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Apr 28, 2010 -- ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ High Schools (ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æHS) will hold their Annual Dinner of Tribute on Sunday, May 16, 2010 at New York City’s Grand Hyatt. Zev and Judy (Hecht) Berman will be the guests of honor. Special tribute will be paid to their parents, Rabbi Julius and Mrs. Dorothy Berman and Rabbi Michael and Mrs. Sara Hecht. Mrs. Vera Glatt will be awarded Faculty Member of the Year and Rabbi Elie Weissman will receive the Young Leader of the Year award. Judy Berman is a graduate of ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æHSG (Central), Stern College for Women and NÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ Law School. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æHS and has served as the chair of the Parents Council of ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æHSG for the past four years and held the same position at ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æHSB (MTA) for four years. Zev Berman, a Yeshiva College graduate, is a founding member of the Board of Directors of Yeshiva College and serves on its executive committee. They reside in Jamaica Estates and are proud parents of four children – all former, current and future ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æHS students. Their parents have longstanding relationships with ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ. Rabbi Berman currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ’s affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) and as a member of the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee of ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ. He also serves as the Chairman of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany, Inc. and as an honorary president of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America. Mrs. Berman, a Stern College and Ferkauf Graduate School alumna, currently serves as a vice chair of the Board of Overseers of Stern College. Rabbi Hecht, a former dean and graduate of ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æHSB, currently serves as its Maggid Shiur. A graduate of Yeshiva College and Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, he received semikhah from RIETS. He taught at ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æHSB and Yeshiva College for almost 30 years and served formally in the role of dean of Yeshiva College and as ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ’s pre-law advisor. Mrs. Hecht spent many years working at the registrar’s office at ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ’s Cardozo Law School. Mrs. Glatt is completing her 36th year as a teacher of English, ranging from junior high through college, the last 10 of which have been spent at her alma mater, ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æHSG. She lives in Hillcrest with her husband, Jay. Rabbi Weissman has been teaching Torah and Tanach at ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æHSG since 2006. He received his rabbinic ordination from RIETS. Since 2005, Rabbi Weissman has served as Rabbi of Young Israel of Plainview, where he lives with his wife, Avital. For reservations, to place an ad in the journal or for more information about the dinner please contact 212-960-5366 or email yuhsdinner@yu.edu.