DR. BERNARD HELLER PRIZE
Edgar M. Bronfman
President, World Jewish Congress
“
While I’m certainly not a Talmudist, I have a deep pride in
being Jewish. That is what we must require of all our people, to
study enough so that they know enough to be proud Jews. I’d
like for all Jews to be as proud of their Judaism as I am of mine.
I’m charging you as rabbis who are going to be leading congrega-
tions, you must find a way to bring joy into Judaism, you must
find a way to attract young people. We have to make the syna-
gogue the center of Jewish life once again.”
2003
ISSUE 62
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ROGER E. JOSEPH PRIZE
Graduation/Ordination/Investiture 2003
The Rabbinical Class of 2003, HUC-JIR/Los Angeles
The Rabbinical Class of 2003, HUC-JIR/New York at Congregation Emanu-El
The Cantorial Class of 2003, HUC-JIR/New York
The Rabbinical Class of
2003,
HUC-JIR/Cincinnati
outside Plum Street Temple
following Ordination
Professor Judea Pearl
(
center), father of
Daniel Pearl, z”l
,
accepted
The Joseph Prize
posthumously on behalf of his son and
The Daniel Pearl Foundation. He remarked, “History recalls another
Jewish person whose face and tragic end personified the horrors of an
era – Anne Frank. Paralleling the story of Anne Frank in the early
1950
s, the drama of Daniel Pearl now inspires Jews and non-Jews
alike to reflect on the anatomy of hatred and the consequences of anti-
Semitism and to stand up for tolerance and understanding everywhere.”
He is pictured with (from left) Rabbi David Ellenson, Burton Lehman,
Chair, HUC-JIR Board of Governors, and Joseph Family members
Burton Joseph, Linda Karshan, Ellen Joseph, and Roxanne Leopold.
Cincinnati, May 29, 2003
A group blessing on the newly ordained rabbis at the
Wilshire Boulevard Temple, Los Angeles