yeshiva university review winter 2003

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Remembering

theRav

TO MAKE YESH IVA UN IVERS ITY THE GREATEST university it can be, we follow asimple but enduring principle: we encourage in our professors, researchers, and stu-dents a desire to wonder, translating that curiosity into intellectual growth, creativity,and accomplishment. Always accompanying that is an essential component: an ethicaloverlay in how we apply knowledge, whether in medicine, law, social work, Jewishlearning, or any of our other disciplines.

Indeed, in these uncertain times, a modern university should encourage a moral cli-mate that elicits respect for the human spirit, for honor, for the pursuit of knowledgeand love of learning, for the human capacity for self-transcendence. It should cultivatea moral code for how a person goes about his or her professional and personal life.

At Yeshiva University, outstanding and revered Talmudic minds have guided andenhanced our institution—intellectual giants who gave meaning and substance to ourvalues and traditions.

Among these giants, none stood taller than “the Rav,” Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik,whose 100th birthday and 10th anniversary of his death we will honor and commemo-rate next April.

The Rav, perhaps more than any other personality, has left his imprint on our uni-versity and has made it the home address of Torah Umadda. A dedicated and at timesintimidating teacher, we remember him here within the pages of YU Review for thegestalt of his personality and for the enduring influence he has had on the thousands ofhis students—and, indeed, on our institution as well.

The Rav’s approach to the synergy of general and Torah knowledge provides anunderlying theme for University programs and disciplines. Yeshiva University can con-ceive of and promote activities as varied as the Holocaust conference on Italian Jewry(page 9), the Fisher Landau Center’s Adult Literacy Program at Albert Einstein Collegeof Medicine for the learning disabled (page 14), and the Jacob Burns Center for Ethicsin the Practice of Law at our Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where better under-standing of how law and society coexist creates an environment for judicious rulings.

In these pages, you will read about human examples of Torah Umadda, showing howwe apply our values in the community at large. Torah Umadda also inspires alumni suchas Sharon Herzfeld (page 17), David Friedman (page 18), and Elie Krakowski (page 19)to rise to the heights of their professions while remaining strongly rooted in their her-itage and tradition.

Also in these pages, students newly enrolled at Yeshiva University reflect on theirlife-changing experiences in Israel last year (page 12). Israel was a key component ofthe Rav’s Weltanschauung, and these students came away strengthened as Jews, asmature young adults, and as future leaders.

The Rav was involved in the secular and intellectual worlds because he believed thatthese, too, are part of what a Torah personality should possess. As an institution, weembody that belief, and act on it in a way that benefits all humanity.

—NORMAN LAMM ’49Y,B ,R

Connecting Body,Soul, and Mind

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LEADERSHIP

3 GLIMPSES OF THE RAV

A master teacher and guide whom the world knew as an intellectual giant, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik reserved a side for those he touched personally.

CHRONICLES

9 YU HOLOCAUST CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS PLIGHT OF ITALIAN JEWRY

Scholars report that deportations, discrimination, and other abuses during Nazi occupation were far worse than once thought.

COMMUNITY

12 STRENGTHENING THE TIES THAT BIND

“When you must fight for what you love, you love it more.”

14 A HELPING HAND FOR THE LEARNING DISABLED

“I felt ashamed and lost, and even began thinking maybe there’s something wrong with me, maybe my teachers were right.”

ALUMNI PROFILES

17 HEALING WITH STYLE AND SUBSTANCE: Sharon Herzfeld YH,’88S

“To help the healing process is inseparable from my identity as a Jew.”

18 HERE COME THE BRIDES: David Friedman ’72Y

On the legendary mean streets of Chicago, near Al Capone’s favorite haunts, David Friedman creates modern-day fairy tales.

19 OUR MAN IN AFGHANISTAN: Elie D. Krakowski ’68Y

“The work I do entails meeting with people in high-risk professions who sometimes end in a violent manner.”

DEPARTMENTS

20 BOOKSHELF

22 ALUMNI NEWS

27 ALUMNI HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

44 CLASSNOTES

52 ENDNOTE: “Flora’s Quilt”

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Healing with Style andSubstanceBY LI NDA K . NAT HAN

earing a chic ’60s Pucci dress, SharonHerzfeld ’88S rarely talks about her fond-

ness for vintage fashion. Instead, the 36-year-old doctor prefers to muse about the human

brain, which she calls “the last great frontier ofthe unknown.” That’s why she chose pediatric neurology asher specialty, she explains from her office at New YorkUniversity Medical Center.

As for medicine in general, Dr. Herzfeld credits SternCollege and “extraordinary” mentors such as Dr. David Shatz,professor of philosophy, and Dr. Charles Raffel, assistant pro-fessor of Jewish philosophy, with preparing her mentally andspiritually for a tough profession. “I was exposed to ideas Iwouldn’t have been exposed to elsewhere,” says Herzfeld, aphilosophy major. Indeed, she says, “having gone to Stern is agift,” a place where “Jewish ethics are guiding principles.”Today that influence guides her work with sick children: “Tohelp the healing process is inseparable from my identity as aJew,” she says.

Pediatric neurology is not considered uplifting; Herzfeldherself defines it as a “humbling” endeavor, especially when aparticular disease is untreatable. But, “That’s when I realizethat the quality of the human interaction is essential.”

Yet, there are victories. One of her favorites involves aseven-year-old boy hospitalized for sudden-onset leg paralysis.A spinal tap, MRI, and other tests yielded normal results, andHerzfeld recounts that the youngster’s examination wasinconsistent with true paralysis. “I kept thinking that some-how he just did not want to move his legs.” After much dis-cussion with the hospital’s staff and the boy’s mother, shedecided to test her intuition. “We told him we were giving himmedicine intravenously that would help him walk again.”

Midway through the “procedure,” the boy screamed, “ButI can’t walk!”

“So let’s dance!” Herzfeld responded, lifting him off thetable. Then both doctor and patient started swirling aroundthe nursing station! The lesson? “Everyone (a child being noexception) needs a back door, a way out of something that’sembarrassing. This story,” Herzfeld says, “was really about a

child desperate for attention and support.”There was no shortage of desperate patients for Herzfeld

during her studies at Tel Aviv University’s Sackler School ofMedicine, from which she graduated in 1995. She trained ineight hospitals throughout Israel, working side by side withIsraeli paratroopers who had become medical residents. Theirpatients were Israeli Arabs, Jews, and difficult cases from allover the globe. “Everyone received the highest standard ofcare—with the greatest compassion,” Herzfeld says, recallingthe image of an elderly Arab woman being tended to with dig-nity and skill by Israeli doctors. “Illness cuts across all cultur-al lines. When people are sick, there are no differences.”

Today her busy private practice includes seeing patients onMondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. Other days, she volun-teers in her community—Manhattan’s Lower East Side—andin her synagogue. “It’s important to incorporate some aspectof hesed [charitable good deeds] into your day,” she says, call-ing her approach to Judaism “humanistic.” It is a perspectiveshe says she honed under the tutelage of her Stern Collegementors, and one she is eager to develop in her own children,three-year-old Moselle and six-month-old Tova.

“When I’m out walking with Moselle, sometimes we’ll seehomeless people and I’ll ask her how she thinks we can helpthem. Usually she offers them her snacks in case they may behungry. There’s a collection bin in a nearby neighborhood, andwhenever we go that way, we always bring clothes to drop off.These are my way of introducing her to the idea that kindnessis a fundamental principle of Judaism. I want my children toknow that it’s important to think about and help people whohave had less fortunate experiences.” ■

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Here Come the BridesB Y LI NDA K . NAT HAN

n the legendary mean streets of Chicago, near AlCapone’s favorite haunts, David Friedman ’72Ycreates modern-day fairy tales. With brothers andpartners Dr. Michael Friedman ’68Y and Dr.

Philip Friedman ’67Y, the 50-year-old attorney andreal estate developer subsidizes Cinderella-like weddings formany of the city’s Orthodox Jews who could not otherwiseafford such large celebrations.

It seems a curious pursuit for a man who is president of acompany that manages 2,000 apartments and 5 hotels in theChicago area. But not for this Yeshiva College graduate who,at age 19, ran the school’s blood-drive program. “I think Yeshi-va set the pace for the rest of my life,” he says. It’s a life thatmust include “time for studying Torah” (he spends severalhours each day) and time to “excel in my profession.”

Those youthful days at YU cemented his belief in gemilathesed, which Friedman translates as “good deeds—granting akindness and consideration for your fellow man.”

After Friedman’s 84-year-old father, Aron, died eight yearsago, the family established a memorial endowment to expressthat deeply held value. Their first idea was to establish a loanfund to help certain Orthodox families, especially those ofrabbis, Hebrew schoolteachers, and heads of yeshivas, pay forweddings. The biggest hardship, Friedman explains, is onthose people obligated to invite “huge numbers of guests.”Distraught fathers of brides would seek aid from loan fundsor take out second home mortgages. A typical wedding, saywith 400 guests, would average $50 per person, to totalbetween $25,000 and $30,000.

Friedman’s wife, Ronna, conceived of the wedding pro-gram, which works like this: Friedman’s F&F Realty owns andmanages the Midwest Conference Center, originally built asa convention hotel. Trade shows, banquets, and large meet-ings rent the space, which holds up to 3,000 people.

Every other month for the past four years, the center hasbeen transformed into the perfect setting for a huge wed-ding—some 40 so far. In fact, Friedman cut a hole in the roofand installed a removable skylight so that the wedding cere-mony would be open to the sky, which has mystical signifi-cance to many couples.

Fathers of the brides pay just $18 per guest. Friedman cov-ers the remainder, including the costs of professional chefs, akosher kitchen, food, an open bar, linens, silk floral arrange-ments, silver candelabra, and serving pieces. High-school stu-dents from local yeshivas volunteer alongside members ofFriedman’s family to serve as waiters.

Ronna acts as wedding coordinator, making sure each cer-emony starts on time and that pictures are taken at the rightpace. Friedman’s brother stir-fries chicken at the openingreception. Friedman, himself, meets with the chef beforeeach event to review and order ingredients.

Before each ceremony, bride and groom host individualreceptions at which elaborate hors d’oeuvres are served. Later,the three-course dinner begins with appetizer and salad, orfruit plate and soup. Then comes chicken Kiev, chickenWellington, or grilled chicken with side dishes. A Viennesetable overflows with chocolate fondue, pastries, tarts, fruits,and cakes. The retail value of the same wedding at a Chicagohotel would be $75 to $80 per person, Friedman says.

“We’ve never turned anyone away,” says Friedman, whorequires only that the beneficiary be a “full-time servant of theOrthodox Jewish community” and have financial need.

Friedman used to worry that “if only charity weddings wereheld here, the bride might feel like a second-class citizen.”Now, drawn by enthusiastic reviews, some of Chicago’swealthiest families have weddings at the conference center.

Friedman confesses that he doesn’t like to publicize hislargesse, or the gifts and letters that keep pouring in. “I wantto germinate the idea,” he says. ■

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Our Man in AfghanistanBY LI NDA K . NAT HAN

o stranger to exotic situations, Dr. Elie KrakowskiYH,’68Y remembers his accommodations inAfghanistan: Guards with machine guns crouchoutside his quarters; snakes crawl nearby. Inside,rats scramble in the ceiling above his bed—a

sleeping bag atop a thin mat. In an adjoining room, anotherguest dispatches a scorpion.

“Hardly a four-star hotel,” Krakowski says half-jokingly.Is he afraid? “I can’t afford to be,” responds the Pentagon

adviser on terrorism whose expertise includes Al Qaeda, Iran,and Iraq. A former assistant professor of political science atYeshiva and Stern colleges, Krakowski is senior vice presidentof a new Washington, DC, think tank called Global PolicyExchange; he also is president of EDK Consulting, an inter-national political and security risk management firm.

“The work I do entails meeting with people in high-riskprofessions who sometimes end in a violent manner,” he says.Take this example: In 1998, Krakowski arrives in an armoredcar to meet with Hamid Karzai (now president of Afghan-istan) in his home. Several months later, Taliban agents mur-der Karzai’s father. Or this: Krakowski’s picture is snappedwith Commander Ahmed Shah Massoud, head of Afghani-stan’s Northern Alliance forces fighting the Taliban. Fourmonths later, Massoud is killed by Al Qaeda assassins.

Krakowski has been involved with Afghanistan since the1980s, when he became special assistant to Richard Perle,President Reagan’s assistant secretary of defense. Recalling a

ride he took in an antiquatedMI-17 Soviet helicopter be-tween jagged mountaintopsnot far from an ongoingTaliban offensive, he adds:“Some of my friends told methat I was either crazy or ahero to do that.”

Krakowski, whose mother,Anna, taught Tanakh (Bible)and French literature at Sternand whose brother, Menahem,

is a four-school alumnus, lives in Baltimore. He now overseesa project to promote regional cooperation among Afghani-stan’s neighbors to bring stability to that war-torn country. Theproject is funded by a grant from the Smith RichardsonFoundation (a private American foundation). He says his mis-sion could be described as a “solo diplomatic effort.”

For Global Policy Exchange, he focuses on cultural differ-ences and the relationship between culture and policythroughout the world. “The reality of globalization has tendedto obscure a simultaneous and conflicting trend: the reasser-tion of separate identities by sometimes very small groups.We need to pay greater attention to this and examine ways ofbridging differences,” he says.

Now 54, Krakowski lectures throughout the United Statesand abroad on international terrorism and other nationalsecurity issues. An observant Jew, he is strict on his journeysregarding dietary and Sabbath travel restrictions. Fortifiedwith kosher food packed by his wife, Silvia (Wetzler) ’73S,F,Krakowski nonetheless has what he calls “complicated” culi-nary experiences. Last year in Shanghai, for example, a lunch-eon was given in his honor, “although there was nothing Icould eat.” To make him feel at home, a high-level ChineseCommunist party official invited Shanghai University’s JudaicStudies chairman—who is not Jewish.

Once, in Afghanistan, when hosts implored him to eat, hedeclined, explaining the rudiments of Jewish dietary law. Aftera moment, someone remembered a lone pot used only forboiling water. With their guest’s permission, he boiled somepotatoes for Krakowski to eat.

Krakowski takes it all in stride. In fact, reflecting on thefood difficulties he has encountered, he says: “If only interna-tional problems were as easy to solve as my dietary ones!”

If only life were a piece of cake. ■

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Potpourri

Any Openings?Alumni who are looking to hire students or graduates or whoknow of full-time, part-time, and internship positions avail-able at their workplace, please contact Ira Jaskoll ’71Y,R,director of the Office of Placement and Career Services(OPCS), 212-960-0845 or [email protected].

Get Your Copy HereAlumni can now read undergraduate student newspapers TheCommentator (YC) and The Observer (SCW) online. Visitwww.yucommentator.com and www.yuobserver.com for the lat-est news, features, and editorials about campus life. Alumnican have The Commentator delivered to their homes by call-ing 212-928-8637 or contacting [email protected] forcost and subscription information.

Cemetery Plots Available in IsraelThe Yeshiva College Alumni Association extends a specialoffer to its religiously qualified members to purchase ceme-tery plots in the Rabbeinu Yitzchak Elchanan-YeshivaUniversity section of Eretz HaChaim Cemetery in Israel,located 15 minutes outside of Jerusalem on the way to BeitShemesh. Plots are priced at $3,900. YCAA has provided thisservice for more than 30 years to some 2,000 people.

Parents Fund DriveAttention parents of undergraduate students: Support yoursons’ and daughters’ education by contributing to the YeshivaUniversity Parents Fund. Donations enhance academic pro-grams, technical infrastructure, and quality of student life.Parents may designate their gift to the undergraduate schoolof their choice. For more information, contact the Office ofUniversity Alumni Affairs at 212-960-5373 or at [email protected].

The Office of University Alumni

Affairs thanks the following

authors for submitting their books

to the Alumni Authors Library.

Publications received since the

last Yeshiva University Review

include:

Ten Books

Rabbi Marc Angel ’67Y,B,R

Teacher Stories

Dr. Marguerite Hansen-Nelson ’82W

Flight of a Butterfly

Bryan B. Kagan ’76Y

Local Power in the Context

of the Democratic State:

The Case of Israel

Chaim Kalchheim ’56Y

Wildfire and Stiff-Necked

People, Bottle-Necked System

Prof. Sam Lehman-WilzigYH’67

Everything You Need to Know to

Have a Healthy Twin Pregnancy

Dr. Gila Leiter ’78S,A

How to Win a High School

Election

Jeffrey A. Marx ’96C

12 Books of Biblical

Interpretation

Dr. Elihu A. Schatz ’54Y,R

The Essential Guide to Wills,

Estates, Trusts, & Death Taxes

Alex J. Soled YH’43

Yiddish and English: A Century

of Yiddish in America

Sol Steinmetz ’53Y,R

The Illuminated Soul

Aryeh Lev Stollman ’76Y,A

The Fugu Plan

Mary L. Swartz ’88C

To display your work in the

Alumni Authors Library, please

send a copy to the Office of

University Alumni Affairs,

Yeshiva University, 500 West

185th Street, BH723, New York,

NY 10033-3201.

Thank you toalumni authors

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Alumni AwardsAs we go to press, eight YU’ers will be honored by their re-spective undergraduate alumni associations December 18 atthe Midtown Campus’ Geraldine Schottenstein CulturalCenter. Graduates of YC, SCW, and SSSB will be recognizedat a joint alumni associations-sponsored ceremony anddessert reception at which the 46th Annual Bernard RevelMemorial Awards, 20th Annual Samuel Belkin MemorialAwards, 7th Annual Norman Lamm Award, and 12th SamuelBelkin Literary Award are to be presented.

YCAA Revel Memorial Award recipients: Avery NeumarkYH,’84Y of NYC, for Community Service Leadership; LeonChameides ’55Y of West Hartford, CT, for ProfessionalAchievement; and William Altshul ’72Y,F,R of Silver Spring,MD, for Religion and Religious Education.

SCAA Belkin Memorial Award recipients: Sora Brazil’73S,W of Oceanside, NY, for Professional Achievement;Lillian Cantor ’71S of Edison, NJ, for Jewish Education; andDeena Jarashow ’84S of Fair Lawn, NJ, for CommunityService.

The SSSB Norman Lamm Award recipient is JasonSchwartz ’93SB of Teaneck, NJ, for Business Achievement.

Dr. David Schnall YH,’69Y,R, dean of YU’s Azrieli Grad-uate School of Jewish Education and Administration, is theSamuel Belkin Literary Award recipient for By the Sweat ofYour Brow: Reflections on Work and the Workplace in ClassicJewish Thought.

YU’s Online Community:An Indispensable Career ToolYeshiva University is ready to help its graduates navigate thistough job market. Launched last year, YU’s Online AlumniCommunity features career and networking services. Main-tained by the Office of University Alumni Affairs, the OLCenables YU graduates to:• Add a job posting to the databank to help fill a position, orsearch the job posting databank for available opportunities;• Add a resume to the resume databank, or search the data-bank to fill a position;• Become a mentor to share career advice, or find a mentor inyour field of interest; and• Find links to other useful career related sites.

“The OLC is a multifaceted networking facility that offersvarious resources, through which alumni can develop employ-ment and other invaluable connections nationwide,” saidOffice of Placement and Career Services director Dean IraJaskoll ’71Y,R. “Graduates should take advantage of the careerservices center to facilitate their job search and help othersgain employment.”

Benay Lindenauer, career development coordinator atWurzweiler School of Social Work, said, “The OLC’s careerservice center is a viable means of communication for allalumni especially in an age where the Internet is such a fre-quently used tool for finding employment.”

Additionally, the OLC helps friends and former classmatesstay in touch, reconnect, exchange ideas, and promote busi-nesses and services. It features an interactive alumni di-rectory, Business Yellow Pages, and bulletin boards wherealumni can post messages to other alumni.

Other features include the capability to build and store apersonal webpage with up to one megabyte of free disk space;hot links to other web resources; events calendar for upcom-ing YU alumni functions around the world; and free perma-nent email addresses.

To register for the OLC, alumni can go to www.yu.edu/alumni and click the “Online Community” button, or log ontotheir school’s alumni association Web site and click the“Online Community” button. Registration is a one-time pro-cess. Membership for YU grads is free. To learn more, con-tact Robert Saltzman, University director of Alumni Affairs,at 212-960-5373, toll free 877-YU3-3857, or by email [email protected].


alumni

SCW—’63

Dorothy CohenShoshana EisenbergAliza FeldmanHinda HeislerShifrah JungreisSherill KatzDeva LeitnerPearl R. Patt

SCW—’78

Ellen T. AzizollahoffZiva BlankrotSara GoldbergCheryl L. GreenfieldShira A. GrossShifra R. KurzCeril LisbonAviva MiskinNina MullerKarol L. NathanSara PeretzJean S. Rosenkranz

Ronnie S. SchneiersonLeah SlivkoAviva L. TeitzDeborah Warhaft

SCW—’93

Lauren A. BrownRebecca DarlingSara EisenJessica FishbeinJodi S. FrancesHelene GilkarovLisa HawkMichal SchwartzJulie SeisneyRina SussmanMarcy A. Wasserman

SSSB—’93

David Ghermezian

SSSB—’98

Miryam Nussbaum

YC—’53

Chananya BerzonDaniel BonchekEmanuel FormanAaron GelmanJacob GlickmanArthur GootkinMeyer GrajowerEdward J. JakubovitzMarshall KohnDavid E. MillerSolomon SchonfeldIrvin ShannonJoshua Youlus

YC—’78

Gerald I. AdlerEliezer BinyaminAvi FeldManuel S. GreenbergGary R. HoffmanSteven E. LangnasGerald E. Masel

Moshe E. PreilEmmett SaveEmmett SaxeNachum SchnitzerSolomon R. SchraderChanan SimonSheldon B. SmallGerald E. WaselIra ZuckermanMatityahu Zuckerman

YC—’93

Michael K. AaronYitzchak A. BlauPhilip M. BrookeMichael A. EisenbergGil Y. ElmalehKenneth J. HackelAmi HordesHoward M. KatzHillel N. LevinsonTzvil Shiloni

Dateline: Israel

Our Brothers’ KeeperMore than 650 Israelis have been killed and more than 4,500wounded in over two years of Israeli-Palestinian violence. InKarnei Shomron, a half-hour drive from Tel Aviv and home toShimshon Halpern YH,’60Y and his wife, Miriam, severalJews have been murdered in attacks on a neighborhood malland in drive-by shootings.

Last year, our YU Israel Alumni honored Halpern, whosefive children and 13 grandchildren all live in communities inYehuda and Shomron, in recognition of Israelis who reflecttheir country’s tenacious desire to fight terrorism. He accept-ed the award at the YUIA annual dinner on condition that theorganization establishes a scholarship fund for terrorist vic-tims. The fund was launched at the dinner, at which YUIAnamed Halpern, an attorney, to oversee it. Halpern emigratedto Israel in 1970.

“The first thing was to determine where scholarship needis greatest,” Halpern said. Some months ago, he and Miriam,a social worker, broached the idea to other social workers,

agencies, and headmasters of various schools. “We decidedthat right now our concentration has to be at the high schoollevel—yeshivas and ulpanot, where tuition can total thou-sands of dollars per student,” he said.

After consulting with the headmaster of the regional girls’ulpana, two area families emerged as being in most need ofimmediate help: one from Ginot Shomron, whose mother waskilled, father and a daughter seriously wounded, and otherchildren slightly wounded in a drive-by shooting; and onefrom Itamar, who lost four members when a terrorist infiltrat-ed the community and broke into their home.

So far, YU alumni have raised enough money in Israel forscholarships for one girl in each family. Additional money isbeing raised to assist other victimized families as well.

“Right now, we’re helping those who have been physicallydevastated by terrorism,” Halpern said. “But a future goal ofthe YU Terrorist Victims Scholarship Fund is to help familieswho are victims of the economic havoc terrorism has wreaked.Many people no longer have the means to pay for their chil-dren’s education.”

For information about the YU Terrorist Victims Scholar-ship Fund, contact Halpern at [email protected].

LostReunion-YearAlumni

We’ve lost track of the

following alumni from

SCW, SSSB, and YC whose

classes will celebrate

reunions this coming

spring. If anyone knows

the whereabouts of these

graduates, please contact

the Office of University

Alumni Affairs.


Seth Kaufman ’00C, Rachel Nash ’99C, and

Myriam Sanchez ’00C met up at one of Cardozo’s

monthly networking sessions sponsored by

Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.

Members of the YC Class of ’77 held their 25th anniversary reunion this past

spring. Organizers were Zvi Friedman, Neil Halpern, Ben-Zion Krupka, Danny

Levine, Yoni Mozeson, and Joe Rothstein.

Reunion Highlights

The SCW Class of ’77 celebrated its 25th anniversary reunion thanks in

great part to the efforts of reunion organizers Wendy Kaplan Friend, Karen

Lewinter Mazurek, Dale Leslie Eichenbaun-Pianko, and Caroline Stern.

Members of the SCW Class of ’62

gathered for their 40th anniversary

reunion. From left: Claire Langer,

Rochelle Rosenbaum, Gilda Vogel,

and Rosalie Berman, reunion chair.

Members of the YC Class of ’52 met for

a reunion last May and were initiated

into YU’s Golden Shield Society.

January 2003

■ Sunday, January 12

10 am–12 noon

Piecing it Together: TheLevine Rogarshevsky TourLower East Side TenementMuseumNew York City

■ Tuesday, January 21, 7–9 pm

Helping Others Cope withthe Threat of Terrorism

Dr. Harvey Schlossberg ’71F

Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Brookdale Center/Room 100855 Fifth AvenueNew York City

February 2003

■ Sunday, February 2

9:30 am–3 pm

Meeting the Challenges ofOlder Adults: CombiningPolicy and Practice

National and InternationalPerspectives on Aging, inMemory of Celia B. Weisman,DSW

Wilf CampusWeissberg Commons, Belfer Hall2495 AmsterdamNew York City

■ Wednesday, February 12

Developments in Trusts andEstates

Prof. Stewart Sterk andLawrence Garbuz ’95C

2.0 CLE credits in skillsDetails forthcoming

■ February 26, 7–9 pm

Hot Topics in Ethics: RecentDevelopments in New YorkEthics Law

Prof. Ellen Yaroshefsky andRichard Maltz ’79C

2.0 CLE credits in ethics

March

■ Wednesday, March 12

7–9 pm

New York Practice Update2003

Prof. Burt Lipshie

2.0 CLE credits in skills

■ Monday, March 31–

Tuesday, April 1

Supreme Court AdmissionUS Supreme CourtWashington, DC

April

■ Monday, April 28

Challenges of Being anOrthodox Mystery Writer

Rochelle Majer Krich, ’69S

May

■ Thursday, May 1

CSL reunion celebrations

■ May 3–31

Month of Learning

■ Sunday, May 4

SCW Class of 1963 reunion

■ Thursday, May 22

YC Class of ’53 reunionYU Golden Shield SocietyLuncheon

June

■ Wednesday, June 4

AECOM class reunions andCME seminar

Alumni Leaders at the HelmYeshiva University alumni association presidents for2000–2003 and their hometowns are:

Albert Einstein College of Medicine:

Dr. Roger Duvivier ’74 of New Rochelle, NY

Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law:

Howard Abrahams ’94 of New York City

Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology:

Mary Ellen Carty, PsyD, ’97 of Mount Vernon, NY, andSherry Gaines Cutler, PsyD, ’97 of Great Neck, NY

Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary:

Rabbi Shmuel Goldin, ’73Y,’76R of Englewood, NJ

Stern College for Women:

Linda Kuhl Stock ’81 of Fair Lawn, NJ

Sy Syms School of Business:

Chaim Haas ’97 of New York City

Wurzweiler School of Social Work:

Joel Katz ’81 of Morris Plains, NJ, and Annette Prager ’96 of Bergenfield, NJ.

Yeshiva College

Joshua Annenberg ’89Y, ’93C of Teaneck, NJ


RSVP at least one week in advance to the Office of UniversityAlumni Affairs at 212-960-5373 or at [email protected].

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bookshelf


A Bronx Palace of Torah

By I. Nathan Bamberger ’51R,Soncino PressNew York, NYRabbi Bamberger writesabout Kingsbridge HeightsJewish Center, the Bronx synagogue that was his pro-fessional home. The bookincludes a foreword by thelate Rabbi Israel Miller’38Y,R, YU vice presidentemeritus who served thereas congregational rabbi for25 years; and memorial tributes to both him and the late Rabbi AbrahamKupchick YH,’52Y,R, whoalso occupied the Kings-bridge Heights pulpit.

A Dark Side of History:

AntiSemitism Through the Ages

By Jerome A. ChanesYH,’64Y,WSCW and WSW adjunctprofessorAnti-Defamation LeagueNew York, NYThe book is a serious yetaccessible survey of the history of anti-Semitism.Featured as a Faculty Book

of the Year by Barnard Col-lege, it takes the reader fromthe pre-Christian ancientworld through anti-Semitismin the 20th century, includ-ing contemporary Europeand the United States.

The Uncle Book: Everything

You Need to Know to be a Kid’s

Favorite Relative

By Jesse Cogan YH,’72YMarlowe & CompanyNew York, NYA guide to handling the joysand responsibilities of beingan uncle, it includes helpfuladvice on everything fromchanging diapers and child-proofing a home to givinggifts and planning specialuncle excursions.

A Parent’s Guide to Sex, Drugs,

and Flunking Out:

Answers to the Questions

Your College Student Doesn’t

Want You to Ask

By Joel C. Epstein ’87CHazelden Publishing &Educational ServicesCenter City, MNAddresses issues parentsand students face in select-ing a college and adjustingto the transition of leavingfor school. Also, the bookdiscusses hard questionsparents, teachers, and stu-dents should ask of collegeadministrators about safety,student health, judicialaffairs, tuition costs, and the quality of the educationthey are purchasing.

A Poisoned Chalice

By Jeffrey Freedman, associateprofessor of historyPrinceton University PressPrinceton, NJIn 1776, someone tried tomurder the entire congrega-tion of Zurich’s main cathedral by poisoning the communion wine. Curiousthat such a heinous act hadcaused a furor at the timebut that he had never comeacross any historical refer-ence to it, Dr. Freedmanresolved to investigate thecrime after he completed hisPhD. The resulting storyreads like a fascinating“whodunnit” with all the im-mediacy and color of a con-temporary murder mystery.

Eliezer Berkovits: Essential

Essays on Judaism

Edited by David Hazony’94Y,BThe Shalem CenterJerusalem, Washington, DCEssential Essays is the firstbook to compile the mostsignificant works of RabbiEliezer Berkovits, an out-standing Jewish thinker ofthe 20th century. It touches

on issues such as morality,nationhood, Zionism, andtheology.

Me’ah She’arim, Essays in

Medieval Jewish Spiritual Life

in Memory of Isadore Twersky

Coedited by Carmi HorowitzYH,’66Y,B,R, GeraldBlidstein YH,’60Y,B,R, EzraFleisher, Bernard SeptimusMagnes PressJerusalem, IsraelAmong the 31 contributorsare David Berger ’64Y,R, visiting professor of Jewishhistory; Ephraim Kanarfogel’77Y,B,R, E. Billi IvryProfessor of Jewish History;and Sid Z. Leiman, visitingprofessor of Jewish historyand literature. The scholarspay tribute to the late YizhakTwersky ’64R, Littauer Pro-fessor of Hebrew Literatureand Philosophy at HarvardUniversity.

Sources for Funding: The Israel

Foundation Directory

Eliezer D. Jaffe ’55YDevora PublishingNew York, NYProvides detailed descrip-tions and analyses of thehundreds of foundationsthat are prepared to fund

nonprofit organizations andprojects in Israel. Givesreaders access to what eachfoundation looks for, andhow to reach them.

Principles of Spiritual Activism

By Avi Weiss ’66Y,B,RKTAV Publishing House, Inc.Hoboken, NJA collection of the author’sideas, papers, and articlesconcerning his lobbyingexperiences on behalf ofSoviet Jewry, Israel, and hisHolocaust-related activism.

Jewish Baby Boomers:

A Communal Perspective

By Chaim Waxman ’63Y,B,RState University of New York PressAlbany, NYThe author, a professor of

sociology and Jewish studiesat Rutgers, does a compara-tive analysis of the baby-boomers—Jews between 26and 44 years of age in 1990,when the National JewishPopulation Survey wasreleased—with the preced-ing generation of AmericanJews, as well as with baby-boomers from other faithcommunities.

Blues in the Night

By Rochelle Krich ’69SBallantine Books,New York, NYThe author launches hernew Molly Blume detectiveseries with Blues in theNight. A report of an acci-dent off Mulholland Driveleads the heroine to a chill-ing picture of an unfortu-

nate woman and the menaceof murders past and present.

Kli Yakar: Shemos

Translated into English byElihu Levine ’54YTargumSouthfield, MIA translation of a major section of Kli Yakar, themonumental commentary toTorah of Rabbi Efraim ofLuntshits, perhaps the mostparadoxical and possibly themost difficult of all the pop-ular commentaries to Torah.

The Golden Land

By Joseph Telushkin ’70Y,B,RHarmony BooksNew York, NYA handsome coffee-tablebook, each double-pagespread chronicles a different

era of Jewish history, from1492 to current events. Thebook includes reproductionsof historical artifacts, paint-ings, and photographs of thevarious eras. Poems, jokes,and anecdotes from the different periods are inter-spersed throughout.

Seven Heavens: Inspirational

Stories to Elevate Your Soul

By Levi Meier, YH,’71B,RDevora PublishingNew York, NYBased on the author’s day-to-day experiences as Jewishchaplain of Cedars-SinaiMedical Center in LosAngeles, Seven Heavensdefines the fears and hopesthat engulf us when we arefaced with the specter of ourown mortality.


YU Publications

The Social Work Forum

Volume 35

Wurzweiler School of Social WorkWinter/Spring 2001–2002Coedited by Eric Levine’79,’94W, WSSW adjunctassistant professor and Daniel Pollack, WSSW associate professorEthics and the ethical con-cerns of social work practiceprovide the context for thisvolume of The Social WorkForum. Authors featured inthis volume represent prominent colleagues and

scholars in the field whohave played leading roles inarticulating, writing, teach-ing, testing, and practicingsocial work ethics.

Tolerance, Dissent, and

Democracy: Philosophical,

Historical, and Halakhic

Perspectives

Edited by Moshe SokolJason Aronson, Inc.Northvale, NJYU alumni, faculty, rosheiyeshiva, and experts in thefield explore the balancebetween modernity and traditional Jewish thoughton issues that have received

public attention followingthe assassination of PrimeMinister Yitzhak Rabin. Thecollection is part of RIETS’Orthodox Forum Series,edited by Rabbi Robert S.Hirt YH,’59Y,B,R, assistantto the president, RIETS.

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment

Law Journal 2002

Vol. 20, No. 2

Matthew Bower ’02C, editor-in-chiefCardozo School of LawThis issue focuses on copy-right law as communicationspolicy. Contributionsinclude essays on digital TV,

the CommunicationsDecency Act and the DigitalMillennium Copyright Act,and an historical analysis ofcopyright liability.

Journal of Jewish Music and

Liturgy 2001–2 / 5762–3

Vol. 24

Edited by Macy NulmanYH,’45YCantorial Council of Amer-ica and Philip and SarahBelz School of Jewish MusicEssayists include CantorNulman, who authored“Prayer Before Praying,” andDr. Menachem Raab ’44Y,B,R, who wrote “The Tallit.”

’30s■ Personal News

Abraham Guterman ’33Y,CSL honorary director, celebrated his90th birthday.

Rabbi Sidney NissenbaumYH,’33Y,R and wife Hannah celebrated the birth of a greatgrandson, Yonatan Eleazar, bornto their grandchildren, Rebeccaand Yaniv, in Jerusalem.

’40s■ Professional News

Rabbi Morton L. GordonYH,’47Y,R founded a modernOrthodox synagogue in LittleNeck, NY, incorporated underthe name County Line Synagogueand serving the Little Neck andLake Success areas.

Dr. Alvin I. Schiff ’47Y,F,AGSIrving I. Stone DistinguishedProfessor of Jewish Education,published “Ahdut Yisrael Ba-Masoret Hayehudit” in theJournal of Jewish Education. Helectured on “Educational Lessonsfrom Our Past: What TalmudicSages and Biblical ExegetesMight Inform Us about theContemporary World and JewishScenes,” in Hebrew, HebrewSociety, Temple Emeth, Del RayBeach, FL.

Rabbi David Skopp YH,’44Y andwife Florence were honored for50 years of service to theMemphis Jewish community,Baron Hirsch Congregation,Memphis, TN.

■ Personal News

Rabbi Judah Feinerman ’47Y,R,member of the YU and RIETSBoards of Trustees and formerchairman of the RIETS Board,and wife Shepsie celebrated thebirth of great grandson Zvi

Shmuel Moss, son of Ephraimand Zahava Moss.

Moshe Kohn YH’40, veteranJerusalem Post columnist, andwife Barbara announce the marriage of their grandson, YakirShapiro, of Beit Yatir, to HannaHodaya Gerstle, of KarneiShomron, the first of their 24grandchildren to marry.


Julius Berman’56Y,R, YUtrustee andRIETS Boardchairman, waselected chair-man of theBoard of

Directors, Conference on JewishMaterial Claims Against Ger-many. He is a partner with theNew York law firm of Kaye,Scholer LLP.

Rabbi Simcha A. Green ’59Y,R isthe director of Chidon Hatanach,a national Bible contest forJewish teens, and administratorof Beis Midrash HaRav ShmuelYaakov, a yeshiva for post-highschool boys in Newark, NJ.

Dr. Hirsch Lazaar Silverman ’51Fwas awarded the honorarydegree of Doctor of Literature bythe World Academy of Arts andCulture at the 21st WorldCongress of Poets, Sydney,Australia. He is a clinical andforensic psychologist in privatepractice, and has published 10volumes of poetry.

■ Personal News

Rabbi Simcha A. Green ’59Y,Rannounces the birth of his 10thgrandchild.


Dr. Jerome Chanes ’64Y, WSSWadjunct professor, delivered sem-inars at Columbia and Yale uni-versities, and lectured at OxfordUniversity. His recent publica-tions include a book, A Dark Sideof History: Antisemitism Throughthe Ages (see Bookshelf), andseveral op-ed articles andreviews in the English-languageForward.

Dr. Bruce Ettinger ’68Y,F wasappointed to the Board ofDirectors, National Association ofPrivate Special EducationCenters (NAPSEC), Washington,DC. He also took part in a panelpresentation at the annualNAPSEC Conference, MarcoIsland, FL.

Pinhas Friedenberg ’67Y present-ed registrar concerns related tothe events of Sept. 11 at a con-ference of the Middle StatesAssociation of Collegiate Regi-strars and Admissions Officers(MSACRAO). He was also inter-viewed for the association’sWisconsin group newsletter.

Dov Gilor ’67F received the OtL’mitnadav Award from thePresident of the State of Israel forhis work with olim (immigrants)in the Tehilla organization.

Dr. Stanford M. Goldman ’61Y,Awas elected 2002 president ofthe Houston Radiological Society,and president of the AmericanSociety of Emergency Radiology,and first vice president in succession, Texas RadiologicalSociety for 2002–3.

Max B. Greenwald ’62W, acolonel in the US Army and aparole administrator with theCalifornia Department of Correc-tions, has retired. He is a rating

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specialist for the Department ofVeterans’ Affairs. He lives withwife Carol in Irvine, CA, and hastwo children and a grandchild.

Prof. Carmi Horowitz YH,’66Y,B,Rwas appointed to a commissionof the Israeli Ministry of Educa-tion to revise the curriculum forthe teaching of Jewish history inhigh schools. Among his recentpublications have been articles in the Encyclopedia for ReligiousZionism, Hazofeh, JewishQuarterly Review, and Essays inMedieval Jewish Spiritual Life inMemory of Isadore Twersky(’64R), a book he edited withProf. Gerald Blidstein YH,’60Y,B,R. Among the contributors:

Professor Tsvi Groner YH,’60Y,B,Dr. David Berger ’64Y,R, YU visit-ing professor of Jewish history,and Dr. Ephraim KanarfogelYH,’77Y,B,R, SCW E. Billi IvryProfessor of Jewish History. Anarticle about him appeared inETROG: A Periodical for Educa-tion, Judaism and Society.

Rabbi Menahem Meier YH,’66B,Rdelivered the closing remarks atthe 248th CommencementCeremony of Columbia Univer-sity, May 2002.

Rabbi Bernhard Rosenberg’69Y,F,R,AG received a “Chaplainof the Year” award from the NewYork Board of Rabbis for hiswork with families of victims of

Sept. 11. The board honored himagain with its annual Rabbi IsraelMowshowitz Award, recognizinghis contribution to advancing theimage of Judaism in the commu-nity. He edited an anthology ofwriting by students at the MosheAaron Yeshiva High School,South River, NJ, What the Holo-caust Means to Me: TeenagersSpeak Out.

Dr. Henry I. Sobel ’65Y,R, seniorrabbi of the CongregaçãoIsraelita Paulista (CIP), repre-sented the Latin-AmericanJewish Congress at the “Day ofPrayer for Peace in the World,”an interreligious event held inAssisi, Italy.

Dr. Jeffrey Tillman ’64Y publisheda halakhic work in Hebrew onthe nature of Shemini Atseret. He is a dentist living inRa’anana, Israel.

■ Personal News

Prof. Carmi Horowitz YH,’66Y,B,Rand wife Sara announce the birthof granddaughter Tzion Fraidl,born to children Orli and RabbiYoel Manowitz, and the marriageof son Amitai Shlomo to Pe’erWinter.

Beatrice Lubitz ’68F celebratedthe bat mitzvah of her twingranddaughters, Melanie andSarah Lubitz, at Temple Sha’araiShomayim, Mobile, AL. She livesin Aventura, FL.

Rivka (Richman) YH,’75T andDavid Monderer YH’68 celebratedthe marriage of their daughter,Elisheva, to Yonatan Edel.

Terry Zalma ’67W celebrated thebirth of granddaughter ShandraLorraine and daughter AlysaDawn Back’s graduation withhonors from her medical residen-cy program.


Gary J. Bomzer ’79W is executivedirector, Michael-Ann RussellJewish Community Center, NorthMiami Beach, FL.

Dr. Paul Claman ’76Y wasappointed full professor, depart-ment of OB/GYN, in the facultyof medicine, University ofOttawa. He is also director of theuniversity’s in vitro fertilizationprogram.

Adam Dicker YH’79 was promot-ed to associate professor of radi-ation oncology, Thomas JeffersonUniversity, Philadelphia.

Jill Elliot ’78W opened a veteri-nary practice at The Ritz Canine,a luxury hotel and day spa fordogs and cats in Manhattan.

Sue Freedman ’74W, a geriatricsocial worker in Israel, was pre-sented with an OutstandingSocial Worker Award byJerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmertfor her work with volunteers.

Rosa Perla (Resnick) Helfgot’76W participated in the UN’sSecond World Assembly onAging and the UN’s World NGOAssembly on Aging, both inMadrid, and in the ResearchForum on Aging, Valencia, Spain.She was appointed represen-tative of the InternationalAssociation of Schools of SocialWork and the InternationalAssociation of Gerontology to theUN’s Economic and SocialCouncil and Department ofPublic Information. She alsoauthored an article, “Memoriesof Brazil,” in 120 HIAS (HebrewImmigrants Aid Society) Storiesin celebration of the 120thanniversary of the establishmentof HIAS.


Sharing the Fun in Troubled Times

After the Palestinian-Israeli violence touched his ownextended family, seven-year-old Ely Harow, the son ofPenny (Finkelstein) ’92S and Reuven Harow ’91SB in BeitShemesh, made it his mission to spread a little light-hearted cheer among other bereaved families. With thehelp of his father, he launched a drive to collect as manyCoca-Cola bottle caps as possible to win the soft drinkgiant’s annual summer promotional contest. If he won,he decided, he would choose a trip to Luna Park, the Tel Aviv amusement park, and invite others who had losta loved one.

The Harows spread the word via their community’semail list and hundreds of people got involved. They setup bottle cap deposit bins throughout their neighbor-hoods and when the family took a mid-summer trip backto the US, friends took over. When Coca-Cola notifiedthem that they had won and that the Tel Aviv park wouldbe closed off especially for them, they contacted families,schools, organizations, and the Yesha Regional Council,asking people affected by the violence to come along.

After a few hiccups—Coca-Cola suddenly became jit-tery about following through after being stung by previouscontest controversies—Ely had his wish come true.Almost 1,000 children from many different communitiestook advantage of a day of carefree fun and adventure.

William Hochman ’77Y celebrated25 years of employment atStandard & Poor’s, where he is avice president of sales.

Rabbi Alan M. KalinskyYH,’73Y,F,R retired as chaplainand lieutenant colonel from theUS Air Force Reserves.

Amy (Herskowitz) Katz ’78W isexecutive director of the RabbiJoseph B. Soloveitchik Institute,an educational and leadershipinstitute in Brookline, MA.

Guy Lander YH’70 is chair, NewYork State Bar Association’s(NYSBA) 5,000-memberBusiness Law Section. He is apartner at Davies Ward Phillips &Vineberg, LLP.

Sarah (Holstein) Maslow ’71Swas appointed vice principal ofLaurel High School, suburbanWashington, DC.

Joshua Schwartz YH,’74Y waselected dean of Jewish studiesfaculty, Bar-Ilan University. Hecontinues to serve as director,Ingeborg Rennert Center forJerusalem Studies, and as pro-fessor of historical geography atthe university.

Eugene (Yehuda) Singer ’73Y,F,Ris a technical writer working forEricom Software Jerusalem forthe past four years. His wife,Edna (Davidowitz) ’77T, is anEnglish teacher and a rabbinicpleader in the rabbinical courts

in Israel. They have five childrenand two grandchildren, and livein Mitzpe Yericho.

Rabbi Samuel Solomon ’75Y,B,Ris chairman and CEO of DOAR,Lynbrook, NY, which providescourtroom presentation technolo-gy, litigation support, and trialservices. The firm won the LongIsland Entrepreneur of the YearAward for Technology from Ernstand Young.

Joel Weiss ’75W stepped downas executive director, JewishFederation of Greater Springfield,MA. He plans to start his ownfundraising consulting business.

Miriam (Glassner) Zucker ’71Wruns her own practice, Directionsin Aging, which provides geriatricconsultation and care manage-ment services in Westchester,NY, and Fairfield, CT. FrancineSchweiger ’92W has been work-ing there since 1998. Miriamcofounded the CertificateProgram in Professional GeriatricCare Management in conjunctionwith the Brookdale Center onAging, Hunter College. Sheserves as an instructor in theprogram and lives with her familyin New Rochelle, NY.

■ Personal News

Shelley (Billauer) ’82S,B andhusband Rabbi Moshe Berliner’79F,W,R have a new grandson,Yosef Yaakov, born to Michal andYonatan Berliner.

Dr. Paul Claman ’79Y and wifeJennie celebrated the bar mitz-vah of their youngest son, Zolly.

Adam Dicker YH’79 and wifeCarolyn were recently blessedwith the birth of third childYehuda.

Dr. Joel Fredman ’79Y and wifeMartha celebrated the bat mitz-vah of daughter Shoshana Fayne.

He reports that both mother anddaughter delivered amazingdrashot (discourses).

Yaffa (Simon) YH’72 and hus-band Rabbi Martin KatzYH,’71Y,F,R announce the birthof granddaughter Esther to sonYehuda Katz and his wife,Devorah. Mazal tov to them andalso to great grandparents E. Yechiel Simon YH,’49Y,R,Band wife Natalie.

Rabbi Samuel Solomon ’75Y,B,Rand wife Meryl announce thebirth of a grandson to childrenYaffa and Aryeh Goldschmiedt,great grandson for Rabbi VictorSolomon YH,’50Y,R and wifeMarcia Rita.


Laura (Kamil) Hall ’80W present-ed a workshop on “Meditation as an Individual Tool and anAdjunct to Psychotherapy,” NorthCarolina National Association ofSocial Workers (NCNASW) FallConference, Wrightsville Beach,NC. She would love to hear fromher fellow WSSW alumni.

Rabbi Nathaniel HelfgotYH,’85Y,AG,R was appointeddean of students, YeshivatChovevei Torah RabbinicalSchool in New York City. Hechaired a major conference on“Mental Health and the OrthodoxCommunity,” sponsored by thatschool, the Orthodox Union, andthe Orthodox Caucus. He wasnamed editor of the Torah journalOr Ha-Mizrahi, published by theMizrahi Organization. He is alsothe author of Divrei BerakhotU’Moed, which is dedicated tothe memory of his father, Dr.Salomon David Helfgot, andincludes approbations from

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Cardozo Graduate Nominated as Federal Judge

The legal career of Hon. Sandra J. (Elstein) Feuerstein ’79C,Cardozo’s highest-ranking judicial alumna, is about to soar evenhigher. The CSL Board vice chairman was nominated as Justice, USDistrict Court for the Eastern Division of New York, by PresidentGeorge W. Bush. Upon confirmation, she will be the first CSL gradu-ate to serve as a federal judge.

Justice Feuerstein’s legal career has been punctuated by a num-ber of other ground-breaking distinctions. Enrolling in Cardozo after

her children began attending school,she graduated from CSL’s first class.After serving as a Nassau Countydistrict court judge, 1987–1993, shewas elected a state Supreme Courtjustice in 1994 and was sworn in byher mother, Immigration JudgeAnnette Elstein. They are thought tobe the first mother-daughter judicialteam in the nation. Later, she wasthe first woman from the 10th judi-cial district to be appointed to theAppellate Division in the SecondDepartment by Gov. George E.Pataki in 1999.

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President Norman Lamm’49Y,R,B, and Rabbi AharonLichtenstein ’53Y,R, RabbiHenoch and Sarah D. BermanProfessor of Talmud, Carolineand Joseph S. Gruss Institute in Jerusalem.

Uri Jaffe ’86W is director,Volunteer Bureau at the Tel-Aviv-Yaffo Municipality. He sendsregards to his former classmatesand welcomes all WSSW alumniwho visit Tel Aviv to volunteerwith the municipality. He can beemailed at [email protected].

William Kaplan ’87W is founderand clinical director, House CallsCounseling, a human servicescompany in Chicago and neigh-boring communities that providesindividual, couple, and familycounseling at home. He taught achild welfare course as a part-time instructor at Loyola Univer-sity in Chicago, and is on theadvisory boards, Illinois Father-hood Initiative and Rogers ParkYouth Consortium. He lives withwife Jennifer and daughterHannah in Evanston, IL.

Josh Levine ’85Y is a partner inan Israeli venture capital fund,Neurone Ventures, and wifeSarah May Levine ’90S is a prac-ticing veterinarian in RamatHasharon. They made aliya twoyears ago, and live in Raananawith their three children.

Cornelia (Lipscomb) Martin ’89Wruns an adult education programin North Carolina.

Andrea (Ebert) Matlaw ’83W iscoordinator of social services at askilled nursing facility for the eld-erly in Nahariyya, Israel, whereshe works with many former citizens of the Soviet Union. Shelives with husband Ethan andthree children in the WesternGalilee. She would love to hear

from her old WSSW classmates.

Jonathan Nierenberg ’88SB waspromoted to vice president ofglobal services, IDT Corporation,Newark, NJ. He was a guest lec-turer on real estate managementand business development in theworld of global telecoms at SSSBfor the past four years.

Gail Prystowsky ’87W is codirec-tor, Geriatric Resource Services,a private geriatric care manage-ment practice in northern NJ and NY.

Rabbi Zvi Sobolofsky ’87Y,AG,Rwas appointed a rosh yeshiva atYU’s Yeshiva Program/MazerSchool of Talmudic Studies. Forthe past five years, he has beenan instructor at SBMP and SCW.He is also the rabbi of K’halAdath Jeshurun, Paramus, NJ.

Dr. Michael S. Trieger ’85F is apartner and clinical psychologist,Springfield Psychological Centerin Springfield, IL.

■ Personal News

Rona (Leff) YH,’89S and JoshuaAnnenberg ‘89Y,C, YCAA presi-dent, announce the birth of adaughter, Ayelet Tikvah.

Shira (Winkler) ’95S,AG andMichael Ashendorf ’87Yannounce the birth of a daugh-ter, Elianna Claire Chaya, grand-daughter of Rabbi Neil N. WinklerYH,’69Y,R,B and wife Andrea,and first great grandchild of Dr.Harold Nierenberg, former deanof SSSB, and wife Laura.

Ronit (Ben-Ami) ’91S and AdamGreenblum ’88Y gave birth totheir fourth daughter, Ariella.Adam is a sales manager forEricom Software in Jerusalemand Ronit is a speech-languagepathologist. They live in AlonSh’vut.

Mike Greenwald ’87Y and wifeVivian have a new daughter,Tamar Miriam.

Ilana (Shapiro) YH,’86S andRabbi David Hertzberg YH,’85Y,Rannounce the bar mitzvah oftheir son, Aharon Hertzberg,grandson of Rabbi JoshuaHertzberg ’51Y,R and wife Claire.

Rabbi David Horwitz YH,’81Y,B,R,the Rabbi Dovid LifshitzProfessor of Talmud, YeshivaProgram/Mazer School ofTalmudic Studies, married FraidyShapiro in May 2002. Mazal tovalso to parents Emanuel ShapiroYH’61 and wife Rosalie, andMinna Horwitz.

Mazal tov to Chaim W. KatzYH’84 and wife Sheri on the birthof son Jordan Baruch.

Revital (Levin) Kempe ’85S andhusband Joseph celebrated thebar mitzvah of son Yitzi in LosAngeles.

Lisa (Siegelman) YH,’89S and UriLazar ’89Y announce the birth ofthird daughter Eliana, grandchildof Abe Siegelman ’60Y,W andwife Doris; Arlene Siegelman;and Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Lazar.

Nomi (Bak) Levene ’89S and hus-band Jonathan announce thebirth of fifth child Chava Yardena.

Dr. Jordan I. Mann ’88Y and wifeAlison announce the birth of ason, David, grandson of Joan(Ehrlich) ’87C and Dr. AbrahamM. Mann ’59Y,B,R special assis-tant to the vice president for uni-versity affairs.

Tzippi (Chiger) YH,’93W andAdam Rosen ’89C announce thebirth of son Michael Jeremy.Mazal tov also to Eleanor Chiger,office manager at YeshivaUniversity Museum, and hus-band Rabbi Jacob Chiger.

Amy (Geller) Rothenberg YH’86and husband Harry announcethe birth of son Yosef Uzziel.Mazal tov to them and to thegrandparents, Nat Geller YH,’56Yand wife Sandy.

Shifra (Chiger) Siegel ’87S andhusband Aaron celebrated thebat mitzvah of daughter EtaRachel. Mazal tov also to EleanorChiger, office manager at YeshivaUniversity Museum, and hus-band Rabbi Jacob Chiger.

Robyn (Weitz) YH’87 and JeffreySocol YH,’85Y, senior associatedirector, YU facilities manage-ment, celebrated their 10th wed-ding anniversary in June 2002.

Rabbi Nahum Spirn ’87Y,B,R andwife Rebecca announce the birthof Elazar Simcha, grandson toRabbi Charles A. Spirn ’47Y,Rand wife Regina.

Rabbi Marc Spivak YH’89,MSDCS coordinator of communi-ty programs through new media,and wife Debra celebrated thebirth of twins, Yonatan Yeshayaand Yehuda Baruch. RabbiSpivak made the pages of JewishWeek when he acted as mohel(ritual circumciser) for the twoboys and also for the son of hiswife’s brother and sister-in-law,Daniel Price ’99SB and Lea(Rosenfeld) ’01S. The triple britmilah (circumcision) ceremonywas held at Weissberg Commonson YU’s Wilf Campus.

Elyse Summer YH’85 and hus-band Heshy Summer YH,’87Y,celebrated the bar mitzvah of son Yossi.

Judi (Adler) YH,’87S and Dr.Benjy Weiss ’81Y announce thebirth of third child Tzvi; grandsonof Debby (Riback) YH’53 and Dr.Mel Adler YH,’57Y, and Dr.Shmaya and Alice Weiss; andgreat grandson to Tillie Adler.



Andrea (Pressman) Cohen ’95W is president, CAMP Consultants,a firm specializing in the devel-opment of children’s campingprograms for organizations and resorts.

Tomás Cruz ’93W is educationalcoordinator with responsibility for student field placement coordination at the Institute forCommunity Living, Brooklyn, NY.

Richard Gins ’95W directs socialservices at STRIVE/East HarlemEmployment Service and theFathers STRIVE for Family father-hood program. He runs work-shops on manhood and creativityand recently published a book ofhis ink drawings of subway ridersdone over 16 years.

Reuven Harow ’91SB is an invest-ment banker at Gerard, KlauerMattison, in Israel, where he liveswith his wife, Penny (Finkelstein)’92S, and four children.

Debra (Yoshor) ’95S is an associ-ate at the Philadelphia law firmof Pepper Hamilton LLP. Hus-band Dr. Michael Kupferman ’95Yis a resident in otolaryngology atthe University of Pennsylvania.

Lyudmila (Levy) Leviyeva ’99W isa social worker in outpatient psy-chiatry at Jacobi Medical Centerin the Bronx and an adjunct pro-fessor, department of social sci-ences, Mercy College, NY.

Elliot Lowenstein ’98Y graduatedfrom Harvard Law School andthe John F. Kennedy School ofGovernment in June with a JurisDoctor degree and a Master ofPublic Administration degree.

Dr. Rafael Medoff ’91B authoredBaksheesh Diplomacy: SecretNegotiations between American

Jewish Leaders and Arab Offi-cials on the Eve of World War II(Lexington Books). Dr. Medoffserved as guest editor of twoissues of the scholarly journalAmerican Jewish History, devotedto the theme “America and theHolocaust: New Perspectives.”

Michele Rose ’90W is a trainingand control analyst, KentuckyPsychoanalytic Institute, Louis-ville. She is on the clinical facultyin the department of psychiatry,Vanderbilt University School ofMedicine, Nashville, TN.

Beverly Schneider ’95W is a psy-choanalyst serving her secondterm on the board of the NationalPsychological Association forPsychoanalysis (NPAP). She vol-unteered as a crisis counselor atPier 94 to victims of the WorldTrade Center disaster. She pub-lished an article, “A Letter toFamily and Friends, September13, 2001, New York City,” in TheJournal of Religion and Health(vol. 14, no. 1, Spring 2002).

David Schwartz ’99Y is attendingHarvard Business School. Con-gratulations to him and parentsDr. William Schwartz YH,’65Y,RIETS Board of Trustees mem-ber, and Debbie Schwartz, YUHSSteering Committee member.

Paul Smith ’94W earned hislicense in clinical social work(LCSW) and is a social worker atPioneer Memorial Hospice, serv-ing clients in their homes in twocounties in rural North CentralOregon. Previously, he worked asthe program director, Tri-CountyEarly Education, a rural HeadStart Program in the same area.

Narcisa Toledo-Akay ’97W isworking as a bilingual socialworker, Committee on SpecialEducation, District 30, Queens,NY.

Steve Tuckman ’90Y is supervisorof Montefiore Medical Center’sAmbulatory Pharmacy in theFamily Care Center.

■ Personal News

Gila (Rosenthal) ’99S and RabbiMichael Arnold YH,’95SB,AG,Rhave a baby son, Moshe ZeesaArnold, grandson of Mindy(Hertzberg) YH’72 and JoshuaRosenthal YH,’71Y,B, and great-grandson of Rabbi JoshuaHertzberg ’51Y,R and wife Claire.

Shoshana (Levitz) ’91SB andhusband Steven Arnold ’91Y,gave birth to third child BinyaminYeshaya, in Beit Shemesh, Israel.Mazal tov to both grandparents,Shirley (Roy) Lerner ’64S,F andhusband Marty, and Philip LevitzYH’60 and wife Ruth; and togreat grandmother Fay Levitz.

Meira Schneider ’98S, SCAA vicepresident for communications,and Simcha Atik YH’94announce their marriage. Mazaltov also to parents Sheila(Shapiro) Schneider YH,’63S andhusband Sheldon, and Shifra(Goldwasser) YH’68 and Tzvi AtikYH,’71Y.

Daniella Bak ’91S has marriedDr. Reven Shnaps and alsoearned her PhD in mathematics.Mazal tov to the couple and toDr. Yosef Bak ’66Y,BG,R and wifeMiriam.

Stacy (Abroms) ’99W and AriBandler ’99Y,W announce thebirth of son Gadi Binyamin inColumbus, OH.

Tsipora (Winkler) ’99S andMichael Cantor ’99SB got mar-ried and had a baby girl. Mazaltov to them and parents RabbiNeil N. Winkler YH,’69Y,B,R andwife Andrea.

Congratulations to Adam Z. Cohen’95Y and wife Marcy on the first

birthday of son Aden Joseph.

Katie E. Cohen ’99S married ZviSpivack of Efrat, Israel.

Andrea (Pressman) Cohen ’95Wannounces the birth of secondson Jacob Samuel.

Rita (Ackerman) YH,’92S andhusband Daniel GoldbergYH,’92Y have a new daughter,Abigail Mia (Miriam Avigail).Mazal tov also to grandparentsElaine (Horowitz) YH’65 and Dr.Jacob Ackerman ’68Y,A andPhyllis and David Goldberg.

Drs. Cindy (Tuckman) ’91S,A andEzra Haller ’95A announce thebirth of twin girls, Nicole andEmily.

Rabbi David Israel ’96R, MSDCSdirector, and wife Sharaannounce the birth of son EytanYehoshua.

Elana Kermaier ’95B and RabbiYaakov Kermaier ’94Y,B,R ofHong Kong celebrated the birthof second child TziporaNechama, grandchild of Judy(Wasser) ’64S and Dr. AllanKermaier ’64Y, and Arlene andMoshe Fox.

Noam Koenigsberg ’96Y,B andwife Leora announce the birth ofthird child Ayelet Rachel.

Congratulations to Debra (Yoshor)’95S and husband Dr. MichaelKupferman ’95Y on the birth ofsecond child Gabrielle Susanna,and to grandparents JosephYoshor YH,’49Y and wifeShulamith.

Dina (Maslow) Lancer ’96S,C andhusband Adam announce thebirth of Tamar Rena lastFebruary. The couple lives inEast Flushing, NY. Mazal tov alsoto grandparents Sarah (Holstein)Maslow ’71S and husband David.

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Aleeza (Maslow) ’98S,W andhusband Rabbi Natanel LebowitzYH,’97Y,R had their first child,Gavriella Rena, in Jerusalem.Mazal tov to grandparents Sarah(Holstein) Maslow ’71S and hus-band David, and Shana RadenskyLev YH’67.

Rena (Hartstein) ’91S and Dr.David Maslansky YH,’91SBannounce the birth of sonAvraham Mordechai, grandson ofDr. Paul Hartstein YH’55 and wifeElaine, and Ronnie and EdwinCohen.

Drs. Shari (Wiesel) ’95A andRanon Mann YH,’91Y,A announcethe birth of a son, JonathanIsaiah, grandson of Joan (Ehrlich)’87C and Dr. Abraham M. Mann’59Y,B,R, special assistant to thevice president for universityaffairs, and Abraham WieselYH’57 and wife Betty.

Dr. Ofira (Katz) ’92S and SamMichelson ’92Y announce thebirth of twins, Yael andMenachem, in Alon Shvut, Israel.Ofira is a dentist and Sam worksas a product manager at a soft-ware company.

Dr. Arie Pelta ’96Y and wifeAlyssa had a baby girl, AvigayilSara. Mazal tov also to grandpar-ents Josie (Kaplan) ’71S and hus-band Joel Meyers ’69Y. Dr. Peltais doing his residency in generalsurgery at Long Island JewishMedical Center.

Michelle (Brisman) Priest ’96Fand husband David announcethe birth of son Mark Zachary.She is a neuropsychologist atComprehensive Neuropsycho-logical Services, Cheshire, CT.

Zippora (Feuer) Razin ’95S andhusband Ely announce the birthof a daughter, Rachel TzofiaRazin, granddaughter of StuartRazin ’63Y,F, national director of

Canadian Friends of YU, andwife Marsha.

Rabbi Eli Reich ’94Y,R and wifeRona had their fourth child,Chaya Tzipora, in Israel. Mazaltov to them and also to grandpar-ents, Dr. Michael Reich ’61Y,Aand wife Sabina and Arlene andMoshe Fox.

Jonathan Snowbell ’98Y and wifeAtara have a new daughter,Moriyah Yikrat. Best wishes alsoto grandparents Shira(Finklestein) YH’70 and husbandDr. Josh Daniel YH,’72Y.

Elly Storch ’94Y,AG,R and wifeYafa announce the birth of fourthchild Rivka. Mazal tov to themand to grandparents ChanaZweiter ’72S and husband RabbiStuart Zweiter YH,’72Y,R ofIsrael, and Shimi and ShirleyStorch.

Malkie (Winkler) ’00SB and Dr.Michael Zelenetz ’97Y announcetheir marriage. Mazal tov to themand parents Rabbi Neil N.Winkler YH,’69Y,B,R and wifeAndrea.

Benji Zimmerman YH’96 andAlisa Rhein celebrated their wed-ding. Hearty wishes to them, parents Sherry (Scheinberg)Zimmerman ’74S and husbandSaul, and Rabbi Daniel Rhein’70Y,F,R and wife Tova; and tograndparents Rabbi Israel LernerYH,43Y,R and wife Chaniett.


Aimee Goodman ’01W was ap-pointed the first full-time devel-opment director, Atlanta YAD, theJewish Young Adult agency.Previously, she worked in thefund-raising arm of the JewishFederation of Greater Atlanta.

■ Personal News

Aliza (Kessel) ’00S and husbandRabbi Daniel Altmark ’00Y have anew son, Binyamin Noach,grandson of Barbara (Baras)Kessel ’71S and husband Allen.

Shifra Chana (Rothstein) ’02S andAriel Penkower ’00Y celebratedtheir marriage. Mazal tov to par-ents Prof. Monty PenkowerYH,’63Y and wife Yael, and Molly(Goodman) ’78S and JosephRothstein ’77Y,W; and to grand-parents Lillian Stavisky Penkower(wife of the late Rabbi Murry S.Penkower YH,’32Y,R), David andBarbara Rothstein, and RabbiIrving Goodman ’52Y,R,F and wife Lea.

CondolencesBruce Bekritsky ’68Y (and wifeHelene [Andrews] ’68S) and Joy(Bekritsky) ’71S (and husbandDr. Michael Bashevkin ’69Y) onthe loss of their father, RabbiMorris Bekritsky.

Dorothy (Gewirtz) Berman ’59S,F,SCW Board vice chairman, andhusband Julius Berman ’56Y,R,YU trustee and RIETS Boardchairman, both YU Guardians,on the loss of her mother, LolaGewirtz.

Rabbi Benjamin Blech ’54Y,R,associate professor of Talmud,JSS, on the loss of his mother,Rebbitzin Gittel Blech. Condo-lences also to grandchildren YaelBlech ’85S, Jordana Blech ’86S,and Ari Blech YH,’95Y.

Leon Charney ’60Y, YU Guardianand CSL Board member, andBryna Blumenreich YH,’63S onthe loss of their brother, HerbertCharney.

Tomás Cruz ’93W, on the loss ofhis older brother, Francisco Cruz,in the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on

the World Trade Center.

Rabbi James Gordon YH,’44Y,Rand Rabbi Macy GordonYH,’53Y,R on the loss of theirbrother, Herman Gordon.

David Grashin ’76Y,C and wifeDebbie on the untimely loss oftheir son, Ari.

Blu (Genauer) ’59T,B and RabbiIrving Greenberg YH’49,R, formerassistant professor of history,1959–64, and associate profes-sor of history, 1964–72, at YU,on the untimely loss of their son,Jonathan.

Julia Koschitzky and husbandHenry on the loss of her mother,Elli Podolski. Koschitzky familymembers are YU Benefactors.

Dr. Evelyn Kraut ’75S on the lossof her mother, Elaine Silver, agenerous YU and RIETS support-er, who endowed the Gertrudeand Morris BienenfeldDepartment of Rabbinic Servicesat RIETS with the Silver andBienenfeld families in memory oftheir parents. Condolences tohusband Dr. Walter Silver andbrother Marvin Bienenfeld, YUBenefactor, YU and RIETS Boardmember, and founding YC Boardchairman.

Steven Major ’90Y, YC Boardmember, (and wife Aliza [Raskas]’92S) on the loss of his father, Dr.William Major.

Michelle (Brisman) Priest ’96F,on the loss of her twin brother,Mark Brisman, who died in theSept. 11 attack on America.

Ann and Marcus Rosenberg, YUGuardians, on the loss of theirdaughter, Margot Pulitzer. Thecouple established the Marcusand Ann Rosenberg Scholarshipat YU.


Alona (Wollman) Shapiro ’76Sand husband David on theuntimely loss of their son, Eitan.

Rabbi Louis M. TuchmanYH,’44Y,R and Nachum Tuchman’73Y of Tekoa, Israel, on the lossof their wife and mother, Ruth.

Yosef Wosk ’81F,R on the loss ofhis father, Morris J. Wosk, whowith his late wife, Dena, was aMaster Builder at YU. He wasone of North American Jewry’sforemost leaders and philanthro-pists, and was appointed to theOrder of Canada.

David Zuckerbrot YH’84 on theloss of his father, Irving.

We MournSamuel Borenstein in March ’02.He was an AECOM Founder withhis first wife, Blume, and YUGuardian with his second wife,Lillian Brown Borenstein.

Aaron E. Bulman ’69Y in March’02. He was a former employeeof the Equitable (now AXA), aBRGS student, a published poetand president of the Washington

Heights Congregation. Condolen-ces to his wife, Shelley Bulman’72S; children Pinny Bulman ’95Y,Meir, Devorah, and Rena; motherRebecca Bulman, former Englishteacher, MSTA; sister Eve (Bulman)’75S and her husband, Rabbi JayJacobs ’69Y,R; and family.

Anna Tulin Elyachar in November’01. She was a distinguishedcommunal leader who, with herlate husband, Colonel Jehiel R.Elyachar, was a YU Benefactor.Condolences to the wholeElyachar/Tulin family.

Dr. Meir Simcha Feldblum’51Y,B,F,R in August ’02. He wasa professor at Bar-Ilan Universityand a former professor ofTalmudic literature at BRGS.Condolences to his wife, Ayala;daughters Chaya and Miriam;sons Avi Feldblum YH,’77Y,B andSholom Feldblum YH’74; andgrandchildren.

Hon. Marvin E. Frankel in March’02. He was chairman of the CSLBoard, 1979–1981, and played asignificant role in the strengthen-ing of the law school. A formermember of the Federal District

Court in Manhattan, he was anattorney and partner at KramerLevin Naftali & Frankel. Condo-lences to his wife and family.

David Goldman in June ’02. Hewas a founding Board member,Wurzweiler School of Social

Work. He andhis late wife,Muriel, wereYU Guardianswho support-ed many ini-tiatives atWSSW and

established the Muriel and DavidGoldman Scholarship Fund.Condolences to his children.

Judith (Klaperman) GoldmanYH’59 in May ’02. Condolencesto her father, Rabbi GilbertKlaperman ’40Y,R,B, and family.

Pinchas (Michael) Goldner in July’02. A student in MYP and atSSSB, he was tragically killed ina car accident in California.Condolences to his family.

Rabbi Stanley Greenberg YH,’52Y,W,R in June ’02. Condolences tohis children.

Rabbi Philip Horowitz YH,’42Y inMay ’02. He was a politicalactivist, founder of the BrithEmeth Congregation, Cleveland,OH, and former president of theCleveland Board of Rabbis.

Rabbi Arthur Dov Kahn ’46Y,R inMay 2002. He was a distin-guished rabbinic scholar andleader, and rabbi emeritus ofCongregation B’nai Emunah,Tulsa, OK, whose membersestablished the Rabbi Arthur D.Kahn Chair in Hebrew Literatureat YU and the Rabbi Arthur D.Kahn Scholarship at RIETS.Condolences to his wife, Miriam;children, Shoshana (Kahn) ’73S,David L. Kahn ’78Y,C; and family.

Edward Kimmel in January ’02.He was a Benefactor and Boardmember of AECOM. With hiswife, Lucille, he dedicated a floorat the Albert Einstein CancerCenter in memory of their son,Alan, and established a scholar-ship fund for MD-PhD students.Condolences to his wife; daughter Joan Eigen, an AECOMBoard member; son-in-lawRobert Eigen, past chairman of

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Chaim Potok YH,’50Y, scholar, ordained rabbi, andworld-acclaimed novelist, died in July ‘02 after abattle with cancer. His debut novel, The Chosen,was so popular that it is attributed with having giventhe wider world its first glimpse of hasidic Judaism.Published in 1967, it was on The New York Timesbest-seller list for more than six months and wasmade into a hit feature film in 1981.

The son of hasidic Eastern European immi-grants, Potok was raised in the Orthodox communi-ty of the Bronx. He attended YU’s Manhattan Boys’High School (now YUHS), and graduated summacum laude from YC in 1950, by which time he was writing short stories. He received a master’s inHebrew literature from the Jewish Theological

Seminary in 1954 and ordination as a Conservativerabbi. He earned a PhD in philosophy from theUniversity of Pennsylvania in 1965.

Potok taught at the University of Judaism in LosAngeles, 1957-59, and was editor-in-chief of theJewish Publication Society, 1965-74. He later com-mitted himself to writing full time. His other books,all published by Knopf, include the novels MyName Is Asher Lev, In the Beginning, The Promise,a sequel to his debut, and Davita’s Harp; as well asnon-fiction works Wanderings: Chaim Potok’sHistory of the Jews and The Gates of November, achronicle of the many generations of one SovietJewish family.

Chaim Potok,Renowned for Portrayalof Hasidic World

AECOM’s Men’s Division; and thewhole family.

Dr. Edward Levy in April ’02. Hewas professor of music andchair, music department, SCW.He was an accomplished com-poser whose music was per-formed in New York andGermany. Condolences to hiswife and brother.

Ruth Muss in April ’02. She was aYU Benefactor with her late hus-band, Rabbi Hyman Muss, aRIETS Board member. Shereceived a YU honorary degree in1996, and with her childrenestablished the Rabbi HymanMuss Torah Learning Center andBeit Midrash in the Ruth andHyman Muss Residence Hall,which she and her husband andchildren established at the WilfCampus. She was founding president, YUWO QueensChapter, and was active in YUWOover the years. Condolences toher children, Stanley MussYH,’60Y; Joshua Muss, YC Boardmember, and wife Harriet, YUWOPresidium member; granddaugh-ter Alyssa Muss YH’84, andwhole family.

Rabbi Abraham Neustein ’40R,Bin June ’02. He was head rabbiof The Jewish Center of BrightonBeach, Brooklyn.

Rabbi Marvin Pritzker ’44Y,R,B inDecember ’01. He had retiredfrom the rabbinate and lived inToronto and Florida. He served,among others, as rabbi of BethIsrael Synagogue of Halifax.Condolences to his wife, brother-in-law, Prof. Eliyahu Kanovsky’42Y, holder of the LudwigJesselson Chair in Economics,and family.

Dr. Alvin Radkowsky YH inFebruary ’02. He was a nuclearengineer for the US government

for much of his career. He devel-oped pioneering nuclear powertechnology, for which he washonored by the US Navy and YU,which gave him its MordechaiBen David Award in 1967.

Benyomen Leib Reiss YH’57 inNovember ’01. Condolences towife Eliza and brothers MosheReiss YH’55, Nechemiah ReissYH’58, and Isaac Reiss YH’61.

Martin Romerovski, in April ’02.He was a SCW Board memberand Guardian of YU with hiswife, Rose. They were also RIETSand YUHS Fellows andHolocaust Studies Fellows.Condolences to his wife, chil-dren, and grandchildren.

Helen Schneider in December’01. With her husband, Irving,she was a YU Benefactor, gener-ously supporting medicalresearch and education pro-grams at AECOM. Condolencesto her family.

Howard M. Squadron in Decem-ber ’01. A distinguished attorney

and influentialcivic andJewish com-munal leader,he was also aformer CSLBoard mem-ber. He estab-

lished CSL’s Squadron Programin Law, Media, and Society andplayed a significant role instrengthening the School. Condo-lences to wife Anne; brotherArthur; and children Bill, Richard,Diane, Seth, and Daniel.

Rabbi Chaim Zeev SteinbachYH,’68Y. Condolences to his wifeand family.

Ghity Lindenbaum Stern in July’02. Wife of the late NathanLindenbaum and then the lateMax Stern, who served for 35

years as the YU Board vicechairman and with whom shewas a YU Benefactor. She wasthe former SCW Board honorarychairman and received an honorary YU degree in 1987.Condolences to her childrenMaidy, Marcel, YU GuardianArmand Lindenbaum YH,’59Y, YUBenefactor Leonard, and GloriaKisch; grandchildren, and greatgrandchildren.

Rabbi David Teigman YH,’35Y,Rin January ’02. Condolences todaughters Shifrah JungreisYH,’63S and Naomi TaboryYH’64, and the whole family.

Israel Upbin YH,’32Y in January’02. He was a YC AlumniAssociation founder and presi-dent. Condolences to his wifeand family.

Harry Walker YH,’38Y in August’02. He was the founder of oneof the nation’s top speakers’agencies, the Harry WalkerAgency, which represents suchnotable figures as former Presi-dents Bill Clinton and Gerald R.Ford, and former Israeli PrimeMinister Ehud Barak. In a NewYork Times interview in 1979, hecited rabbis such as theBialystoker Rebbe as havinginculcated a love of speaking andstorytelling in him as a youngman. Condolences to his wife,Esther; daughters Judith Sametand Arlene Goldberg; brothersWilliam and Jack WalkerYH,’43Y; sisters Dvorah (Walker)Moscovitz ’39T and FlorenceSofer; grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.

Bronka Weintraub in November’01. She was a YU Benefactorand member of AECOM’sNational Women’s Division.

Herbert Willig ’40Y in January’02. Condolences to wife Toby,

brother Rabbi Jerry Willig ’38Y,R,and nephew Rabbi MordechaiWillig ’68Y,R, Rabbi Dr. Sol RothProfessor of Talmud and Con-temporary Halakhah at RIETS.

Michael Zheutlin ’69Y in March’02. Condolences to his wife,Karen (Russak) ’71S and entirefamily.

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Rabbi Nachman Bulman,Leading Jewish Educator

Rabbi Nachman Bulman YH,’46Y, R,renowned educator and writer, passedaway after a severe illness inJerusalem in July ’02. Thousands ofpeople attended the late-night funeralof the rabbi, described as “one of theleading Jewish thinkers and writers ofour generation” by his colleagues atJerusalem’s Yeshivat Ohr Somayach,where he was mashgiach and dean of students.

Rabbi Bulman was a leader inJewish education in Israel and the USfor more than 40 years. He spent thefirst 25 years of his career as a rabbiof American communities, foundinginstitutions such as an elementaryschool in Danville, VA, and the SarahShenirer High School of Boro Park,and Yeshiva of Far Rockaway, both ofNY. He also had a role in launchingThe Jewish Observer monthly. He relocated to Israel in 1975 and startedthe Kiryat Nachliel community inMigdal HaEmek shortly afterwards,later serving as rabbi in N’vei Yaakov,Jerusalem.

Rabbi Bulman’s writings and trans-lations are considered contemporaryclassics and include The Book of OurHeritage and Longing for Dawn. He issurvived by his wife, Sheindel, fivechildren, 25 grandchildren, and 10great-grandchildren.

endnote “FLORA’S QUILT”

“Stories Untold: Jewish Pioneer Women 1850–1910” is an exhibit of mixed-media works by Santa Fe artist Andrea

Kalinowski on exhibit at the Yeshiva University Museum through January 12. The series interweaves text, photog-

raphy, and quilt patterns to tell the stories of nine women who fled anti-Semitism in Europe between the mid-

1800s and the early 1900s for the prairies and plains of the American West. Ms. Kalinowski has uncovered a rich

history of American immigrants who preserved their Jewish tradition despite the isolation and hardships of fron-

tier life. “These women are just as much a part of our Jewish heritage as the biblical stories that are so familiar

to us. Their bravery and tenacity as pioneers is a source of great pride,” said Ms. Kalinwoski.


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