LA Alumni Get-Together
January 2004

 

Looking around the room at Emek Hebrew Academy in Los Angeles, one could only wonder, is this sunny Southern California or a warmer satellite of Milwaukee, Wisconsin? The room represented 3 decades of WITS alumni; from students from WITS year number one to current WITS High School students, all gathered together to celebrate the time they spent at WITS. While the evening featured great food, inspiring words of Torah from Rabbi Wachsman and stories of the old days, the most remarkable facet of the evening was how many of the WITS alumni, many of whom had not seen each other in a decade or more, embraced each other immediately, spending the evening catching up on news, good and bad, as if nothing had changed and not time had passed at all. The room was not filled with old schoolmates from years gone by, but old friends connected to each other forever because of the wonderful years they spent together at WITS. And even as the evening drew to a close, and old friends reluctantly said goodbye to one another, there was a palpable feeling in the room that we will always all remain an important part of the WITS family not only important to the Yeshiva and its Rebbeim, but to each other.

 

Photo Album (click images to enlarge)