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Hebrew Theological College

Ninety Fourth
Annual Gala

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Honoring

Rabbi Michael A. Myers

Marbitz Torah and Master Educator Award

Rabbi Yeshaya Zimmerman

Distinguished Alumnus Award

Mrs. Naomi Samber

Woman of Valor Award

WESTIN O’HARE HOTEL
December 13th, 2016
14 Kislev, 5777

Hebrew Theological College, a member of the Touro College
and University System, a partner with the Jewish United Fund

in serving our community

Message from the Banquet Chairmen

It is both an honor and a privilege for us to serve as the
Banquet Chairmen for the Ninety Fourth Anniversary of
Hebrew Theological College. It is an honor because the
Yeshiva has played, and continues to play, such a vital
role in the growth of Yiddishkeit in our community. We
are proud to honor Rabbi Michael Myers, Marbitz Torah
and Master Educator Award, Rabbi Yeshaya
Zimmerman, Distinguished Alumnus Award, and Mrs.
Naomi Samber, Woman of Valor Award.

The continued growth of the Beis Midrash, Blitstein
Institute and Fasman Yeshiva High School makes it a
privilege to be part of the exciting vigor of Hebrew
Theological College. The quality of its programs and
curriculum makes the Yeshiva a truly remarkable Torah
institution.

Throughout the dinner tonight, and in the pages which
follow, you will learn of the generosity and
accomplishments of our honorees and the recent
achievements of our Yeshiva. Celebrating together gives
us an opportunity to reflect on yesterday’s successes as
we prepare for the challenges of tomorrow. With the
help of the Ribono Shel Olam, we know that it will
indeed be a bright future for our beloved Yeshiva.

Finally, we thank the entire administration, staff and
core of volunteers who have made tonight possible. May
we have occasion to share in smachot for many years to
come.

David and Gayle Aronin

Shabsai and Debby Wolfe

Rabbi Michael A. Myers

Marbitz Torah and Master Educator Award

Rabbi Michael Myers was
raised in Canton, Ohio, and
received his early Jewish
education at the local
community Hebrew school
where he was inspired by
teachers and local rabbis to
study in yeshiva. His parents
welcomed his desire to pursue
Torah studies and sent him to
Yeshivat Haichal HaTorah in
New York and to Telshe Yeshiva in Wickliffe, Ohio, where he
studied through high school graduation.

Arriving at Beis HaMidrash LaTorah in 1965, Rabbi Myers
learned with such luminaries as Rav Hertzel Kaplan, Rav
Mordechai Rogov and Rav Aharon Soloveitchik, Dr. Joseph
Babad, Dr. Eliezer Berkovits and Dr. Leonard C. Mishkin, and
his beloved rebbe, Rabbi Hirsch Isenberg, zt”l, to whom he
attributes his love of the Hebrew language and TaNaCH.

Rabbi Myers is a musmach of our Yeshiva and has enjoyed an
award-winning education career spanning 50 years. He has been
teaching students at Blitstein Institute for more than two decades,
and at Ida Crown Jewish Academy for nearly four. From 2002
until 2013, Rabbi Myers served as Dean of HTC’s Kanter School
of Liberal Arts and the Bressler School of Advanced Hebrew
Studies, and he has served administrative roles in the Associated
Talmud Torahs, ICJA and Telshe High School. In 1986, he was
selected as a Jerusalem Fellow by the World Zionist
Organization.

Rabbi Myers is a sought-after speaker, delivering a weekly
parasha shiur at Cong. KINS every Shabbos for many years, and
sharing his Torah at many other Chicago forums throughout the
year.

Rabbi Myers and his wife, Bonnie, have together raised six
daughters, and now experience the joy of playing with many
grandchildren and a great-grandchild in America and in Israel.

Rabbi Yeshaya Zimmerman

Distinguished Alumnus Award

Rabbi Yeshaya Zimmerman grew
up in Brooklyn where he earned a
bachelor's degree in English at
Brooklyn College followed by his
master's in occupational therapy
from Columbia University.

In his late twenties Yeshaya began
to explore his Jewish identity, taking courses at Lincoln Square
Synagogue, where he eventually met his wife, Dr. Chava. Yeshaya
soon established a pattern of working part-time as a therapist and
learning part-time in Yeshiva University, an arrangement that would
continue for most of his life. When the Zimmermans chose to move to
Chicago, friends in Migdal Ha’Emek, Israel, where they had lived for
two years, referred them to Rabbi Jerold and Miriam, ‫ ז׳ל‬Isenberg,
marking the beginning of a long relationship with Beis HaMidrash
LaTorah, their spiritual home for 24 years until their aliyah in 2012.

During that time Yeshaya was privileged to have two very special
rabbeim: Rabbi Zvi Teller, ‫זצ׳ל‬, and Rabbi Avraham Friedman, ‫שליט׳א‬.
They and all of the Rebbeim (and the students, as well) contributed to
his spiritual growth. In 2000, he began teaching Talmud and English in
the Yeshiva. Outside of the Yeshiva, the Zimmermans were privileged
to be a part of the Sha'arei Tzedek Mishkan Yair community.

Upon their aliya, which united the Zimmermans with their four children
and their families, including 18 grandchildren, Yeshaya turned his
attention to full-time learning in the Gruss Kollel of Yeshiva University
in Israel, where he recently earned his semicha.

Dr. Chava Zimmerman received her M.D. from Wayne State
University in Detroit, and completed her residency in family medicine
at Brookdale Medical Center in Brooklyn. She has worked closely with
Rebbeim in Chicago on many medical issues within the community,
and continues to enjoy practicing medicine in Kiryat Arba.

Mrs. Naomi Samber

Woman of Valor Award

Mrs. Naomi Samber, Director of
Special Projects at HTC, is best
known to the community as
Managing Editor of the weekly
Likutei Peshatim, and Director of
HTC’s unique Shalach Monos
Project. Week after week, no
matter the weather, even when
she is out-of-town, Likutei Peshatim is assembled and edited by Mrs.
Samber, who in her patient and calm demeanor, is always there to help
people with their sponsorship insertions that follow the Divrei
Torah. And, while Purim is only one day each year for most people,
Mrs. Samber has Purim on her mind throughout the year, updating the
list of people in the Purim booklet, helping people place their orders,
seeking out new and exciting products to put in the Shalach Monos
baskets, writing the poems that accompany the baskets, and
coordinating the delivery of about 3,500 baskets on Purim Day.

She received a B.A. at Boston University and a Bachelor of Jewish
Education from Hebrew Teachers College (HTC!) in Brookline,
Massachusetts. Prior to joining our HTC staff in 1986, she taught at
Hebrew Day Schools and afternoon Hebrew Schools. She became
actively involved in educational and communal institutions
immediately upon her move to Chicago. A past-president of the Hillel
Torah PTA, the Galila Chapter of AMIT Women, the Congregation
KINS Sisterhood, and, together with her husband Moshe, ‫ז"ל‬, of the
HTC Yeshiva Parents Association. She is still busy with communal
activities and attending shiurim.

Mrs. Samber’s five children are living in New Jersey, New York,
Atlanta, and Chicago. Her three sons, Adam, Josh, and Aaron, are
graduates of HTC’s Fasman Yeshiva High School. Adam is a CPA,
living in Atlanta. Josh is a computer programmer, living with his wife
Bracha and their children in Passaic, NJ, and Aaron is in chinuch, a
Rebbe in Yeshivos in Queens, NY. He and his wife Gila and their
family live in Queens. Her daughter, Devora Millen, a computer
programmer, is the only Chicago resident, together with her husband,
Rabbi Eliyahu Millen, and their family. Her younger daughter, Sara
Engel, is a speech therapist, living with her husband, Dr. Yechiel
Engel, and their family, in Bergenfield, NJ.

Mrs. Samber enjoys spending time visiting with her many
grandchildren, and is proud to be the great-grandmother of two.

Message from the Rosh HaYeshiva
Rabbi Avraham Friedman

‫בס"ד‬

We have been reading the sidras of Sefer
Bereshis these past weeks. We learn that
Avraham Avinu was tested by Hashem
with ten major tests, and he passed them
all with flying colors.

Avram was unafraid to act. Despite the deep-seated beliefs of the
civilization in which he grew up, he broke their idols and even broke his
own father’s idols. The entire society of Ur Kasdim shunned him to the
extent that they gave him the choice of worshipping their idols or being
thrown into a fire, together with his monotheistic beliefs. He chose the
latter, yet miraculously emerged unharmed. The Torah alludes to this
story when it mentions that “G-d took Avram out from Ur Kasdim”.

The commentaters are troubled by the fact that the miracle of Ur Kasdim
is not explicitly mentioned in the Torah. The test of “lech lecha
me’artzecha…” — which on the face of it does not seem as great as the
test to leave his childhood home with the promise that things will work
out for his benefit — is spelled out in detail. Why does the Torah omit
the miracle of Ur Kasdim and instead magnify the miracle of “lech
lecha”.

Rav Simcha Zissel Brody, Rosh Yeshiva of Chevron, in his volume
“Sam Derech”, suggests an answer to this question. Rav Brody says that
people face two types of tests in their lifetimes. One type would be those
things that may be categorized as “glamorous tests” — defining
moments in a person’s lifetime. At such times, when a person is well-
aware that he is at a junction in his lifetime when he must make a crucial
decision — even one involving great self-sacrifice — he may be able to
muster the courage and determination to make the proper decision.

However, there are other tests in life — the daily type of challenges that
come our way, day in, day out — that each and every one of us face.
These tests are not glamorous. They are not exciting. They are very run
of the mill, but they are challenges nonetheless.

The test of “Ur Kasdim” was one of those glamorous defining-moment
types of tests. The test of “lech lecha” is typical of the “daily grind” type
of test. People sometimes have the capacity to rise above their day-to-

day challenges and to achieve spiritual levels above their normal
capacities.

At this year’s Banquet, our Yeshiva has the distinct honor and privilege to
have three very special honorees. All three have distinguished themselves
for their great mesirus nefesh and extreme dedication to our great Yeshiva.
At the same time, each and every one of them has performed all of these
meritorious acts with great humility.

Rabbi Michael Myers studied in our Yeshiva and distinguished himself as
a brilliant scholar of Talmud, History, Tanach, and the Hebrew language.
He later taught and served as the Dean of our college for many years. His
teaching of all of the subjects was always well-received and appreciated.
His middos tovos taught us all how to act as one should.

Rabbi Yeshaya Zimmerman was a talmid in our Yeshiva for many years,
even for several decades. He also served as a teacher in a number of
secular subjects and as a “meishiv” to many students in both our high
school and beis midrash. His lessons were very well-researched and were
always Toras Emes, because Rav Yeshaya Zimmerman and his rebbetzin
are the epitome of emes. Yeshaya also donated much of his precious time
(giving up much time and income from his other profession as an
occupational therapist) in order to assist our talmidim in their growth in
Torah and yiras Shamayim.

Mrs. Naomi Samber is a truly remarkable eishes chayil. She has utilized
her multiple talents and abilities for decades. As Managing Editor, she has
overseen and edited HTC’s weekly Lekutei Peshatim publication, along
with the Editor, Rabbi Ben-Zion Rand. Her work is professional and
heartfelt. It is truly amazing how she is able to put together this publication
each and every week without fail and always so informative and arranged
so orderly. Mrs. Samber has spearheaded our citywide Shalach Monos
project for decades. Each year, she is able to organize and direct this major
fundraising project of the Yeshiva, and coordinate brilliantly, during rain,
shine or snow, the delivery of more than 3,500 Purim baskets on Purim
day. She does all this, and always with a smile and a pleasant countenance.

Tonight’s guests of honor are prime examples of how to stand up to the
great tests of life, and to rise to great heights of achievement. But they also
teach us, through their unfailing and constant efforts and accomplishments,
how one can meet the challenges of daily life as well. We thank these great
people for all that they’ve done and are delighted that they have agreed to
be tonight’s guests of honor.

Message from the President of
Touro College and University System

and Hebrew Theological College

Dr. Alan Kadish

It is my distinct pleasure to welcome you to the Ninety
Fourth Anniversary Banquet for Hebrew Theological
College. Today, we celebrate our honored guests, Rabbi
Michael Myers, Rabbi Yeshaya Zimmerman and Mrs.
Naomi Samber, and everyone who has contributed to
another successful year at HTC. I am confident that together
we will be able to continue transforming our students’ hopes
into realities and strengthening our unique Jewish heritage.

In the four decades that have passed since Dr. Bernard
Lander founded Touro College with 35 students, Touro has
achieved a remarkable degree of success and growth. Since
then, the scope of Touro’s programs has broadened
exponentially to address the needs of our, now, nearly
19,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students.
Touro is now one of the largest graduate healthcare
educators in the United States. Touro’s ambitious vision for
setting the standard for Jewish education—academic
excellence with personal attention—expanded last year as
we welcomed Hebrew Theological College as a member of
the Touro College and University System.

The fundamental principles on which HTC and Touro were
founded are closely aligned—strengthening the Jewish
community and a commitment to academic excellence.
Touro’s original mandate required us to create innovative
educational programs and strategies to address the needs of
the growing Jewish communities of New York. Though we
have expanded our scope substantially, Touro remains
faithful to this mandate. Through our partnership with HTC,

Touro will be able to provide a more robust education to
strengthen the Chicago Jewish community and to offer HTC
students more academic and career advancement
opportunities.

Our mission to educate with a focus on social justice is
inspired by a verse in Deuteronomy, 16:20 “Justice, justice
shall you pursue.” The repetition of “justice” reveals its
centrality to our ideals and demands that we double our
efforts to achieve our mission. I am confident that we have
instilled in all our students, faculty and staff a commitment
to help humankind in the pursuit of justice.

I would like to thank the faculty, staff, and all the
community members who have contributed to HTC’s
important mission. The tremendous work of Brian Levinson,
Shabsai Wolf, Rabbi Shmuel Schuman, Rabbi Avraham
Friedman, Dr. Zev Eleff, and countless others is helping to
take this venerable institution to greater heights. I would also
like to thank everyone who made tonight’s dinner such a
wonderful opportunity to share our communal gratitude, and
I look forward to working together with all of you to
continue to strengthen HTC.

Message from the Co-Chairmen
of the Board of Governors

Brian Levinson Rabbi Shabsai Wolfe

As we celebrate our ninety fourth anniversary, it is with great joy
that we acknowledge the tremendous strides made by Hebrew
Theological College over the past years. One need only visit our
Yeshiva to feel its spirit; one need only walk into our Beis
Midrash during davening or at any time during the day’s learning
to realize what we have accomplished.

As Co-Chairmen of the Board of Governors, we feel an enormous
sense of responsibility to our students, to our parent body, and to
our supporters. It is our intent to bestow upon each and every one
of our students and their families the superb education and unique
perspective embodied by Beis HaMidrash LaTorah - Hebrew
Theological College.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank the Yeshiva’s
outstanding administration, faculty and staff for all of their hard
work and dedication. Nonetheless, it is difficult to find the words
to describe the amount of effort they exert day after day, year after
year. Rabbi Avraham Friedman, Rosh HaYeshiva and Rabbi
Shmuel Leib Schuman, Chief Executive Officer, have led an
extraordinary campaign to raise the standards of excellence in
Torah education. Rabbi Sender Kutner demonstrates an inordinate
ability to administer the day-to-day operations in the most
efficient and devoted manner. Our Director of Development,
Rabbi Gershon Seif and our Development Coordinator, Rabbi
Yaakov Friedman, foster new ties with still more supporters, and
renew ties with our former students. We would be remiss were we
not to thank the entire support staff and the cafeteria and
maintenance help. Their devotion to the Yeshiva surpasses
description.

We especially want to thank the Rabbeim for their mesirus nefesh
in diligently teaching and inspiring their students. As they prepare
to take their places as the Torah-true Jews of tomorrow’s
community, our talmidim are fortunate to have such sterling role
models.

In closing, we would like to thank tonight’s honorees, who truly
embody teaching, leading and building our future. Thank you for
joining us and together, may we continue to see Hebrew
Theological College grow and prosper, providing many continued
years of teaching Torah and Jewish education.

Message from the CEO
Rabbi Shmuel Leib Schuman

On behalf of HTC, I would like to
welcome all of you to our 94th Gala
Evening. We are hard at work
collaborating with our partners - the
Touro College and University
System - to improve all aspects and
divisions of our institution.

Our Rabbi Oscar Z. Fasman Yeshiva
High School students pursue an intensive dual program in
Judaic and General Studies. The extracurricular programs
offered continue to provide our students with enjoyable extra
learning and entertaining activities after school hours. There
is a palpable feeling of accomplishment and a strong sense
of school pride that permeates the halls. We just completed
the remodel of the freshman and sophomore wing of our
high school dormitory and hope to complete the entire
dormitory in the near future.

Our Beis Midrash students learn Torah with intensity and a
sense of purpose. They are growing not only in their Torah
knowledge, but in their middos and yiras shamayim. Our
advanced Kollel students and their families serve as role
models who inspire the entire Yeshiva, along with our
Semicha students who are hard at work preparing to become
Rabbis and future leaders of the Jewish people.

The Anne M. Blitstein Teachers Institute for Women, led by
Rabbi Binyomin Olstein, Dr. Esther Shkop and Mrs. Rita
Lipshitz, has earned its reputation as a nurturing
environment that offers academic excellence in both Judaic
Studies and Liberal Arts and Science classes. It is sought out
by young women from throughout the country who are
searching for an excellent college education in a genuine
Torah setting.

Our Bressler School of Advanced Hebrew Studies and our
Kanter School of Liberal Arts and Sciences enable our
students to pursue an accredited Bachelor of Arts degree.
Our majors currently are in Accounting, Business,
Education, English, Health Sciences, Speech and
Communication Disorders and Psychology and we are
working hard to add new majors and programs. Rabbi Dr.
Zev Eleff is bringing innovative ideas to our college
program, such as setting up our students with summer
internships and bringing in successful businessmen and
professionals to present Entrepreneur Workshops to our
students.

Our enormous success is owed largely to our outstanding
Rabbeim and faculty, led by our warm and dynamic Rosh
HaYeshiva, Rabbi Avraham Friedman, , all of whom
give unstintingly of themselves. Their students are truly
blessed to have such exemplary role models.

I thank all those who have worked to make tonight’s dinner
a success and a fitting tribute to our our Marbitz Torah and
Master Educator Awardee, Rabbi Michael Myers, our Eishes
Chayil Awardee, Mrs. Naomi Samber and our Distinguished
Alumnus Awardee, Rabbi Yeshaya Zimmerman.

May HaKadosh Baruch Hu bless each of them and their
families for their commitment and dedication to our Yeshiva
and to the larger Jewish community and grant us the merit to
see Hebrew Theological College, a
Member of the Touro College and University System,
continue to grow .

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HEBREW THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE

ADMINISTRATION

Rabbi Avraham Friedman Rabbi Shmuel Leib Schuman

Rosh HaYeshiva Chief Executive Officer

Rabbi Sender Kutner Mrs. Cheryl Karp
Vice-President for Administration Chief of Staff

ROSHEI YESHIVA

Rabbi Binyamin Olstein Rabbi Chaim Twerski

Rabbi Yaakov Sussman Rabbi Zvi Zimmerman

Rabbi Levi Sheinfeld

Rosh Chabura - Kollel

ACADEMIC DEANS AND OFFICERS

Rabbi Dr. Zev Eleff Rabbi Zvi Zimmerman

Chief Academic Officer Mashgiach Ruchani
Dean, Men’s Division Dr. Esther M. Shkop

Rabbi Binyamin Olstein Dean, TI

Menahel Ruchani, TI Mrs. Rita Lipshitz

Assistant Dean, TI

RABBI OSCAR Z. FASMAN YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL

Rabbi Moshe Wender Rabbi Mordechai Ginsparg
Principal Assistant Principal, Director of Student Affairs

Mr. Peter Gobel Rabbi Aharon Gaffen
Associate Principal, General Studies Assistant to the Principal

ROSHEI MESIVTA – TALMUD FACULTY

Rabbi Aharon Cardash Rabbi Ben-Zion Rand
Rabbi Moshe Schecter Rabbi Shmuel Leib Schuman
Rabbi Tsvi Haskell
Rabbi Yirmiyahu Neuman Rabbi Meir Segal
Rabbi Yosef Polstein Rabbi Boruch Weinberg
Rabbi Avrohom Gaffen
Rabbi Shmuel Weiss

MAX BRESSLER SCHOOL OF ADVANCED HEBREW STUDIES

WILLIAM AND LILLIAN KANTER SCHOOL OF
LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES

FACULTY
Ms. Debra Andruk ............................................... Instructor of Education
Dr. Richard Aronoff .............................. Chairman, Dept. of Psychology,

Professor of Psychology
Dr. Edward Bahnson...................Assistant Professor of Natural Sciences
Ms. Esther Berland ........................................................... Head Librarian

Coordinator Clinical Experiences, TI
Instructor of English

Dr. Rhonda Brown...............................................Chair, Health Sciences;
Professor of Natural Sciences

Mrs. Elana Berman ...................................................Instructor of History
Ms. Sarah Burnstein ............................................. Assistant Librarian, TI
Ms. Victoria Chudy ...................................Instructor of Natural Sciences
Mrs. Shoshanah Cohen .............................Lab Instructor of Mathematics
Rabbi Tzvi Cohen.............................................. Instructor of Accounting
Mrs. Sheryl Covitt ......................Assistant Professor, Dept. of Education
Dr. Assaf Dvorkin.......................Assistant Professor of Natural Sciences
Mrs. Devri Ehrlich....................................................Instructor of History
Dr. Malkie Eisenberg................................... Chairman, Dept. of English,

Professor of English
Rabbi Dr. Zev Eleff ........................................Dean, Professor of History
............................................................................ Chief Academic Officer
Dr. Norman Eliaser..........Assistant Professor of English & Mathematics
Dr. Shana Erenberg...................................Chairman, Dept. of Education,

Professor of Education
Rabbi Azriel Feifel .................................... Chairman, Dept. of Business,

Assistant Professor of Business
Dr. Augusta Fernando............ Instructor of Natural Sciences and Speech
Mrs. Susan Feuer .................................. Assistant Professor of Education
Mrs. Ilana Dvorin Friedman ................................ Instructor of Education
Rabbi Aharon Gaffen.....................................................Judaica Librarian
Mrs. Sharon Gertz..................................... Assistant Professor of English
Mrs. Devorah Goldberg .................................. Instructor of Mathematics

Mr. Mel Greengus......................................Instructor of Natural Sciences
Rabbi Reuven Gross ...........................Associate Professor of Philosophy
Mrs. Rena Grosser .........................................................Instructor of Arts
Mr. Jeffrey Heilbrunn ............................................ Instructor of Business
Mr. Stuart Hellman ................................................ Instructor of Business
Rabbi Dr. Avraham Isenberg................................... Professor of Hebrew
Rabbi Dr. Jerold Isenberg...........Professor of Mathematics and Business
Rabbi Dov Karoll...............................................Instructor of Jewish Law
Mr. Jonathan Keller ...................................Instructor of Natural Sciences
Mr. Evangelos Kobotis .....................Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Dr. Elaine Koffman ......Associate Professor of Education & Psychology
Mrs. Alexandra Krueger ......................... Assistant Professor of Business
Rabbi Shmuel Kurtz ...........................Associate Professor of Philosophy
Rabbi BenZion Lazovsky ................................ Instructor of Mathematics
Rabbi Dr. Abraham Lipshitz ........Lehrfield Professor of Jewish Studies,

Professor of Bible and Hebrew
Mrs. Rita Lipshitz .................................... Associate Professor of English
Dr. Andrew Mantelman..................................... Instructor of Psychology
Mrs. Faye Meyers .............................................. Instructor of Accounting
Rabbi Avrohom Moller ............................................Instructor of History
Mr. Dennis Murray ............................................ Instructor of Accounting
Rabbi Michael A. Myers .... Associate Professor of History & Education
Rabbi Binyamin Olstein .......................... Professor of Bible and Hebrew
Mrs. Sarit Olstein.....................................Instructor of Bible and Hebrew
Mr. David Passman................. Instructor of English & Political Sciences
Mrs. Shoshana Rifkind ...................................... Instructor of Psychology
Mrs. Jessica Weintraub Robinson ..................... Instructor of Accounting
Rabbi Shlomo Rosen ................................................Instructor of History
Mrs. Renee Rosenberg.............................. Assistant Instructor of Speech
Dr. Shira Frost Roth.............................. Assistant Professor of Education
Mrs. Dinah Rubinoff................................. Assistant Professor of English
Dr. Sharon Rukin............................... Associate Professor of Psychology
Mr. Baruch Schur ........................................ Instructor of Education Law
Dr. Esther M. Shkop .......................................... Dean; Professor of Bible
Dr. Connie Simons .............................................. Instructor of Education
Mrs. Rena Spiegel...Chair, Dept. of Speech &Communication Disorders
.................................................................................. Instructor of Speech
Mrs. Kerri Stelzer .................................................. Instructor of Business
Rabbi Yaakov Sussman ......................Associate Professor of Philosophy

Mrs. Tema Taxer ............................................... Instructor of Accounting
Mrs. Nechama Turk.......Instructor of Computer & Information Sciences
Mr. Michael Verderame ......................... Instructor of English & History
Rabbi Seymour Wechsler ...................... Chairman, Dept. of Accounting,
Rabbi Shmuel Weiss........................................ Instructor of Mathematics
Dr. Megan Worthington ........................................... Instructor of Speech
Dr. Elizabeth Yellen ................................ Associate Professor of English
Rabbi Dr. Hertzel Yitzhak .......................Professor of Bible, Jewish Law

and Psychology
Mrs. Kochava Yitzhak................................................. Instructor of Bible
Mr. Joseph Younes .................................................. Instructor of English
Mrs. Alissa Tanzar Zeffren.......................................Instructor of History
Rabbi Zvi Zimmerman .......................Assistant Professor of Jewish Law

Hebrew Theological College 

Ninety Fourth Anniversary Banquet

Banquet Chairmen

David and Gayle Aronin Shabsai and Debby Wolfe

Banquet Committee

Jeremy and Rebecca Amster Robert W. and Lee Matanky
Dr. Jeffrey and Myrna Buckman Alan and Sharon Matten
Rabbi Aaron and Debra Cardash Rabbi Eliyahu and Devorah Millen
Alan and Leah Cohen Steve and Malka Miretzky
Dr. Howard Farkas and Debra Crystal Sherwin and Janice Mishkin
Rabbi Noson and Elana Dubovick David and Jenny Nadoff
David and Iera Etzman Rabbi Bernard and Miriam Neuman
Rabbi Larry and Elizabeth Feder Michael and Dvora Nussbaum
Rabbi Edward and Sara Garsek David and Rochie Porush
Rabbi Reuven and Pearl Gross Micha and Amy Rose
Rabbi Joel and Fran Gutstein Rabbi Eliezer and Ahuva Samber
Mark and Penina Hartman Martin and Esther Samber
Robert and Debbie Hartman Steven and Bobbie Schayer
Moshe and Shoshana Kahn Zvi and Esti Schayer
Dr. Stephen and Cheryl Karesh Rabbi Sam and Mimi Seleski
Jordan and Sue Klein Abe and Miri Sova
Aveeshi and Tami Lev Dr. Yakov and Jona Weil
Brian and Michelle Levinson Lenny and Jessica Weiss
Yaacov and Esther Mashiach
Rabbi Leonard and Margaret Matanky

























































Our imaginative chairwomen continue to inspire us with new and
interesting topics.

Tami Schultz, President, and the Board and members of Yeshiva
Women are dedicated in their efforts to educate our students and
insure the future of Judaism. We work to raise the funds
necessary to achieve this goal. The Oscar Z. Fasman Yeshiva
High School, the William and Lillian Kanter School of Liberal
Arts and Sciences, the Beis Midrash and Kollel programs and the
Anne M. Blitstein Teachers Institute for Women all benefit from
our efforts.

Yeshiva Women encourages everyone to join with us in
supporting Hebrew Theological College. You are invited to
attend our meetings and conclaves and to help in the planning of
our activities.

May Hashem grant us His blessings as we go m’chayil el’chayil
in our work on behalf of Hebrew Theological College.

“The Torah is a Tree of Life to those who take
hold of it, and happy are those who support it.”

This Special “Etz Chaim” Section is devoted to
those supporters who have demonstrated their
desire to assist the Yeshiva in its efforts to rededicate
our facilities and perpetuate “Yiddishkeit”.