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MARCH 17, 2016 | The Jewish Home
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An Evening of Connection at the Adelphia Yeshiva 45th Annual Awards Dinner
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L-R: Rabbi Eli Fishman and his sons, Mr. Akiva Fishman, Rabbi Yossi Fishman, Rabbi Yechiel Fishman, being presented with the Rabbinical Founders Award by Rabbi Yeruchim Shain and Rabbi Moshe Shain
Rosh Yeshiva. The Fishman family was introduced by Doniel Fishman, son of R’ Yechiel Fishman, a current talmid in BMG, who presented the awards to
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his year’s 45th Annual Awards Dinner of Adelphia Yeshiva, which took place Sunday, March 6 at Woodlake Country Club in Lakewood, NJ, had an extra special flavor. While all the Yeshiva dinners resemble a family reunion, as talmidim, friends and supporters of the yeshiva gather annually to meet and greet friends and Rebbeim, this year’s dinner provided something special in its warmth and significance. The emotional highlight of the Dinner was the Rabbinical Founders Award presented to Rabbi Eli Fishman and his family. A special painting of Rabbi Fishman and others learning Torah upon liberation from the death camps still in concentration camp uniforms was presented to Rabbi Fishman. A longtime friend of the yeshiva from his days as rabbi of Freehold, NJ, Rabbi Fishman’s three sons all learned in the yeshiva and have maintained their kesher with the yeshiva and with Rav Yeruchim Shain, the
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his father, grandfather and uncles. He poignantly recounted his grandfather’s amazing life – from his youth in Poland as a young bochur in Yeshivas Chachmei Lubin through his trying ordeals during the Holocaust and his years of amazing devotion to the Rabbinate in Freehold, NJ, and building of his beautiful mishpacha with his wife, Eileen. Their daughter, Rebecca Silberstein, received the Aishes Chayil award. The far-reaching impact of the Fishman family was expressed by the many friends, family who attended the dinner in honor of the family. Also attending was a prestigious group of yungeleit from Lakewood (who are supported by Rabbi Yechiel
Fishman’s Daf Yomi Kollel) to show their support for the honorees. In his remarks, Rav Yeruchim Shain proudly expressed the Adelphia credo of “once a talmid, always a talmid,” how the Yeshiva proudly looks after each and every bochur that is privileged to enter the yeshiva. Each bochur is dealt with as an individual, as the yeshiva provides him with the personal tools to grow and succeed in this most ever fastpaced and rapidly-changing world. Thus, wherever he goes, and whichever path of life his hashgacha takes, he always knows what’s demanded of him at that time and continues to grow as he forges ahead in life.