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third generation of the Burg family to attend MTA. Rachel is a general studies teacher at Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey and is involved in many Bergen County communal activities. Rabbi Burg is the Eastern Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Museum of Tolerance and serves on many nonprofit boards, including the United Federation of Teachers. Aleeza and Avi Lauer have been active lay leaders in their hometown of Woodmere, New York, for many years, including leadership roles at the Young Israel of Woodmere and the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway (HAFTR). Avi currently serves as the vice president for legal affairs, secretary and general counsel of Yeshiva University and Aleeza is an educator at HAFTR. Both Aleeza and Avi are graduates of Yeshiva University schools and they are the proud parents
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine Joint Summer Research Program and is a member of the Educational Steering Committee for the March of Dimes Nelson Rosenthal Convocation. In the summer of 2008, Fried was selected to attend the third Sheila Schwartz Family International Leading Science Teacher Seminar at the Davidson Institute of Science Education at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. She Rabbi Al Cohen received certification to implement both the Davidson Institute and the British Neufield Foundation Science Literacy Program (LSS – Learning Skills for Science). Fried was a recipient of the $10,000 Toyota Tapestry Grant from the National SciAleeza and Avi Lauer ence Teachers Association. She lives in ty High School for Girls (Central), and Woodmere with her husband, Sholom, Rabbi Alfred Cohen, longtime maggid and their children, and they are memshiur at the Marsha Stern Talmudical bers of Congregation Aish Kodesh. Academy/Yeshiva University High Their three daughters are all proud to School for Boys (MTA), who will be be Central graduates (the youngest in retiring at the end of this year. Rabbi 2015). Steven and Rachel Burg are Rabbi Alfred Cohen, MTA’s guests of honor, and maggid shiur at MTA, Avi and Aleeza Lauer are Cenreceived semicha from tral’s. Rabbi Yisrael Gustman The dinner will also honand from Rabbi Hutner or the 25th anniversary of the of Mesivta Rabbi Chaim graduating class of 1990 at Berlin and served for both MTA and Central. many years as the mora “The ability to nurture d’asra [leader of the conthe love of science in Jewish gregation] of the Young young women over the past Israel of Canarsie. For twenty five years has been a Mrs. Russi Fried the past 21 years, he has privilege,” said Fried, who is been the Rabbi of Concelebrating her 25th year at Central, gregation Ohaiv Yisroel of Blueberry where she teaches regents biology and Hill in Monsey, New York. He is the advanced placement biology. “As we founder and was the first editor of the study science together my students Journal of Halacha and Contemporary have opened their eyes to the mastery Society and has published numerous arof G-d’s world and to the realization ticles in the journal, as well as in Tradithat the study of science is an integral tion and Jewish Life. Rabbi Cohen has part of the study of Torah. This hon- received many citations and awards for or presents me with the opportunity excellence in teaching, including the to say thank you to the parents who Rabbi and Mrs. Joseph Baumol Award have entrusted their daughters’ science for Excellence in Jewish Education at education to me, to the faculty who Yeshiva University and the Avi Chai have been my colleagues, mentors and Foundation Award for Outstanding friends, and who have educated my Jewish Education. own three daughters and to the adminRabbi Steven and Rachel Burg, istration who has always supported all of Bergenfield, New Jersey, are the of our science programming.” proud parents of two current students Fried also serves as the liaison to in MTA: Aryeh, a senior, and Elie, a the Yeshiva University High Schools/ freshman. Their children represent the
Yeshiva University High Schools (YUHS) will host their Annual Dinner on Tuesday, May 12 at the Marina Del Rey in the Bronx, New York. Faculty honorees include Mrs. Ruth Fried, chairperson of the science department and director of the Science Institute at the Samuel H. Wang Yeshiva Universi-
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of Jennifer and Josh Geffner, David (a sophomore at the Sy Syms School of Business), Ashley (a senior at Central) and Eli. For dinner reservations, to place an ad in the journal or for more information, please contact Beth R. Gorin, director of institutional advancement for YU High Schools at 212-960-5489 or beth.gorin@yu.edu, or visit www. yu.edu/hsdinner.