Join us for our annual Evening of Roses on Tuesday, May 30 at 6 p.m. Please RSVP by May 25!
Location:
Bethany Hall (South Orange Campus)
400 S Orange Ave, South Orange, NJ, 07079
Online registration has closed. Please contact Program Manager, Yolanda Sheffield Williams at 973-761-9006 or Yolanda.sheffieldwilliams@shu.edu.
Learn more about our honorees:

Rabbi Noam Marans
American Jewish Committee's Director of Interreligious and Intergroup Relations
Sister Rose Thering Award for Outstanding Service in Education for Interreligious Harmony
Rabbi Noam Marans is AJC's Director of Interreligious and Intergroup Relations, heading the agency’s national interfaith outreach and advocacy. Before arriving at AJC in 2001, he served for sixteen years as rabbi of Temple Israel in Ridgewood, NJ. He earned a B.A. in political science at Columbia University and an M.A. and Rabbinical Ordination at the Jewish Theological Seminary, which has recognized him with an honorary doctorate for decades of service to the Jewish people. He is a past president of the Northern New Jersey Board of Rabbis and serves as chair of IJCIC, the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations.

Rev. Msgr. C. Anthony Ziccardi
Coordinator For Undergraduate Admissions and Retention and Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies
Sister Rose Thering Award for Outstanding Service to the Sister Rose Mission
Monsignor Anthony C. Ziccardi was born in Italy but grew up in New Jersey. Having graduated summa cum laude from Seton Hall with a B.A. in sociology and a Master of Divinity degree, he was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Newark in 1990. Subsequently, he received a licentiate degree in Sacred Scripture (S.S.L., magna cum laude) from the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome and a doctoral degree in biblical theology (S.T.D., summa cum laude) from the Pontifical Gregorian University, also in Rome. From 2013 to the present, he has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Sister Rose Thering Fund. From June 2019 to November 2020, he served as the Interim Executive Director of the Sister Rose Thering Fund.