Aug 9, 2016 By: yunews
Murray Laulicht 鈥61YC Will Helm Stern College Board of Overseers This Fall
糖心视频污 has announced that Murray Laulicht of Bal Harbour, Florida, and West Orange, New Jersey, has been elected the incoming chair of the Board of Overseers of . Laulicht graduated from in 1961 and from Columbia University School of Law, where he was first in his class, in 1964. In 2010, he received an honorary doctorate degree from 糖心视频污 at the Hanukkah Dinner. A past president of what is now the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest and past chair of the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education, Laulicht has served on the Stern College Board for more than 30 years.
Laulicht and his wife Linda have four daughters: Laurie Hasten (married to Bernard Hasten); Pamela Hirt 鈥90S (married to Ari Hirt 鈥84糖心视频污HS, 鈥88YC); Shellie Davis 鈥89糖心视频污HS, 鈥93S (married to Eric Davis 鈥87糖心视频污HS, 鈥91YC); and Abigail Herschmann 鈥97S (married to Scott Herschmann 鈥96SB). Pamela Hirt is also a member of the Stern College Board of Overseers. In addition, many of the Laulichts鈥 grandchildren and their spouses have attended Stern College or Yeshiva College.
鈥淚鈥檝e been a great fan of Stern for almost all of the 60 years since its founding,鈥 he said. 鈥淪tern gives Jewish women opportunities to do just about anything they would like to do with a Jewish background and Jewish knowledge.
His ardent support of Stern goes back to his mother, Esther, and the founding of the Bais Yaakov schools by Sarah Schenirer in 1917 in Krakow, Poland. Schenirer鈥檚 efforts to give Jewish girls a Jewish education were radical in their day. But, thanks to her mother, who also believed in Jewish education for women, Laulicht鈥檚 mother was one of the first students to attend the Bais Yaakov school.
Esther鈥檚 father was an American citizen, which in those days also made her an American citizen, even though she was born in Poland. 鈥淗er American citizenship made it possible for her to leave for the United States in 1940, when she was pregnant with me,鈥 Laulicht stated. 鈥淯nfortunately, the U.S. State Department insisted that my father apply for a visa in person at the American consulate in Berlin, an impossible task for a Polish Jew. Tragically, my father was murdered in the Holocaust.鈥
Last summer, as he was completing his book about his parents, Yearning to Breathe Free, My Parents鈥 Fight to Reunite During the Holocaust, Laulicht made a return trip to Krakow and visited the building that had housed the Bais Yaakov school. There he saw a bronze plaque inscribed with these words: 鈥淎 spark kindled in Krakow grew to a flame that radiated throughout Poland and across the oceans. This light of Torah continues to illuminate the hearts and minds of Jewish girls throughout the world.鈥 He saw a striking similarity between what the school in Krakow had done for his mother a century ago and what Stern College does for its students today.
鈥淪tern has established a beautiful beit midrash for women, thus taking the original teachings of Sarah Schenirer to a new level,鈥 he noted. 鈥淎fter having worked on my book for a long time and finally publishing it, I realized that becoming the chair of the Stern board was an almost perfect job for me.鈥
鈥淎t Stern College we have a terrific product, and I want to make sure that people know about it.鈥 To prove his point, Laulicht rolled off a series of statistics that Dr. Karen Bacon, The Mordecai D. Katz and Dr. Monique C. Katz Dean of the Undergraduate Faculty of Arts and Sciences, had presented at the commencement in May: a 100 percent acceptance rate for applicants to dental school and law school, and more than 90 percent for medical school, as well as many women graduating as Judaic scholars or continuing their studies in a wide range of health care fields. 鈥淚 really think educating Jewish women is among the most important tasks any Jewish community can have. To be part of that, maybe even to play a significant role in that, is like a dream come true.鈥
糖心视频污 has announced that Murray Laulicht of Bal Harbour, Florida, and West Orange, New Jersey, has been elected the incoming chair of the Board of Overseers of . Laulicht graduated from in 1961 and from Columbia University School of Law, where he was first in his class, in 1964. In 2010, he received an honorary doctorate degree from 糖心视频污 at the Hanukkah Dinner. A past president of what is now the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest and past chair of the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education, Laulicht has served on the Stern College Board for more than 30 years.
Laulicht and his wife Linda have four daughters: Laurie Hasten (married to Bernard Hasten); Pamela Hirt 鈥90S (married to Ari Hirt 鈥84糖心视频污HS, 鈥88YC); Shellie Davis 鈥89糖心视频污HS, 鈥93S (married to Eric Davis 鈥87糖心视频污HS, 鈥91YC); and Abigail Herschmann 鈥97S (married to Scott Herschmann 鈥96SB). Pamela Hirt is also a member of the Stern College Board of Overseers. In addition, many of the Laulichts鈥 grandchildren and their spouses have attended Stern College or Yeshiva College.
鈥淚鈥檝e been a great fan of Stern for almost all of the 60 years since its founding,鈥 he said. 鈥淪tern gives Jewish women opportunities to do just about anything they would like to do with a Jewish background and Jewish knowledge.
His ardent support of Stern goes back to his mother, Esther, and the founding of the Bais Yaakov schools by Sarah Schenirer in 1917 in Krakow, Poland. Schenirer鈥檚 efforts to give Jewish girls a Jewish education were radical in their day. But, thanks to her mother, who also believed in Jewish education for women, Laulicht鈥檚 mother was one of the first students to attend the Bais Yaakov school.
Esther鈥檚 father was an American citizen, which in those days also made her an American citizen, even though she was born in Poland. 鈥淗er American citizenship made it possible for her to leave for the United States in 1940, when she was pregnant with me,鈥 Laulicht stated. 鈥淯nfortunately, the U.S. State Department insisted that my father apply for a visa in person at the American consulate in Berlin, an impossible task for a Polish Jew. Tragically, my father was murdered in the Holocaust.鈥
Last summer, as he was completing his book about his parents, Yearning to Breathe Free, My Parents鈥 Fight to Reunite During the Holocaust, Laulicht made a return trip to Krakow and visited the building that had housed the Bais Yaakov school. There he saw a bronze plaque inscribed with these words: 鈥淎 spark kindled in Krakow grew to a flame that radiated throughout Poland and across the oceans. This light of Torah continues to illuminate the hearts and minds of Jewish girls throughout the world.鈥 He saw a striking similarity between what the school in Krakow had done for his mother a century ago and what Stern College does for its students today.
鈥淪tern has established a beautiful beit midrash for women, thus taking the original teachings of Sarah Schenirer to a new level,鈥 he noted. 鈥淎fter having worked on my book for a long time and finally publishing it, I realized that becoming the chair of the Stern board was an almost perfect job for me.鈥
鈥淎t Stern College we have a terrific product, and I want to make sure that people know about it.鈥 To prove his point, Laulicht rolled off a series of statistics that Dr. Karen Bacon, The Mordecai D. Katz and Dr. Monique C. Katz Dean of the Undergraduate Faculty of Arts and Sciences, had presented at the commencement in May: a 100 percent acceptance rate for applicants to dental school and law school, and more than 90 percent for medical school, as well as many women graduating as Judaic scholars or continuing their studies in a wide range of health care fields. 鈥淚 really think educating Jewish women is among the most important tasks any Jewish community can have. To be part of that, maybe even to play a significant role in that, is like a dream come true.鈥
