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On May 4, 2016, American attorney Mel Urbach, who devotes his legal practice to helping Holocaust victims recover artifacts stolen during the years of Nazi terror, presented the Yom HaShoah Presidential Lecture on “Recovering Nazi Looted Art: The Last Prisoners of the Shoah” at the Lander College for Men.

As a component engineer at Memry Corporation, Jeremy Bekritsky, LCM ’08, helps create prototypes of components from nickel titanium (nitinol) for medical devices such as heart stents, catheters, and superelastic needles.

“My number one motivation for becoming a high school rebbe was to be there for my students,” begins Rabbi Avi Weber, LCM ‘09, a high school rebbe who teaches at the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway (HAFTR). “I understand a lot of the challenges they’re going through—I mean, I literally sat in these desks when I was in high school not so long ago.”

Born in Strasbourg, a small French city on the eastern border of Germany, Jacob (Yaakov) Bouskila knew it was only a matter of time before he would emigrate from France.

The first thing that struck LCM senior Michael Sher, when he moved to Canada, was the absence of concrete walls and electric fences around residential homes.

LCM celebrated a festive Purim this year across campus. LCM Rebbeim, their families, Touro College President Alan Kadish, and Executive Vice President Rabbi Moshe Krupka graced this year's Purim Chagiga, getting into the dancing groove with the students. Purim Costume contest winners were Yaakov Burack, Michael Sher, and Netanel Lederer, who dressed as the Lander College for Men cleaning crew, while Mendy Eisenberg and Asi Kent came in second place. Like they do annually, a fundraising group went out to collect tzedaka for the yeshiva on Purim night, while more than sixty students spent Purim morning learning for several hours as part of the Yeshivas Mordechai Hatzadik program.

Contrary to other countries in Europe, the Jewish community in Austria is steadily growing—“not fast,” qualifies soft-spoken Vienna native David Borochov, “taking its time, but growing.”

There are only ten shomer-shabbos families in Bulgaria, and Shmuel Yudelzon’s family is one of them. (“Three of the other families,” he adds with a smile, “are kiruv rabbis from outside of Bulgaria.”) 

New York, N.Y.– More than 100 former students returned to their alma mater for the sixth annual Lander College for Men (LCM) Alumni Shabbaton.

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The dancing was spirited, and “the joy and exuberance in the room was simply electric,” said R’ Bamberger. “All of the Torah and friendship seamlessly merged into one as the Rebbeim and talmidim sang and danced together.” The Carlos and Gabby’s dinner reminded us of the miracle of oil, of course.