Good evening, everybody. I just want to let everyone know that there is additional seating on the second floor.

We have a live simulcast feed. If anyone wants to go upstairs, there's about another 150 people upstairs.

So it's really exciting to welcome you 600 or so people to this event.

It's really a milestone for both the community

and obviously the SCA to be here

to have both Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

and Rabbi Joey Dweck addressing us as a community.

So welcome.

I also want to thank, obviously, Jaime Schama,

the president of the SCA for everything he does for the community and the SCA.

And no SCA event would be complete without thanking Morris Bailey, Mr. Morris Bailey for his leadership, his vision.

So just a few words before we get into the main show, because I know you guys didn't come

to see me. Throughout Jewish history, Jewish leadership has always been a bipartisan effort.

From Moshana Haron to David and Natan, there has always been a collaboration between religious

leaders and secular leadership. The religious leaders guide the people to fulfill the word of God,

and the secular leaders assure the Jewish people a secure and safe future.

A society in which being a Jew expanded well beyond the walls of the practices of the Bermedrash

and into the character integrity of society in the hopes of fulfilling the commandments

of becoming a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.

Over the last 20 years, the SRC, the Sephardic Rabbinical College,

an SEA affiliate and a community institution, had the vision and foresight to lay the groundwork to make sure

we, as a community, had the religious leadership to build and bred from within our community.

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