2023 Evening of Roses Gala

"I know the power of teachers. It is my deepest wish that teachers in our public and parochial schools, with scholarship assistance, will be able to enroll in Jewish-Christian Studies at Seton Hall University to stem the tide of ignorance in our schools and in society." — Sister Rose Thering, O.P., Ph.D.

The Sister Rose Thering Fund's annual fundraiser raises money for student scholarships, while honoring those who work tirelessly to advance Sister Rose's legacy by fostering understanding and cooperation among Jews, Christians and people of other religious traditions through advocacy and education.

Our 2023 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

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

Read more about our honorees below.

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.