reece Se Para ned Ordination Sinai Temple, Los Angeles May 19, 2008 / 14 Iyar 5768of Ceremony CELEBRATORY DINNER PROCESSIONAL LCOME INVOCATION OPENING REMARKS, CONFERRAL OF THE SIMON GREENBERG AWARD. FOR ACHIEVEMENT. IN THE RABBINATE CHARGE TO THE ORDINANDS SHT'UR KADDISH DE-RABBANAN REFLECTIONS ON RABBI/STUDENT RELATIONSHIP PRESENTATION OF THE BET DIN RECESSIONAL RECEPTION RABBI CHERYL PERETZ PRESIDING Associate Dean, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies Ma Tovu by Danny Maseng CANTOR JOSEPH GOLE and CANTOR ARIANNE BROWN Organist & Choir Director: ARYELL COHEN SANDOR E. SAMUELS Chairman of the Board, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies RABBI AARON ALEXANDER Assistant Dean, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies RABBI ROBERT WEXLER President, American Jewish University RABBI JOEL H. MEYERS Presented by SANDOR E. SAMUELS RABBI BRADLEY SHAVIT ARTSON Dean and Vice President, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies A Group Reflection, Babylonian Talmud, Taanit 7a Presented by SALOMON GRUENWALD Rabbi's Kaddish Led by WARREN LEVY REB MIMI FEIGELSON Mashpiah Ruchanit RABBI ELLIOT DORFF, Av Bet Din Rector, American Jewish University RABBI JOEL E, MEYERS Executive Vice President, The Rabbinical Assembly RABBI ALVIN L. BERKUN Past President, The Rabbinical Assembly Samachti by Charles Osborne CANTOR JOSEPH GOLE and CANTOR ARIANNE BROWN Organist & Choir Director: ARYELL COHENSimon Greenberg Award Honoree RABBI JOEL H. MEYERS Rabbi Joc! H. Meyers is Executive Vice President of the Rabbinical Assembly, the association which supports and serves the professional and personal needs of Conservative/Masort rabbis Worldwide, The Assembly oversees the work of the Movement’s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, administers the affairs of the Joint Placement Commission, actively publishes books and materials of scholarly and general interest, and together with other ans of the Conservative Movement is active in promoting Conservative/Masorti Judaism throughout the world. While constantly committed to the well-being of rabbis and the rabbinate, Rabbi Meyers is involved in a wide range of Jewish communal and interfaith projects. He serves on many communal boards and professional committees, including the Executive of the World Zionist Organization and the Board of the Jewish Agency for Israel, the Board of Directors of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, the Board of Directors of the National Interfaith Coalition on Aging, and committees of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations. Hee has served as Chairman of the Board of the International Jewish Committee for Intereligious Consultations (L/CIC) representing eleven religious and communal Jewish organizations involved in interfaith conferences and dialogues, and is on the Executive Committee of the National Council of Synagogues engaged in United States interfaith consultations. He has been an active force in helping to expand the Conservative/Masorti Movement throughout the world, Rabbi Meyers assumed his current position in 1989. Following ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1966, he served as a congregational rabbi in the Boston area for fifteen years (Temple Emunah, Lexington, Massachusetts and ‘Temple Shaare Tefila in Norwood, Massachusetts) and then as Associate Director of B'nai B'rith International in Washington, D.C, directing many of the institution's worldwide operations, Rabbi Meyers holds graduate degrees from New York Universi Andover Newton Theological School, the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, and an honorary doctorate from the Jewish Theological Seminary, He was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary and is a graduate of Queens College of the City University of New York. He and his wife Sandy reside in White Plains, New York. ‘The Rabbi Simon Greenberg Award is awarded to a member of the Rabbinical Assembly for outstanding achievement in the Rabbinate