2008 Woodie Awards
2008 Commencement to Recognize ADL Director and UMichigan Scholar
Michal Golan
Issue date: 5/13/08 Section: News
On May 22, Yeshiva University (YU) will celebrate its 77th annual Commencement. Unlike last year's ceremony, which took place at Radio City Music Hall, this year's graduation will occur in the WaMu Theater in Madison Square Garden.
This year, YU has selected only two individuals to receive the Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, a prestigious award granted to those with impressive accomplishments, whose efforts have been geared toward changing the world in some way. The two degree recipients, Mr. Abraham Foxman and Dr. Edie N. Goldenberg, will address the students of YU as part of the graduation ceremony.
Foxman began working for the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in 1965, and became the national director in 1987, a position he has maintained ever since. According to the ADL's mission statement, it was founded in 1913 by B'nai Brith as an attempt to halt the denigration of Jews, and to fight for equality and justice. During his career at the ADL, Foxman has headed numerous efforts to end bigotry and discrimination toward the Jewish community, as well as protecting civil rights for all people. His published works include "Never Again? The Threat of the New Anti-Semitism" and "The Deadliest Lies: The Israel Lobby and the Myth of Jewish Control, published in 2003 and 2007, respectively.
The ADL director, born in Poland in 1940, survived the Holocaust and immigrated to the United States in 1950. After attending the Yeshiva of Flatbush, he went on to obtain a bachelor's degree in political science from City College of the City University of New York, and from there proceeded to New York University School of Law, as well as to the Jewish Theological Seminary.
According to Georgia Pollak, vice president for Communications and Public Affairs at YU, Foxman was selected as an Honorary Degree Recipient for being "an internationally recognized figure who is a great articulator of the Jewish condition and defender of the right of the Jewish people to be a people." "He's also a man of very strong Jewish values who speaks out for his sense of those values," she added.
This year, YU has selected only two individuals to receive the Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, a prestigious award granted to those with impressive accomplishments, whose efforts have been geared toward changing the world in some way. The two degree recipients, Mr. Abraham Foxman and Dr. Edie N. Goldenberg, will address the students of YU as part of the graduation ceremony.
Foxman began working for the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in 1965, and became the national director in 1987, a position he has maintained ever since. According to the ADL's mission statement, it was founded in 1913 by B'nai Brith as an attempt to halt the denigration of Jews, and to fight for equality and justice. During his career at the ADL, Foxman has headed numerous efforts to end bigotry and discrimination toward the Jewish community, as well as protecting civil rights for all people. His published works include "Never Again? The Threat of the New Anti-Semitism" and "The Deadliest Lies: The Israel Lobby and the Myth of Jewish Control, published in 2003 and 2007, respectively.
The ADL director, born in Poland in 1940, survived the Holocaust and immigrated to the United States in 1950. After attending the Yeshiva of Flatbush, he went on to obtain a bachelor's degree in political science from City College of the City University of New York, and from there proceeded to New York University School of Law, as well as to the Jewish Theological Seminary.
According to Georgia Pollak, vice president for Communications and Public Affairs at YU, Foxman was selected as an Honorary Degree Recipient for being "an internationally recognized figure who is a great articulator of the Jewish condition and defender of the right of the Jewish people to be a people." "He's also a man of very strong Jewish values who speaks out for his sense of those values," she added.
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