Emet 20th Anniversary Gala - Mr. Alex Babakhanov

welcome everyone if everybody could please have their seats so we can begin our [Music] program yeah thank you everyone for joining us tonight as we all know emed is truly a fascinating organization that has been around for 20 years uh Ed started when I started college in 2004 2004 not 2024 I wish it would be nice it's okay we won't hold it against you and I have so many friends acquaintances people who we've come across that some of whom I knew were part of a at some of whom I did not even know were part of a met and that's the beauty of it when an organization touches your life touches your friends touches your children in a way that is there just to uplift more so than to bring down that's what you want to be a part of and some people whom I thought were part of the organization for years have just gotten on the bandwagon so one of the slides that we saw said what's next after these 20 years what's in the next 20 years and there's only one way and that way is up we have so much more to accomplish we have so much more to do but AED doesn't really stop there Amed stays involved in our lives as we get married build families they offer advice they help with Shalom B it raising our kids helping them get placed into yes many of us started with a met because we didn't go to yeshivas we went to public schools and we became more connected with Judaism when we get to the college level when we find out wait a minute there's an organization that actually gives a damn and that's a met really helping to launch the next decade of a met the potential is beyond what we can imagine tonight in addition to celebrating a met we have some amazing and truly deserving honores each and every one of them tonight I have the privilege to give the award to Steven harowitz as I stated earlier there are some people in this in this room that have only been part of a met for the last few years whom have been brought in by other Mt trustees other Mt Founders and other Mt students stud from the beginning my friend Yuri who I just realized was a part of AED recently and I've had the privilege of bringing Steve on board to this wonderful organization that we call AMT and in particular Amed Outreach is dedicating the Amed women's division one of the fastest growing and most impactful divisions of Amed run by Aden fandel [Applause] in memory of Steven's mother TMA bad Raa now I can't say that I've had the privilege of meeting her but getting to know Steven on a personal level not only on a professional level I know that she was a true SED and what she did with this individual was is and will be truly remarkable what a great Merit this is to TMA and to Steve thank you all [Applause]