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Young Israel of Oak Park will host
a weekend of festivities to welcome
Rabbi Shaya Katz as its new spiritual
leader.
Katz, 29, will assume his new role
on July 1. He is leaving his post in
Kansas City, Kansas, where he served
as executive director of the Kansas City
Community Kollel. Rebbetzin Rikki
Katz, a Chicago native, taught Judaic
studies at the Hyman Brand Hebrew
Academy and led women’
s program-
ming at the KC Kollel. Before Kansas
City, the couple lived in the Bronx,
where he served as an assistant rabbi
for the Riverdale Jewish Center and its
resident social worker. The couple have
three children under age 4.
Katz succeeds Rabbi Michael Cohen,
who left YIOP a year ago in July. Katz
has rabbinic ordination from RIETS
at Yeshiva University and a master’
s
degree from the Wurzweiler School of
Social Work, along with a certificate in
Jewish communal service.
YIOP, a Modern Orthodox congre-
gation, will host a Kiddush on Shabbat,
July 6, and a barbecue for members at
the synagogue on July 7.
Young Israel of Oak Park Welcomes New Rabbi
Rabbi Shaya and Rikki Katz with Elka, Asher and Dovi
WWII Veteran to be Honored
Businessman and philanthropist
Morton E. Harris of Detroit was
among four United States D-Day
and World War II veterans honored
during a 75th anniversary D-Day
ceremony at America’
s National
Churchill Museum at Westminster
College in Fulton, Mo.
Harris, 99, is a member of the
Association of Churchill Fellows and
a highly decorated U.S. Army Air
Force veteran who successfully com-
pleted more than 33 combat mis-
sions over occupied Europe during
World War II, and flew two early
morning sorties during the D-Day
invasion of Normandy to attack
enemy strongholds at Caen, France.
His many accomplishments
during the war include his successful
delivery of arms to French freedom
fighters who fought in support of
the Allied troops, and the bombing
of enemy coastal defenses and com-
munications networks. Harris was
a squadron commander in the 95th
Bomber Group of the 8th Air Force
and was shot down twice by enemy
fire.
Harris, a longtime supporter
of America’
s National Churchill
Museum, also flew the first U.S.
Air Force mission to Berlin as the
Allies closed in on the German mil-
itary bringing an end to the war in
Europe.
Churchill Fellow William Clark Durant III speaks about Fellow Morton “Mort” Harris
at a ceremony.
AMERICA’
S NATIONAL CHURCHILL MUSEUM
National Council of Jewish Women,
Michigan Jewish Youth Awards is an
annual scholarship program for high
school seniors. Applicants are judged
on a written essay, their leadership
and community service in the secular
and/or Jewish communities. Eight
finalists were honored at an awards
ceremony in May: Samuel Gawel, first-
place award, $2,500; Sophie Sherbin,
second-place award, $1,200; Brayden
Hirsch and Shayna Lopatin, third-
and fourth-place winners, $500; Eve
Dickman, Ryan Frank, Lily Kollin and
Ali Randell, honorable mentions, $200.
This year’
s judges were Lisa Cutler,
Janet Gendelman and Alan Muskovitz.
The Jewish Youth Awards are made
possible by Dina and Herman (z’
l)
Brodsky Jewish Youth Awards Fund,
and Nathan (z’
l) and Esther (z’
l) Katz
Jewish Youth Awards Fund.
NCJW Awards for Local Youth