Announcements #017

Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School and Lincoln Square Synagogue invite the entire community to the seventh annual Community Yom Iyun on December 25, 2007 on the topic of "The Shemitta Year and Us Today".

The program will take place at Lincoln Square Synagogue (200 Amsterdam Ave. corner of 69th street) from 9:30 AM-12:30 PM.

Speakers will include Rabbi Harel Gordin, Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot, Rabbi Dov Linzer, Rabbi Ysoscher Katz and Rabbi Shaul Robinson. The program is free and open to the public. For more information please go to www.yctorah.org.

The Commentator is honored to announce its forthcoming publication of Mentor of Generations: Reflections on the Life of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, based on the many articles that appeared in The Commentator during 2006 and 2007. Many new articles, appearing for the first time, are also included. The volume edited by Zev Eleff includes an Introduction by Yeshiva Chancellor Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm.

This 349 page volume, with over 50 contributors, hardbound, lists at $29.50 and will be available at bookstores in January. You can order the volume online here and receive a 20% discount ($23.60) including free delivery (provided your order is received prior to December 31, 2007). As of January 1, 2008, the shipping cost is $5.

We know you will find the pages in this collection enriching and as a valuable resource in understanding a giant who shaped the course of Yeshiva University and Orthodoxy in America and Israel for generations to come.

New issue of The Commentator:

• Admissions Revving Up For Record Push
• Electrical Scare Evacuates Zysman and Muss Halls
• Hanukkah Dinner Honors Tulane President, Remembers Katrina
• YUCIS Progress Report
• Recollections And Reconsideration: Revisiting the Path of Rabbi Norman Lamm
• Yeshiva Introduces New Bekiut Learning Program for Yeshiva High Schools
• New Endowment to Harness Lamm Legacy
• Regret, Rejoinder and Reaffirmation - Zev Eleff regrets editorial against IBC
• IBC Redux - Immanuel Shalev disagrees with the editorial against IBC
• Letters to the Editor - Many letters about Young Israel
• Yeshiva in Academic Literature - bibliography of discussion about YU in academic literature
• Kol Hamevaser
  • An Interview With Rabbi J. David Bleich
  • An Interview With Rabbi Dr. David Berger
  • "Beni Bekhori Yisrael" - Reflections on the Doctrine of Chosenness by Rabbi Shmuel Hain

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