WITS Bi-Weekly and Alumni Siyum HaShas Update: Good Shabbos!

WITS BI- Weekly

News from WITS and about WITS Alumni

January 6, 2012
Parshas Vayechi

In this issue...

Mazel Tovs

Alumni Siyum HaShas

Focus on Alumni

Alumni Jobs

Upcoming Events

January 7, 2012-
WITS Alumni Basketball Game at JCC Milwaukee 8:30 PM
September 2, 2012-
WITS Alumni Siyum HaShas

Contact us at alumni@witsyeshiva.com
for more information or to suggest more events and/or organize a class reunion.

Mach WITS a Shekel

#44 has signed on. Help us reach 50!

Get a free iPod shuffle offer for signing up by the end of Chanukah and help us reach 50 givers!

Click this link to go to monthly giving page to join!

First Alumni Game 2004

The 5th Annual WITS Alumni vs WITS Basketball game is this Motzoi Shabbos at the JCC in Milwaukee at 8:30 PM. E-mail your predicted winner to alumni@witsyeshiva.com and we will e-mail you the winner after the game!
Have you signed up to learn for the Siyum yet? Go to siyum.witsyeshiva.com to sign up.
The Dylan Tauber Mixed Martial Arts program is advancing; watch this clip of a recent lesson here.

Have a great Shabbos!

The Alumni Siyum HaShas update is below. You can also follow the siyum campaign feed at #witssiyum . Look at the new twitter feed that has updates when anyone completes their learning on the site!

Good Shabbos,
Jay Hellman
WITS Alumni Director
(414)963-9317 x124
alumni@witsyeshiva.com

Mazel Tovs

Mazel Tov to Daniel and Yaffa Greenwald (Class of 2001) on the birth of a girl.

Mazel Tov to Yissie and Shoshie Steinhart (Bais Medrash) on the birth of a girl.

Mazel Tov to Mordechai Twerski (Class of 2009) on his engagement to Aviva Silverman.

Mazel Tov to Moshe and Chana Leah (Zimmerman) Gildengorn (Bais Medrash) on their wedding.

Mazel Tov to Rabbi Daniel and Shoshi Lewin (Bais Medrash) on the birth of a girl.

Mazel Tov to Simcha and Jackie Perkal (Bais Medrash) on the birth of a girl.

Mazel Tov to Daniel and Bracha Spector on the birth of a boy.

Mazel Tov to Dovid Becker (Bais Medrash) on his engagement to Sarah Henya Dienstag.

Mazel Tov to Ben and Yehudis (Skolnick) Blavin (Class of 2009) on their wedding.

Mazel Tov to Gershon and Devorah Teigman (Bais Medrash) on the birth of a girl.

Keep me updated on alumni simchas at alumni@witsyeshiva.com!

Alumni Siyum HaShas-
Dear Alumni,
Where will you be next 15 Elul (September 2, 2012)? We hope you will be here at WITS to join us for the Grand Alumni Siyum HaShas! Check out the "See Who is Involved" page to see who is signed up to learn for the siyum and sign up for your section at the register page.
Here are some numbers so far:
215 Alumni Signed Up to Learn
2,711 out of 2,711 Blatt Signed Up For!
3 out of 6 Sedarim dedicated
12 out of 37 Mesechtas dedicated

In addition to the $3600 exclusive mesechta dedications, $1800 shared mesechta dedications are now available. Contact alumni@wityeshiva.com for more info or go to http://siyum.witsyeshiva.com/sponsorships.

Register at http://siyum.witsyeshiva.com/register for these blatt or any other overlapping blatt to participate! (You can also reply to this e-mail.)

The website for the Alumni Siyum HaShas, to be completed on September 2, 2012, (16 Elul) is up at http://siyum.witsyeshiva.com/
Visit the website to register for blatt and participate! It is mobile-friendly.
Click here to watch this four minute video of learning pictures at WITS throughout the years. If you don't see yourself, that is because you were probably too busy learning for the photographer to disturb you. So watch the video and sign up for learning at siyum.witsyeshiva.com!

Focus on Alumni

E-mail me at alumni@witsyeshiva.com to share info for focus on alumni.

Alumni Jobs
E-mail me any jobs in fields that may be applicable to alumni to alumni@witsyeshiva.com
Thank you!

Reunions
E-mail me at alumni@witsyeshiva.com to help plan your class reunion for your graduating class!

Have a good Shabbos!
Jay Hellman
WITS Alumni Director
(414)963-9317 x124
alumni@witsyeshiva.com