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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