Touro College held its annual commencement on May 28. During the ceremony, guests heard speeches from the valedictorians of Touro’s Lander College of Arts and Sciences (LAS), Lander College for Men (LCM) and Lander College for Women (LCW).

Keynote speaker Jason Dov Greenblatt, an assistant to the president of the United States and special representative for international negotiations, received an honorary Doctor of Laws from Touro College, and then spoke about the unlikely journey he, the son of a Holocaust survivor and a Hungarian refugee, took to the halls of the White House.

“I would like to impress upon each of you today is the importance of keeping an open mind, embracing new opportunities and maintaining the willingness to reinvent yourselves and the resilience to do so,” Greenblatt advised.

Rabbi Moshe Krupka, Touro’s executive vice president, called Greenblatt’s work an “ongoing Kiddush Hashem, a sanctification of God’s name.”