This past Tuesday, JTS confered honorary doctorates on the 41 RA Members listed below who have served in the rabbinate for 25 years or more. Gilah Dror, RA President, delivered greetings, and Jack Moline, RA Director of Public Policy, spoke on behalf of the honorees. Chancellor Eisen confered the degrees and delivered the convocation address (the text of which we will post in the coming week). See the official JTS press release for more details about the event.
| Raphael Charles Adler | Eric M. Lankin |
| Woodbury, New York | Highland Park, New Jersey |
| Morris J. Allen | Akiba Lubow |
| Mendota Heights, Minnesota | Springfield, New Jersey |
| Samuel Barth | Aaron Leonard Mackler |
| New York, New York | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Guillermo Luis Bronstein | Noam Eldad Marans |
| Lima, Peru | New York, New York |
| Howard R. Buechler | Howard M. Markose |
| Dix Hills, New York | Jerusalem, Israel |
| Jonathan M. Case | Jack L. Moline |
| Columbia, South Carolina | Alexandria, Virginia |
| Mark Steven Cooper | David F. Nesenoff |
| South Orange, New Jersey | Stony Brook, New York |
| Amy Eilberg | Pinchas N. Pearl |
| Mendota Heights, Minnesota | Brooklyn, New York |
| David Mark Eligberg | Bernardo J. (Baruj) Plavnick |
| Albany, New York | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Dario Feiguin | Michael Lewis Rascoe |
| Buenos Aires, Argentina | Houston, Texas |
| Alejandro (Alex) Felch | Marvin Richardson |
| Deerfield, Illinois | Jericho, New York |
| Marc Boone Fitzerman | Scott M. Rosenberg |
| Tulsa, Oklahoma | Ottawa, Ontario |
| Daniel Goldman | Efraim Rosenzweig |
| Buenos Aires, Argentina | Vina del Mar, Chile |
| Jay R. Goldstein | Jaime Rosenzweig |
| Owings Mills, Maryland | Campinas, Brazil |
| Leonard Gordon | Jacob Rosner |
| Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts | King of Prussia, Pennsylvania |
| Reuven S. Greenvald | Michael J. Schorin |
| New York, New York | Skokie, Illinois |
| Abraham Baruch Joseph Havivi | Laurence A. Sebert |
| Los Angeles, California | New York, New York |
| Hayim Yehuda Herring | Rick Sherwin |
| Minneapolis, Minnesota | Longwood, Florida |
| Steven C. Kane | Abraham Skorka |
| Briarcliff Manor, New York | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Paul David Kerbel | Stefan J. Weinberg |
| Marietta, Georgia | Plano, Texas |
| Irwin Kula | Felipe Carlos Yafe |
| New York, New York | Buenos Aires, Argentina |