonia Sotomayor Oers Adviceand Inspiration During Cardozo Visit

In October, students packed Cardozo’s Jacob Burns Moot Court

Room to hear Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor discuss her

background and her job, and oer career advice.

Sotomayor made a point o meeting and speaking with as

many students as possible in a reception ollowing the event. She

 joins a list o Supreme Court justices who have visited Cardozo

in recent years, including Justices Stephen Breyer, Sandra Day

O’Connor and John Paul Stevens.

 From let, Peter Fishbein, Eliezer Rivlin, Matthew Diller, Asher Dan Grunis, Jon Newman and Edward Stein.

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Treating Returning Veterans and Their FamiliesWurzweiler Oers Certifcate

in Social Work Practice Withthe Military

American military engagement in

Aghanistan and Iraq has lasted

more than a decade, and advances

in medical technology and Kevlar armor

have led to unprecedented numbers o 

soldiers surviving battle wounds to re-

turn to civilian lie in the United States.

Many must learn to adapt to a lie with

physical injuries or disabilities, while an

estimated 20 percent o returning ser-

vice members are diagnosed with major

mental health problems. This has cre-

ated an overwhelming strain on Depart-

ment o Deense hospitals and VeteransAdministration acilities, which soldiers

typically turn to or care.

 Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler

School o Social Work hopes to relieve

some o that burden by equipping its

graduates to treat veterans in their agen-

cies as well as in outpatient mental health

settings and private practices, and the

school now oers a new Certicate in So-

cial Work Practice With the Military.

The goal o the certicate program

“is to highlight the specialized knowl-

edge, skills and values associated with

working with soldiers in the military,

returning veterans and their ami-

lies,” said Dr. Carmen Ortiz Hendricks,

Dorothy and David I. Schachne Dean o 

Wurzweiler. “We want to educate and

train social work students who will be

capable o addressing the unique physi-

cal and mental challenges, as well as

transitional needs, o this population.”

Students will take three elective

courses and conduct supervised eld-

work in an agency that serves the mili-

tary, such as a VA hospital, Vet Centeror Family Readiness acility. Courses

such as Social Work Practice With the

Military, Coping With Loss, Trauma

and Interpersonal Violence, and Clini-

cal Practice With the Military Family

are designed to amiliarize students

with prominent issues and approaches to

care, including emphases on topics such

as the culture o the military, the impact

o war on soldiers and their amilies,

post-traumatic stress disorder and cop-

ing with loss o limbs, among others.

“We see numbers and parades, but

most o us have no idea what soldiers or

their loved ones go through,” said Dr.

Joan Beder, proessor o social work at

Wurzweiler who developed the Social

Work Practice With the Military course

and will oversee the certicate program.

“We also have difculty grasping the

ripple eects o someone engaged in war.

At Wurzweiler, we are at the ore ront o 

this eld, training social service workers

who can understand the complete gamut

o experiences that men and women

have in the militar y.”Social Work Practice With the Mili-

tary is one o our certicates oered at

Wurzweiler. Students can also pursue

specialties in Jewish communal service,

gerontology and child welare. n

k To learn more, visit www.yu.edu/wurzweiler

 Dr. Joan Beder will oversee the certifcate

 program.

Mandate to Matter

ç Continued rom Page 1

strengthen YU’s capacity to serve as the

key educational, intellectual and spiritualresource or Jewish communities around

the world.

Inspired by a historic git o $100

million rom Ronald P. Stanton in Novem-

ber 2006, the campaign has already raised

nearly $800 million in pledges and gits.

These commitments enabled the Univer-

sity to sharply increase nancial assis-

tance to deserving students; strengthen

the entire academic enterprise (aculty,

research and programs); and enhance the

quality o student lie, campus inrastruc-

ture and community outreach. These

changes have transormed YU, providing 

an experience that educates, motivates

and ullls.

However, the work isn’t over yet. As

the campaign moves orward, the chal-

lenge is to continue building a rst-rate

product and a world-class education. YU

plans to continue strengthening and en-

riching its undergraduate schools, the

core strategic priority, with a major goal

o raising, beyond the $1 billion, an ad-

ditional $400 million in undergraduate

scholarship unds over the next ve to 10

years.

Three hundred million dollars will

be endowment unds which, when ully

obtained, will provide approximately

$16.5 million in annual support or schol-arships (based on a 5.5% annual en-

dowment spending rate). One hundred

million is estimated to be current use dol-

lars. Thus, the undergraduate scholarship

und will have both an immediate and

long-term impact.

Scholarship assistance is the ore-

most priority, and the University is com-

mitted to ensuring that every qualied

student who desires a YU education be

able to obtain one, regardless o his or

her nancial situation. In the 2012–13

year, YU is al locating $39 million or un-

dergraduate scholarship support, which

will benet more than 1,700 students

(75 percent o undergraduates) and their

amilies. Philanthropy—annual schol-

arship gits and scholarship endow-

ment income—accounts or one-third o 

these unds ($13 million); the remainder

($26 million) comes rom the operating 

budget.

“For Yeshiva to sustain the progress

we have witnessed, even during a pe-

riod o budget constraints, there is noth-

ing more important at this time than to

provide the necessary scholarships to all

deserving students,” said Ira Mitzner,

president o RIDA Development Corp.

and a YU Trustee, who succeeded Lance

Hirt in June 2012 as chair o the Cam-paign or Yeshiva University.

At the Hanukkah Dinner, Mitzner

shared a personal story to drive home

that point. “When my ather and I once

walked the streets o Warsaw together on

a trip to Poland, my ather remembered a

brilliant man na med Moshe Gold. Moshe

would walk the streets o the Warsaw

Ghetto with his six sons and daughters,

and you could literally see the brilliance

and scholarship swimming out o their

collective heads as they discussed all

types o subjects. My ather told me that

i the amily had not been lost to the Ho-

locaust and was alive in the United States

today, they each would have transormed

the world with their sharp minds. One

might have been the chairman o the

Federal Reserve Bank; one would have

been a Supreme Court justice; and one

would have been leading the ght to cu re

cancer.”

He continued, “We have lost that

brilliant amily, but we can still join

together and cultivate the best o our

world by giving our community’s most

brilliant minds the opportunity or a

 Yeshiva University education.”

“While the amount o scholarships

we award is both sizable and commend-

able, it is simply not sustainable withoutadditional philanthropy, let alone enough

to support our growing enrollment, es-

pecially during these tough economic

times,” said Daniel T. Forman, YU’s vice

president or institutional advancement.

“Most o the campaign unds we have

raised so ar are designated or specic

schools or programs, restricted in their

use, and thereore cannot be allocated

or overall operational and budgetary

purposes.”

He added, “No matter what the eco-

nomic trends and conditions may be—

and we know they are challenging—our

people have always had a tradition o 

charitable giving. That is how our great

institutions, like Yeshiva University, are

built and ourish. We are condent that

members o our community will continue

to partner with us by contributing, with

gits o all sizes, to this essential cam-

paign, knowing that they are contributing 

to the uture o the Jewish people and to

the advancement o the world at large.” n

k To make a contribution or to learn more aboutYeshiva University’s capital campaign, visit www.yu.edu/support/campaign-or-yu

Remembering Newtown

On December 20, students and

aculty remembered the victims o

the tragic Sandy Hook Elementary

School massacre with poetry,

music, prayer and a candle lighting

ceremony at a commemorative

gathering on the Wil Campus.

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tor, religious leader, author and

lecturer who has taught at YU

since 1966. A graduate o Ye-

shiva College and YU-afliated

Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theologi-

cal Seminary (RIETS), Blech

studied under Rabbi Joseph B.

Soloveitchik and has written

many books about Judaism and

philosophy. His recent work,  I 

G-d Is Good, Why Is the World 

So Bad?, has been translated

into Portuguese and Indonesian,

where it has had a powerul re-

ception in the wake o the coun-

try’s tsunami. He is a recipient

o the American Educator o the

 Year Award.

Radio host Nachum Segal

’84YC began his broadcasting 

career at YU’s own radio sta-

tion, WYUR, in 1981. He as-

sumed leadership o Jewish

programming at WFMU Radio

in 1983 when he became the

host o “JM in the AM: Jewish

Moments in the Morning,” and

his presentation o music, news

and community events have ac-

companied tens o thousands o 

listeners through their morning 

routine or more than three de-

cades. Segal has used the show,

as well as his recently launched

Nachum Segal Network, to

champion important causes

and highlig ht key conversations

within the Jewish community.

“My experience on campus at

 Yeshiva College helped mold

me and many o my colleagues

in Jewish leadership roles,” he

said. “I have the same hope or

my son, who is a sophomore at

 Yeshiva.”

At only 17, Samuel H. Wang 

 Yeshiva University High School

or Girls (Central) senior Rivka

Abbe recently launched a radio

show on the Nachum Segal Net-

work, “Teen Spirit With Rivka

Abbe,” addressing issues that

concern Jewish teens and em-

powering them to become active

advocates or themselves and or

Israel in and out o their com-

munities. She recently brought

together 250 Jewish students

on YU’s Wil Campus rom high

schools across the New York

region to introduce them to the

mechanics o lawmaking, Israel

advocacy and lobbying. The

next day she led the group to

Washington, D.C., to meet with

members o Congress and the

administration to discuss U.S.

policy concerning Israel.

“I really want to do some-

thing to help the Jewish world,

so whatever I go into—whether

it’s politics, advocacy or medi-

cine—will involve that,” said

Abbe. “There are so many things

that I’ve accomplished at Cen-

tral that I wouldn’t have been

able to accomplish anywhere

else, and I’m so grateul or that.”

At an academic convoca-

tion earlier in the evening, Presi-

dent Joel bestowed honorary

doctorates upon ormer White

House Chie o Sta Jack Lew,

who delivered the keynote ad-

dress; management consulting 

and investment banking ex-

ecutive Stanley Raskas, a 1965

 Yeshiva College graduate and

1969 RIETS graduate; Moises

 Y. Sara, a philanthropist and

accomplished nancier; and

Diane Wassner, a national vice

president and member o the

Executive Council o the Ye-

shiva University Women’s Orga-

nization (YUWO) and ounding 

member o its President’s Soci-

ety or Torah Chessed. n

Grace Meng ’02C is the frst Asian-American to represent New York

in Congress.

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This winter break, 90 Yeshiva Uni-

versity students took part in an

array o hands-on community

building projects organized by YU’s Cen-

ter or the Jewish Future in Israel, the

United States, Nicaragua and Mexico.

The missions diered widely in

ocus, ranging rom service-learning and

experiential education to humanitarian

aid. Building on the success o the Coun-

terpoint Israel summer program, 39 YUstudents ran a series o winter camps or

500 Israeli teens in Jerusalem, Kiryat

Malachi and Dimona that sought to

strengthen their English language skills

and acilitate sel-exploration through

art. In Mexico, 16 students assisted with

arming and harvesting in local private

and public gardens, building pools or

aquaculture development and contribut-

ing to the community’s ecotourism proj-

ect. The group collaborated with a local

nonprot organization that works within

the Mayan community to promote environmental sustainability, ad-

vance the integration o women in the economy and strengthen the

capacity o grassroots groups.

Sixteen students also volunteered in Nicaragua with Servicios

Medicos Comunales, an NGO that promotes

community-based sustainable development in

the southwestern district o San Juan del Sur, by

assisting with the construction o a public li-

brary—a project started by previous CJF winter

mission participants. And 19 students traveled

rom Houston to San Antonio to Dallas on the

CJF’s Jewish Lie Coast to Coast program, meet-

ing with local rabbis, educators and communal

leaders to gain a better understanding o the

unique challenges aced by these diverse Jewishcommunities. n

Students Take Part in Volunteer andService-Learning Missions Across the Globe

 In Mexico, students plant trees alongside a Mayan armer.

Counterpoint participants

ran English language and 

art camps or Israeli youth.