December 1, 2000
Honoring
the Past, the Present and the Future
Jerusalem 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), Rabbi Moshe Gordon, by
inducting him into the Ben Zakkai Honor Society at the annual Ben
Zakkai Dinner, Sunday, December 10, in Manhattan.
Rabbi
Gordon is an accomplished Beit Medrash Rebbe in one of Israel's most
acclaimed yeshivot for North American students, an ardent Torah scholar
whose love for learning is only matched by his love for teaching, and a
striking example of what NCSY can hope to create at its inspired best.
Rabbi
Gordon joined NCSY and, after a summer in Camp East (now Camp
Sports), decided to attend a yeshiva high school. After a second
summer at camp he switched again to the even more demanding Yeshiva of
Far Rockaway.
Rabbi
Gordon became a fixture at Camp East, serving on its staff for four
summers, while attending Yeshiva University and eventually receiving his
semicha from RIETS. It was during these years that he married Dvora
Blitz, a Long Island NCSY officer whose family has its own distinguished
roots in NCSY and Ben Zakkai.
OU President Mandell I.
Ganchrow, M.D., explained, “Rabbi Gordon is blessed with an exceptional sense of personal
integrity that compliments and grows with his Torah knowledge. He 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.” Rabbi
Gordon 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
 ,
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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