On the Calendar

Posted Thursday, December 20, 2012 12:00 am

White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew received an honorary degree and delivered the keynote address at Yeshiva University’s 88th Annual Hanukkah Convocation and Dinner on Sunday, December 16. Honorary degrees were also conferred upon management consulting and investment banking executive Stanley Raskas; Moises Safra, a philanthropist and accomplished financier; and Holocaust survivor Diane Wasser. In addition, the public phase of YU’s capital campaign, “Mandate to Matter,” was announced at the dinner. To date the campaign has already raised nearly $800 million of its $1 billion goal during its quiet phase, enabling YU to increase financial assistance to deserving students, strengthen its faculty, research and academic programs, enhance the quality of student life, campus infrastructure, and community outreach. At the dinner, YU Trustee Ira Mitzner said that the campaign would expand to include an additional $400 million for undergraduate scholarships.

Dec 21–22

Lawrence

Congregation Beth

Sholom

Scholar in Residence

Rabbi Benjamin Blech

Internationally recognized educator,

religious leader, author & lecturer.

Talmud professor at Yeshiva University &

Rabbi Emeritus of Young Israel of Oceanside.

7:45 p.m. Friday night Oneg at Congregation Beth Sholom: “The Sistine Secrets:

Michelangelo’s Forbidden Messages”

Shabbat AM: Drasha

4:15PM: “Confronting the Ultimate Crisis:

A Rabbi’s Response”

Congregation Beth Sholom is located at 390 Broadway

Lawrence, New York 11559

Dec 30

Lawrence

Congregation Beth

Sholom

Guest Speaker and Breakfast

Elana Stein Hain

Community Scholar, Lincoln Square Synagogue.

Adjunct Professor at NYU & has served on the

Wexner Institute Faculty.

Currently completing her doctorate in religion at Columbia University.

“Honoring Parents: (Re)reading the Ten Commandments”