December 1, 2000
Honoring
the Past, the Present and the Future
New York Resident To Be Inducted into the
OU’s Ben Zakkai Honor Society
The Orthodox Union is
pleased to honor long-time affiliate of the Orthodox Union’s (OU) National
Conference of Synagogue Youth (NSCY), Samuel Lawrence Brennglass,
with the Enid & Harold H. Boxer Memorial Award at the annual Ben
Zakkai Honor Society Dinner, Sunday, December 10, in Manhattan.
Forty-six
years ago, at an historic Orthodox Union convention in Atlantic City,
Harold M. Boxer convinced a highly skeptical Orthodox Union leadership
to charter a synagogue youth movement, to be known as the National
Conference of Synagogue Youth. Several
of the younger officers argued strenuously on behalf of this new
undertaking, but none with more passion than the distinguished lawyer, Samuel
Brennglass.
Ever
since that November, in 1954, Mr. Brennglass has been a champion of NCSY
and a devoted mentor to generations of NCSY leaders.
He and his beloved late wife of 57 years, Theresa, always went
out of their way to cultivate NCSY’s young leaders.
Samuel
is an honor graduate of the Columbia University School of Law.
He served as law secretary to Judge (shortly afterwards Chief
Judge) Irving Lehman (of the New York Court of Appeals) and was the
first Orthodox Jew to become a member of the House of Delegates of the
New York State Bar Association and the New York County Lawyers
Association, on whose Ethics Committee he served for many years. He is the author of many articles in legal papers and
journals.
It
is now 62 years since Samuel Lawrence Brennglass joined the Board of
Directors of
the Orthodox Union. An
officer since the 1990's, he received the coveted Keter Shem Tov Award
in 1971 and, since 1978 has been Honorary Chairman of the Board of
Directors.
The
OU honors Enid
& Harold Boxer’s historic
legacy by bestowing the award that bears their name on this exceptional
man who has kept alive the very standards and dreams that its namesake
exemplified to all NCSYers.
OU President Mandell I.
Ganchrow, M.D., explained, “For the past sixty years, Samuel
Brennglass has demonstrated tireless dedication to the youth of NCSY and
has provided a supreme example of Torah scholarship while instilling in
countless NCSY teenagers a deep love and enthusiasm for Judaism.”
Since it was founded in
1954, NCSY has pioneered the
Jewish outreach movement and today is the world’s largest Jewish youth
program. With chapters in
39 states, 215 communities across the nation and 3 Canadian provinces,
NCSY reaches 40,000 boys and girls annually by offering 750 major
educational events and programs and 10 summer camps – in the U.S.,
Israel and the Ukraine.
When the Ben Zakkai
Honor Society was created in 1965, its mandate was to honor those
exceptional men and women who “have demonstrated personal Torah growth
and the promise of future meaningful service to the Jewish people and
the Orthodox community.” Samuel
Brennglass has lived up to that mandate and epitomizes those very
qualities.
The
Orthodox Union, now in its second century of service to the Jewish
community of America and beyond, is the world leader in youth
work,
advocacy for the disabled, synagogue
services, adult education and
political action. Its kosher
supervision label, the
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is the world’s most recognized kosher symbol and can be found on over
250,000 products in 68 countries around the globe.
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