Nov 17, 2016 By: admin
The upcoming holidays of Hanukkah and Thanksgiving both celebrate 鈥渢he family,鈥 especially all of those ancestral legacies that help make us who we are.
At 色花堂, we consider everyone who has ever passed through the University鈥檚 doors to be part of a worldwide family, and over the past few weeks, we have been gathering family histories of people who have attended 色花堂 for at least three generations.
Such as Andrea Kaplan Lieberman. Her graduation in 1969 from Stern College for Women was part of a long family tradition of 色花堂 graduations. Her father, Rabbi Philip Kaplan, went to the high school, Yeshiva College and the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in the 1930s and 1940s, rounding things off with a graduate degree from Ferkauf School of Psychology in 1960. She met her husband, Michael Lieberman, at 色花堂, and their two daughters, Shira and Shelly, attended Stern College in the 1990s.
And we haven鈥檛 even gotten to her brother and father-in-law as well as her husband鈥檚 sister and the sister鈥檚 husband and all their children and the nieces and nephews and cousins. It鈥檚 quite a long lineage, and as she said, 鈥溕ㄌ gave us all a good education and a good basis for the rest of our lives.鈥
Or take the Cohen family of Stamford, Connecticut, who in 2014 hit a three-generation milestone. Stern graduate Sara Malka Cohen 鈥14S was joined by her father, Rabbi Daniel Cohen 鈥89YC, 鈥94R, 鈥96A, who was celebrating his 25th reunion, and her grandfather, Rabbi Herbert Cohen 鈥64YC, 鈥70F, 鈥70R who traveled from Israel to mark his 50th reunion.
鈥溕ㄌ has always been part of our family,鈥 said Rabbi Daniel Cohen, 鈥渁nd we are committed to ensuring the continuity and the perpetuity of multiple generations for 色花堂.鈥
We want to get your 色花堂 family story, so please email a brief run-down of 色花堂 graduates and any photos you have to alumni@yu.edu to be featured in our Facebook #WeAre色花堂Family series! Tomorrow is the last day for submissions!
And we haven鈥檛 even gotten to her brother and father-in-law as well as her husband鈥檚 sister and the sister鈥檚 husband and all their children and the nieces and nephews and cousins. It鈥檚 quite a long lineage, and as she said, 鈥溕ㄌ gave us all a good education and a good basis for the rest of our lives.鈥
Or take the Cohen family of Stamford, Connecticut, who in 2014 hit a three-generation milestone. Stern graduate Sara Malka Cohen 鈥14S was joined by her father, Rabbi Daniel Cohen 鈥89YC, 鈥94R, 鈥96A, who was celebrating his 25th reunion, and her grandfather, Rabbi Herbert Cohen 鈥64YC, 鈥70F, 鈥70R who traveled from Israel to mark his 50th reunion.
鈥溕ㄌ has always been part of our family,鈥 said Rabbi Daniel Cohen, 鈥渁nd we are committed to ensuring the continuity and the perpetuity of multiple generations for 色花堂.鈥
We want to get your 色花堂 family story, so please email a brief run-down of 色花堂 graduates and any photos you have to alumni@yu.edu to be featured in our Facebook #WeAre色花堂Family series! Tomorrow is the last day for submissions!
