BET EL YESHIVA CENTER
Eugen Gluck Pays Tribute
To Supporters of Learning
IT
was a night of tribute to several individuals who have been crucial in the
support of educational institutions at Bet El, a religious town in
Samaria, north of Jerusalem. Eugen Gluck, who has devoted
his life to the upbuilding of the yeshiva center there, presided over the
18th annual dinner of the American Friends of Bet El Yeshiva
Center, held at the Marriott Marquis in Manhattan.
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky and
wife Karen were the guests of honor. He is the spiritual leader of
Congregation Bnai Yeshurun in Teaneck, N.J. He is a board member of Pro
Israel and the One Israel Fund. He also serves as the American spokesman
for the International Rabbinic Coalition for Israel. Karen is a
speech-language pathologist.
The Keter Torah Award was
presented to Rabbi Elyahu Ben Haim and his wife Edna. A
native of Jerusalem, Ben-Haim was recognized as a brilliant student and
received ordination at age 17.
As a reserve soldier in Gen. Ariel
Sharon’s division in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, he participated in the
crossing of the Suez Canal.
He is the rabbinic leader of
Congregation Shaare Torah in Kew Gardens, Queens. He also serves as rosh
yeshiva of the Department of Sephardic Studies at Yeshivat Rabbeinu
Yitzhak Elchanan of Yeshiva University.
David Romanoff
and wife Syndi received the Shomer Bet El Award. He established a
software firm in Elizabeth, N.J. where he and his wife raised eight
children. He serves on the boards of the town’s Jewish Educational
Center and the YM-YWHA of Union County.
Mrs.
Bonny Silver, the recipient of the Aishet Chayil Award, is well
known in the Toronto for her charitable work in Jewish education and bikur
cholim (tending to the needs of the sick).
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