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| successor1 = [[Ari Berman]] |
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| term = 2017- Present- Professor at YU |
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| spouse = Esther née Ribner |
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| alma_mater = [[New York University]] |
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| occupation = attorney, professor |
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'''Richard M. Joel''' (born September 9, 1950) is a Jewish scholar who was the fourth [[University president|president]] of [[Yeshiva University]] (YU), a [[Modern Orthodox Judaism|Modern Orthodox]] [[Jew]]ish [[university]] in [[New York City]]. He has written on topics that include Jewish leadership, the BDS movement on college campuses, and civil discourse.<ref>{{cite web|title=Disagreeing Agreeably |publisher=Higher Ed |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2016/04/01/bds-movement-highlights-need-restore-civil-discourse-campuses-essay}}</ref> |
'''Richard M. Joel''' (born September 9, 1950) is a Jewish scholar who was the fourth [[University president|president]] of [[Yeshiva University]] (YU), a [[Modern Orthodox Judaism|Modern Orthodox]] [[Jew]]ish [[university]] in [[New York City]]. He has written on topics that include Jewish leadership, the BDS movement on college campuses, and civil discourse.<ref>{{cite web|title=Disagreeing Agreeably |publisher=Higher Ed |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2016/04/01/bds-movement-highlights-need-restore-civil-discourse-campuses-essay}}</ref> |
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==Education== |
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==Academic and professional credentials== |
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Richard Joel received his BA and JD from [[New York University]], where he was a Root-Tilden [[law]] [[scholar]]. He received honorary doctorates from Boston Hebrew College and [[Gratz College]]. He was an assistant district attorney and Deputy Chief of Appeals in the [[Bronx]]. His career continued as [[academician|associate]] [[dean (education)|dean]] and professor of law at YU's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.<ref name=YUbio>{{cite web |title=Biography of Richard M. Joel |publisher=Yeshiva University |url=http://www.yu.edu/president/biography/ |accessdate=July 22, 2014}}</ref> |
Richard Joel received his BA and JD from [[New York University]], where he was a Root-Tilden [[law]] [[scholar]]. He received honorary doctorates from Boston Hebrew College and [[Gratz College]]. He was an assistant district attorney and Deputy Chief of Appeals in the [[Bronx]]. His career continued as [[academician|associate]] [[dean (education)|dean]] and professor of law at YU's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.<ref name=YUbio>{{cite web |title=Biography of Richard M. Joel |publisher=Yeshiva University |url=http://www.yu.edu/president/biography/ |accessdate=July 22, 2014}}</ref> |
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Joel became president of YU in 2003, succeeding Rabbi Dr. [[Norman Lamm]], who had been president since 1976. He stepped down in June 2017. As YU President, Joel appointed new deans for [[Yeshiva College (Yeshiva University)|Yeshiva College]], the [[Albert Einstein College of Medicine]], the [[Syms School of Business]], and the [[Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary]] (RIETS), and added faculty positions throughout the university. He facilitated the construction of the Jacob and Dreizel Glueck Center for Jewish Study, and established the Center for Jewish Future.<ref>{{cite web |author=Shuki Taylor |date=August 30, 2013 |publisher=ejewishphilanthropy.com |url=http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/eight-years-of-yeshiva-universitys-center-for-the-jewish-future-counterpoint-israel/ |title=Eight Years of Yeshiva University's Center for the Jewish Future Counterpoint Israel |accessdate=August 30, 2013}}</ref> Joel established the Katz School of Graduate and Professional Studies,<ref>{{Cite |
Joel became president of YU in 2003, succeeding Rabbi Dr. [[Norman Lamm]], who had been president since 1976. He stepped down in June 2017. As YU President, Joel appointed new deans for [[Yeshiva College (Yeshiva University)|Yeshiva College]], the [[Albert Einstein College of Medicine]], the [[Syms School of Business]], and the [[Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary]] (RIETS), and added faculty positions throughout the university. He facilitated the construction of the Jacob and Dreizel Glueck Center for Jewish Study, and established the Center for Jewish Future.<ref>{{cite web |author=Shuki Taylor |date=August 30, 2013 |publisher=ejewishphilanthropy.com |url=http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/eight-years-of-yeshiva-universitys-center-for-the-jewish-future-counterpoint-israel/ |title=Eight Years of Yeshiva University's Center for the Jewish Future Counterpoint Israel |accessdate=August 30, 2013}}</ref> Joel established the Katz School of Graduate and Professional Studies,<ref>{{Cite press release|title = Yeshiva University Establishes The Katz School of Graduate and Professional Studies |url = http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/yeshiva-university-establishes-the-katz-school-of-graduate-and-professional-studies-300239153.html|accessdate = 2016-03-22}}</ref> and restructured [[Yeshiva University]]’s [[Albert Einstein College of Medicine]].<ref>{{Cite web|title = Yeshiva University, Montefiore finalize new agreement for Albert Einstein College of Medicine |date = 10 September 2015 |url = http://www.news-medical.net/news/20150910/Yeshiva-University-Montefiore-finalize-new-agreement-for-Albert-Einstein-College-of-Medicine.aspx |accessdate = 2015-09-10}}</ref> Joel also worked to strengthen the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein and S. Daniel Abraham honors programs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.yu.edu/honors/2010/04/28/honors-library-opens/ |title=Honors Library Opens for Business|website=blogs.yu.edu|publisher=Yeshiva University|date=April 28, 2010|accessdate=April 28, 2010}}</ref> |
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As president of RIETS, he established the Rabbinic Personal Development Program, a joint Graduate Program in Pastoral Counseling between [[RIETS]] and Ferkauf. The joint program provides opportunities for second-, third- and fourth-year [[RIETS]] students who plan to pursue a career in [[Jewish]] communal work.<ref>{{cite news |date=August 24, 2016 |title=RIETS & YU's Ferkauf Grad School Announce Program in Pastoral Counseling |work=The Jewish Voice|url=http://jewishvoiceny.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15458:riets-a-yus-ferkauf-grad-school-announce-program-in-pastoral-counseling&catid=102&Itemid=787&lang=en/ |accessdate=August 24, 2016}}</ref> Additionally, President Joel established various centers and programs including the university's centers for Ethics, Public Health and the Jewish Future, and the Glatt Program on Israel and the Rule of Law. He also established a Presidential Fellowship program that provides training and professional development to recent graduates to further their path toward communal leadership. |
As president of RIETS, he established the Rabbinic Personal Development Program, a joint Graduate Program in Pastoral Counseling between [[RIETS]] and Ferkauf. The joint program provides opportunities for second-, third- and fourth-year [[RIETS]] students who plan to pursue a career in [[Jewish]] communal work.<ref>{{cite news |date=August 24, 2016 |title=RIETS & YU's Ferkauf Grad School Announce Program in Pastoral Counseling |work=The Jewish Voice|url=http://jewishvoiceny.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15458:riets-a-yus-ferkauf-grad-school-announce-program-in-pastoral-counseling&catid=102&Itemid=787&lang=en/ |accessdate=August 24, 2016}}</ref> Additionally, President Joel established various centers and programs including the university's centers for Ethics, Public Health and the Jewish Future, and the Glatt Program on Israel and the Rule of Law. He also established a Presidential Fellowship program that provides training and professional development to recent graduates to further their path toward communal leadership. |
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He was appointed President Emeritus and continues as the Bravmann Family University Professor, teaching leadership courses across Yeshiva University.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/nyregion/yeshiva-university-names-ari-berman-president.html|title=Yeshiva University Names Ari Berman President|first=Joseph|last=Berger|newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 17, 2016}}</ref> |
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==Personal life== |
==Personal life== |
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Joel was born on September 9, 1950, and was raised in Yonkers, New York. He and his wife Esther (née Ribner), who holds a PhD from YU's [[Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology]], have six children – all of whom have attended Yeshiva University schools – and thirteen grandchildren.{{cn|date=December 2022}} They currently reside in [[Riverdale, Bronx|Riverdale]], New York.<ref>{{cite news |last=McNeil |first=Kate |url=http://www.riverdalepress.com/full.php?sid=2397¤t_edition=2008-01-03 |title=For Yeshiva's president, life can imitate television |newspaper=The Riverdale Press |date=January 3, 2008 |accessdate=May 3, 2008 |quote=Riverdale resident Richard Joel compares his job—president of Yeshiva University—to the presidency of the United States. |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120229051402/http://www.riverdalepress.com/stories/For-Yeshivas-president-life-can-imitate-television,26707 |archivedate=February 29, 2012 }}</ref> |
Joel was born on September 9, 1950, and was raised in Yonkers, New York. He and his wife Esther (née Ribner), who holds a PhD from YU's [[Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology]], have six children – all of whom have attended Yeshiva University schools – and thirteen grandchildren.{{cn|date=December 2022}} They currently reside in [[Riverdale, Bronx|Riverdale]], New York.<ref>{{cite news |last=McNeil |first=Kate |url=http://www.riverdalepress.com/full.php?sid=2397¤t_edition=2008-01-03 |title=For Yeshiva's president, life can imitate television |newspaper=The Riverdale Press |date=January 3, 2008 |accessdate=May 3, 2008 |quote=Riverdale resident Richard Joel compares his job—president of Yeshiva University—to the presidency of the United States. |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120229051402/http://www.riverdalepress.com/stories/For-Yeshivas-president-life-can-imitate-television,26707 |archivedate=February 29, 2012 }}</ref> |
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Latest revision as of 05:39, 7 March 2024
Richard M. Joel | |
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President Emeritus of Yeshiva University[1] | |
In office 2017- Present- Professor at YU | |
President of Yeshiva University[1] | |
In office 2003 - 2017 | |
Preceded by | Norman Lamm |
Succeeded by | Ari Berman |
Personal details | |
Born | 9 September 1950 |
Spouse | Esther née Ribner |
Alma mater | New York University |
Occupation | attorney, professor, Leadership Guru |
Richard M. Joel (born September 9, 1950) is a Jewish scholar who was the fourth president of Yeshiva University (YU), a Modern Orthodox Jewish university in New York City. He has written on topics that include Jewish leadership, the BDS movement on college campuses, and civil discourse.[2]
Bildung
[edit]Richard Joel received his BA and JD from New York University, where he was a Root-Tilden law scholar. He received honorary doctorates from Boston Hebrew College and Gratz College. He was an assistant district attorney and Deputy Chief of Appeals in the Bronx. His career continued as associate dean and professor of law at YU's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.[3]
Hillel presidency
[edit]From 1989 to 2003, Joel served as President and International director of Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, an organization which supports Jewish life for college and university students throughout the world. In 1994, Joel orchestrated Hillel's independence from B'nai B'rith, its parent organization since 1925. While at Hillel, Joel attracted major philanthropists such as Michael Steinhardt, Edgar Bronfman, Sr., and Lynn Schusterman and Charles Schusterman. During his tenure, Hillel partnered with Birthright Israel, launching the Steinhardt Jewish Campus Service Corps, a group of recent college graduates tasked with engaging unaffiliated Jews and drawing them to Judaism and Jewish events. Hillel also expanded to the former Soviet Union and South America.[4] Joel's tenure at Hillel has been criticized by some as providing stylish instead of substantive Judaism.[5] However, he also received praise for his "skilled management, magnetism, personal warmth,"[4] as well as revitalizing the Hillel movement.[6]
During his tenure at Hillel, Joel served as the head of the special commission impaneled by the Orthodox Union (OU) to investigate allegations that community leaders had ignored charges against the abusive outreach rabbi Baruch Lanner, an executive with the OU's National Conference of Synagogue Youth (NCSY). The commission concluded that many OU and NCSY leaders had made serious errors in judgment.
Presidency of Yeshiva University
[edit]Joel became president of YU in 2003, succeeding Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm, who had been president since 1976. He stepped down in June 2017. As YU President, Joel appointed new deans for Yeshiva College, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the Syms School of Business, and the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), and added faculty positions throughout the university. He facilitated the construction of the Jacob and Dreizel Glueck Center for Jewish Study, and established the Center for Jewish Future.[7] Joel established the Katz School of Graduate and Professional Studies,[8] and restructured Yeshiva University’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine.[9] Joel also worked to strengthen the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein and S. Daniel Abraham honors programs.[10]
As president of RIETS, he established the Rabbinic Personal Development Program, a joint Graduate Program in Pastoral Counseling between RIETS and Ferkauf. The joint program provides opportunities for second-, third- and fourth-year RIETS students who plan to pursue a career in Jewish communal work.[11] Additionally, President Joel established various centers and programs including the university's centers for Ethics, Public Health and the Jewish Future, and the Glatt Program on Israel and the Rule of Law. He also established a Presidential Fellowship program that provides training and professional development to recent graduates to further their path toward communal leadership.
He was appointed President Emeritus and continues as the Bravmann Family University Professor, teaching leadership courses across Yeshiva University.[12]
Personal life
[edit]Joel was born on September 9, 1950, and was raised in Yonkers, New York. He and his wife Esther (née Ribner), who holds a PhD from YU's Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, have six children – all of whom have attended Yeshiva University schools – and thirteen grandchildren.[citation needed] They currently reside in Riverdale, New York.[13]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Board of Trustees | Yeshiva University". www.yu.edu.
- ^ "Disagreeing Agreeably". Higher Ed.
- ^ "Biography of Richard M. Joel". Yeshiva University. Retrieved July 22, 2014.
- ^ a b "Hillel Faces New Campus Challenge: A New President To Lead Its Mission". The Jewish Federations of North America. December 9, 2002. Retrieved July 22, 2014.
- ^ Jeremy Deutchman (March–April 1999). "Hillel Incorporated: The Franchising of Modern American Jewry". Tikkun. Archived from the original on January 24, 2003. Retrieved July 22, 2014.
- ^ Edgar M. Bronfman; Lynn Schusterman; Michael Steinhardt; Neil M. Moss (December 5, 2002). "Richard Joel Named Yeshiva University President". Hillel. Retrieved July 22, 2014.
- ^ Shuki Taylor (August 30, 2013). "Eight Years of Yeshiva University's Center for the Jewish Future Counterpoint Israel". ejewishphilanthropy.com. Retrieved August 30, 2013.
- ^ "Yeshiva University Establishes The Katz School of Graduate and Professional Studies" (Press release). Retrieved 2016-03-22.
- ^ "Yeshiva University, Montefiore finalize new agreement for Albert Einstein College of Medicine". 10 September 2015. Retrieved 2015-09-10.
- ^ "Honors Library Opens for Business". blogs.yu.edu. Yeshiva University. April 28, 2010. Retrieved April 28, 2010.
- ^ "RIETS & YU's Ferkauf Grad School Announce Program in Pastoral Counseling". The Jewish Voice. August 24, 2016. Retrieved August 24, 2016.
- ^ Berger, Joseph (November 17, 2016). "Yeshiva University Names Ari Berman President". The New York Times.
- ^ McNeil, Kate (January 3, 2008). "For Yeshiva's president, life can imitate television". The Riverdale Press. Archived from the original on February 29, 2012. Retrieved May 3, 2008.
Riverdale resident Richard Joel compares his job—president of Yeshiva University—to the presidency of the United States.
External links
[edit]- "Biography of Richard M. Joel". Yeshiva University.
- "Office of the President". Yeshiva University.