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He didn’t see boundaries,” says Avi Schick. Though he spent more than sixty years in Jewish communal service, “Marvin was an outsider,” not a paid leader of any Jewish organization or beholden to any particular parochial agenda or single constituency. David Luchins, longtime chair of the Political Science Department at Touro College. Schick was not regarded as a representative of any particular Jewish organization, says Dr. Interestingly, Avi Schick used the same word, an absence of “boundaries” to describe his father in the Winter 2021 issue of Jewish Action about shtadlanim(see link): He worked with and for the interests of both charedim and the Modern Orthodox, but was affiliated with no particular organization.” Schick and his speech were introduced (in Yiddish) by Rav Elya Svei ZT”L, and we offer Rav Svei’s remarks as well. Schick’s yahrtzeit, we are pleased to provide Cross-Currents readers with this speech about Jewish education that he delivered at a Torah Umesorah dinner 30 years ago. It is a terrific illustration of his passion, intellect and idealism.ĭr. He worked with and for the interests of both charedim and the Modern Orthodox, but was affiliated with no particular organization. (I’m not sure who the others were, if any.) As President of the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School for 45 years, through his work with the Avi Chai Foundation and in countless other ways, his concern for Jewish education transcended all boundaries. He ignored other boundaries as well. When the government was on the verge of announcing that all yeshivos were acting illegally by moving general studies education to afternoon hours, he was one of those most responsible for getting it to do an about-face, thereby saving Torah education. Jewish education was the cause closest to his heart. In the 1960s and 1970s he led the fight to protect the rights of observant Jews, to combat discrimination against Shabbos observers and for aid to parochial schools. He did so through his mighty pen (producing an avalanche of op-eds), and as a member of city and state administrations in NY. Schick was involved in a wide-range of communal activities. The obituary run by the New York Times shows his prominence in the non-Orthodox world.ĭr. He was a scholar and intellectual who was also a firebrand, a fierce protector of the Orthodox community who was also unafraid to express his criticisms, a writer and a speaker who was first and foremost a doer, a university professor, and a devoted and loyal follower of his guidestar, Rav Aharon Kotler ZT”L. Schick was a unique figure in American Jewish life. For private patients he operates at Prince of Wales Private Hospital and Sydney Surgical Centre.Today, Sunday, June 1 st marks the 2nd yahrtzeit of our former Cross-Currents contributor, Dr. He completed a Hand Surgery fellowship at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London. Dr Schick has two public hospital VMO appointments including the prestigious Sydney Hospital Hand Surgery unit as well as Prince of Wales Hospital as an Orthopaedic Surgeon focussing on hand and wrist surgery. He is heavily involved in clinical and laboratory research and regularly is asked to present his expertise at hand surgery meetings. He is a passionate educator and his many teaching commitments include Anatomy teaching for surgical trainees at the University of New England and he is the course coordinator for the Microsurgery component of the Sydney University Masters of Surgery. Dupuytren’s surgery is also a particular interest and he performs collagenase injections for this condition when indicated.ĭr Schick also has a Post Graduate Sports Medicine degree and is enthusiastic about returning patients to their sporting and work activities as soon as possible after injury or surgery.

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He performs the full gambit of reconstructive hand surgery and is highly trained in microsurgery, small joint replacement, wrist arthroscopy and endoscopic carpal tunnel release using the single portal technique (MicroAire), which has the advantage of avoiding any incisions on the palm. He has a particular clinical interest in bone and soft tissue trauma to the hand including extensive experience managing complex wrist injuries. Dr Bernard Schick is an Orthopaedic Surgeon with a particular focus on hand and wrist surgery.

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