HEBREW UNION COLLEGE - JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION
The Academic, Spiritual and Professional Development Center for Reform Judaism

ORDINATIONS & GRADUATIONS - 1998

Cincinnati	New York	Los Angeles
Ordination, June 6	Ordination, May 17
Graduation, June 3	Graduation, May 14	Graduation, May 11

CINCINNATI
Ordination -- 6 June 1998 / 12 Sivan 5758

Ordained as Rabbi
Lawrence Alan Bach
Brian Keith Beal
James Moss Brandt
John Louis Bush
Javier Eduardo Cattapan
Kenneth Mark Chasen
Barry Leland Cohen
Heidi Michelle Cohen
Lisa Sari Dushkin
Andrea Rachel Fisher
Allison Beth Flash
Brenner Joseph Glickman
Elaine Rose Glickman
Andrea Michelle Goldstein
Deborah Sue Kaiz
Michael Aaron Mellen
Joel Myles Mosbacher
Howard Ira Needleman
Jacqueline Ninio
Steven Hayim Rau
Jon Avram Sommer
Yael Sabath Splansky
Mark David Strauss-Cohn
Jonathan Aaron Tabachnikoff
Mira Beth Wasserman

Ordination Address
Dr. Susan Einbinder
Associate Professor of Hebrew Literature

CINCINNATI
Graduation -- 3 June 1998 / 9 Sivan 5758

Doctor of Philosophy
Edward Jacob Sandon Boraz
Jan Gallagher
Richard M. Hedrick, Jr.
Hendrik Gert Platt
Douglas William Redford

Master of Philosophy in Hebraic and Cognate Studies
David Roy Berge
Sara Jane Fudge
Robert Mark Michael Gerth
Sekwon Kim
David M. Maas
Joshua Lloyd Moss
Donald Charles Ross
Timothy LeRoy Undheim
Daniel Rodney Watson
Manya Marie White

Master of Arts
Erik W. Nelson

Master of Arts in Hebrew Letters
Alexis Deborah Berk
Brian Keith Beal
B. Allison Bergman
Jonathan Edward Blake
Shawna Elise Bynjegard-Bialik
John Louis Bush
Laurie Cohen
Lori Cohen
Franklin Adam DeWoskin
Anthony B. Fratello
Ilana Michelle Greenfield
Shari Lynne Heinrich
Thomas Stephan Heyn
Deborah Sue Kaiz
Alison Beth Kobey
Elissa Miriam Kohen
Jamie Samisch Korngold
Audrey Rhona Korotkin
Deborah L. Levine
Laura Suzanne Lieber
Melinda Michelle Mersack
Joseph Benjamin Meszler
Howard Ira Needleman
Jacqueline Ninio
Erin Polansky
Joseph William Prass
Roxanne J. Schneider
Beth Lyn Schwartz
Judith Hannah Spicehandler
Jonathan Aaron Tabachnikoff
Todd Michael Thalblum
Joanna Tract
Howard Voss Altman
Mira Beth Wasserman

Doctor of Human Letters, honoris causa
Dr. James O. Freedman

President, Dartmouth College
Dr. Bernard Jackson

Alliance Professor of Modern Jewish Studies,

University of Manchester, England
Dr. Frank E. Manuel

Kenan Professor Emeritus at New York University;

Alfred and Viola Hart University Professor Emeritus at Brandeis University
Sister Francis Marie Thrailkill, O.S.U.

President, College of Mount St. Joseph, Cincinnati

1998 Dr. Bernard Heller Prize
Count Folke Bernadotte, posthumously

Statesman and President of the Swedish Red Cross and

United Nations Mediator

Graduation Address

Dr. Alfred Gottschalk, Chancellor

NEW YORK
Ordination -- May 17, 1998 / 21 Iyar 5758

Ordained as Rabbi
Scott Turberg Aaron
Joel Nathan Abraham
Mona Alfi
Peter Scott Berg
Stacy Sigman Bergman
Joshua L. Caruso
Dennis J. Eisner
Daniel Benjamin Gropper
Boaz David Heilman
Allison Rachelle Henteloff
Marc Daniel Israel
Daniel Allen Judson
Laurie B. Katz
David Michael Kessel
Zoë Grashow Klein
Noa Rachael Kushner
Daniel Albert Lehrman
Peter S. Levi
Sharon Joelle Mars
Jennifer Rebecca Marx
Brian Zachary Mayer
Hara Elizabeth Person
Rochelle Robins
Mark Howard Sameth
Steven Daniel Sirbu
Rachel Ann Rubenstein Smookler
David B. Thomas
Deborah Honey Till
Andrew David Vogel
Josh Davis Zweiback

Invested as Cantor
Chanin Michele Becker
Andrew Jay Bernard
Jennifer Gail Blum
Gabrielle Jochnowitz Clissold
Geoffrey Bruce Fine
Yelena Gurin-Cohen
David Aaron Katz
Jessica Lynn Levitt
Ilana Silberstein Wolpert
Oksana Yakhkind
Sarah Anne Zemel

1998 Roger E. Joseph Prize
Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture, Dr. Allan Keller, Director
The Center for Victims of Torture, Douglas A. Johnson, Executive Director

Ordination and Investiture Address
Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman, President

NEW YORK
Graduation -- May 14, 1998 / 19 Iyar 5758

Master of Arts in Hebrew Literature
David Eli Adelson
Victor Seth Appell
Valerie Cohen
Andrew Soloman Davids
Anne Alicia Ebersman
Kim Sara Geringer
Jennifer Elyse Krause
Edythe Held Mencher
Ellie Lynn Miller
Gary Edward Pokras
Felicia Lauren Sol
Jessica Spitalnic
Peter William Stein
Roderick Young
Julie Anne Zupan

Master of Sacred Music
Chanin Michele Becker
Andrew Jay Bernard
Jennifer Gail Blum
Gabrielle Jochnowitz Clissold
Geoffrey Bruce Fine
Yelena Gurin-Cohen
David Aaron Katz
Jessica Lynn Levitt
Ilana Silberstein Wolpert
Oksana Yakhkind
Sarah Anne Zemel

Master of Arts in Judaic Studies
Alan Appelbaum

Doctor of Ministry
Reverend Godfrey Emeka Amanchukwu
Reverend Anthony P. Mullen
Rabbi Harry Daniel Rothstein
Rabbi Howard Freeman Sommer

Doctor of Hebrew Letters
Rabbi Zion Zohar

Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa
Glenda Abramson,

Professor, Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Jacob G. Behrman,

Publisher, Behrman House, Inc.
His Eminence John Cardinal O'Connor,

Archbishop of New York
Vladka Meed,

Chronicler of the Holocaust Resistance
Ben Steinberg,

Composer
Laurence H. Tribe,

Professor, Harvard Law School

Graduation Address
His Eminence John Cardinal O'Connor, Archbishop of New York

LOS ANGELES
Graduation -- 11 May 1998 / 15 Iyar 5758

Master of Arts in Hebrew Letters
Erica Leslie Burech
Michael Scott Churgel
Caryn Michelle Greenberg
Joui Marlo Hessel
Marla Rachel Hornsten
Stephanie Kaplan
Daniel Nathan Treiser
Eve Rudin Weiner
Robert A. Weiner

Joint Master of Arts in Jewish Communal Service and Jewish Education
Betsy Alison Barth
Laura Jane Bramson

Master of Arts in Jewish Communal Service
Audrey Klein Axe
Elizabeth Gordon Bergman
Edward Miles Bruckner
Jennifer Leigh Goldstein
Adam Louis Inlander
Alyson Beth Lan
Danielle Rae Levine

Master of Arts in Jewish Education
Lauren Silverstein Cohn
Vered Lynne Harris
Daniel Jonathan Moskovitz

Doctor of Divinity, honoris causa
Alan L. Berg,

Rabbi, Peninsula Temple Beth El, San Mateo, CA
Wayne D. Dosick, Ph.D.,

Rabbi, The Elijah Minyan
Ned J. Stoltz,

Rabbi, Temple Beth Tikvah of North Orange County

Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa
Dorothy Corwin,

philanthropist and community leader,

HUC-JIR Los Angeles Board of Overseers
Maurice Stanley Friedman, Ph.D.,

Professor Emeritus of Religious Philosophy and Comparative Literature,

San Diego State University

Graduation Address Dr. Steven F. Windmueller,

Director, Irwin Daniels School of Jewish Communal Service,

in honor of the 30^th anniversary of the SJCS.