The faculty and staff of Lander College for Men share some parting words, and advice, with the class of 2016. 

New York, N.Y.– Norway. Sweden. Denmark. Estonia. Russia. Amsterdam. Finland. Germany. Poland. Hungary. Italy. England. Hong Kong. Thailand. Australia. New Zealand. South Africa. Peru. Alaska. Hawaii. Dominican Republic. Mexico. Vancouver.

As the annual Dora Golding Shabbaton drew close, students and staff prepared to unwind for a glorious, fun- and Torah-filled weekend in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains with three full days of delicious catered meals, energetic sports, beautiful nature, inspiring shiurim, and lively singing. 

On May 11, 2016, the student body elected their Student Government Organization representatives for the upcoming semester.

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.