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The Center for the Jewish Future holds an optimistic and bold vision for the future of American Jewish life, a vision of inspired and passionate leadership, strong and vibrant communities, and a Judaism that is relevant, meaningful, and ennobling.
The '''Center for the Jewish Future''' is a non-profit center at [[Yeshiva University]].


==Overview==
With one foot in the classroom and one in the community, we bring Yeshiva University’s wisdom to life in the real world, inviting the world to share our vision.
It consists of six divisions:
[[File:Counterpoint Israel.ogg|thumb|CJF Summer Program - Counterpoint Israel 2009]]


* The Max Stern Division of Communal Services (at the [[Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary]]) offers continuing education for rabbis, rebbetzins, and educators under the age of 40, as well as lay leaders.
And because of our dedication to Torah Umadda, Yeshiva University stands as a magnet for the best, most highly motivated, talented young people in the Jewish world today. The CJF nurtures these eager, energetic students, matching them with programs and placements that will build their leadership skills while benefiting the communities in which they serve. The Center for the Jewish Future creates a synergy that ignites passion and nourishes the soul.
* The Gertrude and Morris Bienenfeld Department of Rabbinic Services (Max Stern Division of Communal Services/Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary) provides training and placement services for rabbis and educators.
* The Community Initiative Division promotes education programming, outreach, dialogue, and [[tikkun olam]].
* The Association of [[Modern Orthodox Judaism|Modern Orthodox]] Day Schools provides educational services, advocates for member schools, and interfaces on their behalf with Yeshiva University faculty and students.
* The Leadership Training Division runs a number of programs including Quest (Quality Education Skills Training) that helps undergraduate students become more effective participants and leaders in Jewish Communal organizations. The Eimatai Leadership Development Project coordinates leadership training seminars for high school students across North America to focus on Social Action and Social Justice through a Jewish lens.
* The Research Division focuses on practical solutions to challenges such as infertility and organ donation. The division also includes the [[Torah Umadda|Torah U-Madda]] Project (including the Orthodox Forum, the Torah U-Madda Journal, and Ten Da’at: A Journal of Jewish Education) and hosts several independent organizations, including the [[Organization for the Resolution of Agunot (ORA)|Organization for the Resolution of Agunot]] (helping to prevent agunot or abandoned wives) and the Orthodox Caucus.


Rabbi Yaakov Glasser is dean of the Center for the Jewish Future.<ref>{{cite web|title=Glasser Appointed New Dean of CJF|url=http://blogs.yu.edu/news-and-views/2014/07/24/rabbi-yaakov-glasser-appointed-new-dean-of-cjf/|publisher=Yeshiva University}}</ref> He succeeds [[Kenneth Brander|Rabbi Kenneth Brander]] who was the inaugural dean of the CJF for nine years.
Our bold, cutting-edge programs are filled with meaning and hope for the Jewish future. We invite you to join with us in this noble journey and help strengthen CJF’s position as the voice of Modern Orthodoxy and as a powerful vehicle for ensuring a vibrant future for American Jewry.


==References==
==Empowering Leaders==
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One of the objectives of the Yeshiva University Center for the Jewish Future is to develop young Jewish leaders for today and tomorrow.


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We need passionate leaders who embody the YU vision and who can inspire their fellow Jews to find a spiritually satisfying balance between a worldview based on Jewish ethical and moral dictates and the demands of their secular lives. We need more of these leaders—in our schools, synagogues, community organizations, and corporations.
===Eimatai Leadership Development Project===
Through Eimatai, the Yeshiva University Center for the Jewish Future cultivates tomorrow’s leaders today, empowering high-school students to confront community challenges, empowering them to act, and supporting them to succeed in making positive contributions to their schools and communities.[http://www.eimatai.org/]
===Aaron and Blanche Schreiber Torah Tours===
Travel with a team of fellow students to share your wisdom and ruach with communities different from your own, all over North America. You will gain experience giving shiurim and coordinating programs for youth and adults, as well as bringing true Simchat Hachag to communities across the world.[[http://mytorahtours.com/]]
===Washington Fellows Program===
Over the past year, Yeshiva University’s Center for The Jewish Future (CJF) and members of the Greater Washington Jewish community have joined forces to develop an innovative program, designed to help inspire and train the next generation of Washington’s Orthodox Jewish leaders.[http://www.yu.edu/cjf/washington.aspx?id=36090&ekmensel=51b41ad4_2724_0_36090_1]


==Supporting Jewish Professionals and Spouses==
The Yeshiva University Center for the Jewish Future understands the essential need for building leaders. As part of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, CJF places rabbis throughout North America and beyond. It provides continuing education, mentoring, and the professional development of rabbis, as well as assistance to achieve balance in the roles they and their families play in their communities.
===LHREI===
The Legacy Heritage Fund Rabbinic Enrichment Initiative (LHREI) helps rabbis grow as professionals and individuals, offering skill-enhancing programs, resources, counsel, and guidance.[http://www.yu.edu/cjf/lhrei/]
====ChampionsGate – YU National Leadership Conference====
Engaging rabbinic, educational and lay leaders in issues confronting our communities, and working collectively to focus joint efforts on issues of common concern.
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'''Goal'''<br />
This yearly conference brings together rabbis, educators, and lay-leaders who are at the forefront of the Modern Orthodox community for two days to prioritize the issues facing our communities and create a national Modern Orthodox agenda for the coming year. The participants will bring back the conference message to the other rabbis, lay-leaders, and educators in their respective communities to assist in its implementation.
<br />
'''Format'''<br />
The National Conference consists of lectures by leading educators, rabbis, and lay-leaders in the Modern Orthodox community, workshops to improve leadership and organizational skills, and group discussions to address the challenges facing our communities.[http://yu.edu/cjf/championsgate/]
====Regional Rabbinic Seminars====
Bringing together rabbinic colleagues and their lay leaders to work together on common challenges, develop both personal and professional skills, and benefit from specialized resources.
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'''Goals'''<br />
The Regional Rabbinic Seminars seek to create a forum for rabbis and their lay leaders to further enhance knowledge and expertise in focused issues challenging their communities. In addition they help foster a relationship between rabbis as well as between rabbis and lay leaders.
<br />
'''Topics'''<br />
The themes of the Regional Rabbinic Seminars will be centered on a different aspect of the rabbis’ professional responsibilities, so as to provide them with a greater expertise on these matters. Some sample issues that may be addressed are marital counseling, infertility, dealing with disabilities, and post-traumatic stress.
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'''Format'''<br />
The Regional Rabbinic Seminars will gather a limited group of rabbinic colleagues and lay leaders five times a year, for two days each. Participation at this program is by invitation only.
====Community Days of Learning====
Providing rabbis with day long programs that engage their communities in discussion on issues of contemporary interest.
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'''Goal'''<br />
In cooperation with the rabbi and community lay leaders, the Community Days of Learning attempt to provide a meaningful, inspiring, and thought provoking program so that our rabbis are better able to confront the challenges of modern society together with their communities.
<br />
'''Topics'''<br />
Each year, nine different communities across North America will benefit from presentations on a wide variety of topics. From Healthy Family Dynamics to The Jew’s Role in Politics, Positive Jewish Parenting to Medical and Business Ethics, these programs seek to enlighten, enrich, and empower our rabbis and their communities.
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'''Format'''<br />
Just as each Community Day of Learning has a different focus, so too they each have a variety of formats in which the presentations and dissemination of information is conveyed, including plenums, interactive workshops, panel discussions, and moderated dialogues involving experts from across the country as well as local leaders in their respective fields.
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'''Presenters'''<br />
Each Community Day of Learning draws upon the talents and expertise of different lecturers. These noted scholars, academics, rabbis and educators all come with a rich yet diverse background enabling them to contribute to clarifying the rabbis complicated and weighty issues that impact and affect our families, synagogues, communities, and schools on a daily basis.
====Mentorship Program====
Pairing senior rabbis with promising young rabbis in order to provide guidance, as well as create a framework for sharing of ideas, insights, and concerns.
<br />
'''Goals'''<br />
To create a framework through which younger, less-experienced, rabbis are mentored by older, more experienced, ones in order to foster growth in areas relating to the pulpit, as well as to strengthen their skills in areas of programming, organizational leadership, pedagogy, and presentation. It also benefits the mentor rabbi by providing him with professional training in mentoring and a framework of other senior rabbis with whom they can share ideas, insights, and concerns.
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'''Format'''<br />
Eight senior rabbis from across North America are each paired with two promising young rabbis, for a total of sixteen rabbinic mentees. Each mentor speaks on a frequent basis with his mentee. Additionally, both mentor and mentee make two visits a year to the other’s community to observe, share, and learn from their partner’s community, interaction with synagogue members, and rabbinic styles.
====Rabbinic Research and Resource Center====
Assisting the community of rabbis with questions and queries in all areas of their profession, as well as providing access to Jewish scholarship on contemporary matters.
<br />
'''Goals'''<br />
The Rabbinic Research and Resource Center at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, Yeshiva University, will provide rabbis with support in all areas of their profession. This includes accessing Jewish scholarship on contemporary matters (areas of halacha, Jewish thought and history, medical and legal ethics), resolving challenging pastoral situations and halachic issues, help in crafting speeches, assistance in contract negotiations and other matters.
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'''How It Works'''<br />
In response to an initial request, the director of the center will refer the query to appropriate resident-experts at Yeshiva University for their assistance and, when appropriate, research it, gather the pertinent information, and send it to the rabbi.

The Rabbinic Research and Resource Center will also copy or scan materials from Yeshiva University's vast library of Judaic scholarship and fax them to rabbis across the world, giving them full access to Jewish sources in the original in preparation for their classes and their continued development as talmidei chachamim or Jewish scholars.
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'''Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman'''<br />
The program, under the auspices of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, is a project of Yeshiva University's Center for the Jewish Future. Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman, renowned Talmud scholar, author and lecturer, is program director under the guidance of Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter, YU's CJF Senior Scholar.
===Rabbinic Development===
Identifying, training, and mentoring the next generation of rabbis.
<br />
Our division seeks to instill within students at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) a passion for avodat hakodesh and to ensure that they have the speaking, counseling and management skills to lead the Jewish community.
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Initiatives and projects include:
* A mentoring and professional advisement program for all RIETS students
* Shaping the Professional classes at RIETS with Rabbi Zevulun Charlop
* A third- and fourth-year internship programs for RIETS students
* Recruitment for semikhah and careers in avodat hakodesh
* Or Chadash / Ner Leelef Outreach Training Fellowship
* Pok Chazi Program to interest students in positions outside of New York
* Spirituality retreats

'''RPEP [Rabbinic Training Program] Classes'''

The CJF partners with RIETS to offer the best in professional rabbinic training.

'''Career Guidance for Semicha Students'''

The talmidim of RIETS are our community’s future and we make sure to keep up with every one of them and provide necessary career guidance.

Starting in their second year, students choose a professional track and are assigned a track advisor:

* Pulpit / Community Rabbinate: Rabbi Marc Penner
* Education: Rabbi Gray Beitler
* Organizational Careers: Rabbi Gideon Shloush,
* Outreach: Rabbi Gideon Shloush,
* Hospital Chaplaincy: Rabbi Nathan Goldberg

'''Third- and Fourth-year Internships'''<br />
A crucial part of student training at RIETS is the internship program.

'''Third Year Internship'''<br />
This shimush program provides students with initial hands-on experience functioning as rabbinic professionals The assignment directly relates to each student’s defined rabbinic professional goals, helps the student explore and define his rabbinic professional goals.

'''Fourth Year Internship'''<br />

The Irving I. Stone Internship Program is a full-year mentored internship program in the synagogue, school, outreach, administrative, or chaplaincy setting. During this year, the student functions as a regular part of the rabbinic staff at the internship location. The Internship Director meets with each intern during the year to track his growth during this time.

In addition, the interns meet together regularly at the Professional Rabbinics Seminar to converse about their internship experiences, share ideas, and to participate in discussions with rabbinic leaders about vital skills and issues.
Recruitment for RIETS and Careers in Avodat Hakodesh

CJF runs programs throughout the year, including:

* Chodesh Avodas Hakodesh, programs in Adar in Yeshiva
* Lectures in Israeli yeshivot
* A special program with the Joint Distribution Center to send students to serve Eastern European communities
* Pok Chazi Program, in which students visit communities outside of the New York area
* Recruitment on college campuses
* Working with rbbinic alumni, RCA and shuls to create a climate where young men and women are encouraged to pursue careers in Avodat Hakodesh

'''Or Chadash / Ner Leelef Outreach Training Fellowship'''
This exciting new program, in partnership with Ner Leelef, allows students in both New York and the Gruss Center in Jerusalem to study for two years in preparation for careers in outreach. Students receive generous monthly stipends during their years of study and are then expected to work for at least two years upon graduation in an outreach position outside of New York.

===Tzelem===
Tzelem seeks to create resources and educational programming on issues of intimacy and sexuality within the Orthodox Jewish community, and to work with existing programs in this area and give them greater visibility.

Since individuals of different ages and stages of life have different needs, our programs are grouped based on the constituents they serve.

Helping people find holiness and wholeness in themselves and in each other,
וַיִּבְרָא אֱלֹהִים אֶת-הָאָדָם בְּצַלְמוֹ, בְּצֶלֶם אֱלֹהִים בָּרָא אֹתוֹ זָכָר וּנְקֵבָה, בָּרָא אֹתָם.
“And G-d created the human being in His image, in the image of G-d He created him, male and female He created them.” —Genesis 1:27

Tzelem, a Special Project of Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future, serves the Orthodox community in developing religiously-sensitive resources and educational programming on intimacy and sexuality for different constituents. Tzelem operates with the backing of Rabbis, educators and mental health professionals within the Orthodox community.[http://www.yu.edu/cjf/tzelem/page_cjf.aspx?id=17354&ekmensel=51b41ad4_2082_2084_btnlink]
===Rebbetzin's Yarchei Kallah===
'''Format'''<br />
The Yarchei Kallah consists of three-day retreats. Engaging rabbis and cohorts of about 40. A similar program is also available to assist Rebbetzins in their important and ever-increasing role in the synagogue and community.<br />
'''Goal'''<br />
The Yarchei Kallah program is designed to stimulate, strengthen, and sharpen the participating rabbis’ skills in areas of preaching, programming, pedagogy, and presentation, effectively training them to be better equipped in confronting the daily challenges of the pulpit and their synagogues. Additionally, it allows them to create a support system of similar minded colleagues in an effort to foster creative thinking and professional success.
==Building Communities==
There are many ways to define—and build—community. The Yeshiva University Center for the Jewish Future provides a breadth of services and caring: from consulting opportunities to Jewish communities to address their spiritual needs, to guiding lay leadership initiatives in individual communities, to sending students to diverse communities around the world.

The CJF is infusing communities, leaders, and students with energy and commitment.
===YU Connects===
The social landscape of dating and relationships is one of the challenges of this generation. YUConnects is designed to help YU undergraduate students and alumni navigate this difficult terrain.

With a series of programs including dating mentors, social programs in small and large settings, and a shadchanut service, YU CJF invests in the well-being of our students and alumni as well as the immortality of the Jewish people.[http://www.yu.edu/cjf/yuconnects/]
===Sephardic Community Program===
The YU Sephardic Community Program (SCP) was established in 1964 for the purpose of assisting Sephardic and Near Eastern communities in establishing a strong and vital presence in North America. Today these communities are growing by leaps and bounds and are in dire need of proper resources that will help them to develop the communal and organizational infrastructure that will keep their communities spiritually thriving for generations.

===Counterpoint Israel===
Counterpoint Israel (CPI) is a CJF summer program which brings motivated students to Israel to create a summer day camp for Israeli high schoolers in developing towns in Israel. The goal of the camp is to empower the Israeli teens by discussing with them important and relevant issues pertinent to their daily lives, like substance abuse and peer pressure, while teaching them English so they can develop those crucial language skills.
==Enriching Schools==
The Yeshiva University Center for the Jewish Future values the essential role of education in fostering a deeper understanding of faith, law, history, and tradition.

While technology puts learning just a few mouse clicks away, we also recognize that the immediacy of face-to-face study can never go out of style.
===Eimatai Leadership Development Project===
Through Eimatai, the Yeshiva University Center for the Jewish Future cultivates tomorrow’s leaders today, empowering high-school students to confront community challenges, empowering them to act, and supporting them to succeed in making positive contributions to their schools and communities.[http://www.eimatai.org/]
===The Institute for University-School Partnership===
The Institute for University-School Partnership draws on the intellectual capital and research expertise of Yeshiva University and connects it strategically and proactively to teachers and leaders in the field of Jewish education. The Institute offers extensive continuing education for teachers, administrators, lay leaders and other school-based professionals, recruits and places educators, conducts research and development projects in schools, and publishes practical, research-based materials. Collectively these initiatives improve the academic, behavioral, social, emotional, and religious outcomes for Jewish students in Jewish schools, develop more and better quality educators and lay leaders, and create a culture in the Jewish educational world of research, innovation, experimentation, reflection and collaboration based on Jewish values. The Institute is a division of the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration.[http://www.yu.edu/azrieli/schoolpartnership/]
===Special Projects===
Organizations at different levels of development are incubated by the Yeshiva University Center for the Jewish Future. In addition to mentoring their leaders and hosting their offices, the CJF works closely with these organizations to raise awareness and implement change regarding important current issues concerning Orthodox communal life.
====Organization for the Resolution of Agunot====
ORA is dedicated to helping women who are agunot (denied a religious divorce by their husbands). ORA works with batei din, rabbis and lawyers to streamline the Jewish divorce process, acting as an impartial intermediary between husband and wife, helping reestablish the often shattered lines of communication, to free women from the chains of a broken marriage.[http://www.getora.org/]
====Student Medical Ethics Society====
The Yeshiva University Student Medical Ethics Society (MES) is a student-run organization with the goal of promoting education and awareness of medical ethics at YU.
While increasing sensitivity to ethical issues in medicine that are relevant to the global community, MES is especially focused on issues of medical ethics relating to Halakhah (Jewish law) and Torah values. MES strives to make YU a global center for Jewish medical ethics, which will serve as an educational resource for
laymen, rabbis, patients, doctors, and other health professionals.[http://www.yu.edu/medicalethics/page.aspx?ID=3952]
====Student Delegation to the United Jewish Communities General Assembly====
Exposing 55 Yeshiva University students to the larger Jewish community, its organizations and the idea that they can make a difference, the presence of YU at the GA is formative, exciting and inspirational for the students and the larger Jewish world.

==Cultivating Women's Leadership==
===GPATS===
The Graduate Program for Women in Advanced Talmudic Study (GPATS) is creating an elite cadre of female scholars of Talmud and Halakhah to serve as leaders and role models for the Orthodox Jewish community through a sequential two-year curriculum.

The YU CJF enriches the GPATS scholars through pedagogic training, scholar-in-residence opportunities in synagogues around the country, and placement for significant positions in Jewish education.
===Rabbis' Wives' Yarchei Kallah===
The Yeshiva University Center for the Jewish Future has developed what is believed to be the first formal program at any rabbinical school or organization in America designed to give rabbis’ wives the opportunity to meet with seasoned professionals to discuss issues of self, family, and community in a safe and supportive environment.

The participants–young and old, from large metropolitan areas and from small towns across North America–will have the opportunity also to network, develop lasting relationships and a support system, and enjoy the intellectual stimulation of Torah study with leading Jewish scholars.

==Bringing Torah to the World==
===The Abraham Arbesfeld Kollel Yom Rishon===
Every Sunday, hundreds of men of all ages study Torah at our Wilf Campus-based shiurim. This program is also being established in Toronto, Los Angeles, and other cities across North America.[http://www.yu.edu/kollelyomrishon/]
===The Millie Arbesfeld Midreshet Yom Rishon===
Every Sunday, hundreds of women of all ages study Torah at our Wilf Campus-based shiurim. This program is also being established in Toronto and other cities across North America.[http://yu.edu/midreshetyomrishon/]
===The Marcos and Adina Katz YUTorah.org===
The Marcos and Adina Katz YUTorah.org is a Web site providing access to thousands of shiurim delivered by some of the finest teachers at YU and its affiliate, the Rabbi Isaace Elchanan Theological Seminary.
On average, YUTorah.org receives more than one million hits a month.[http://www.yutorah.org/]
===Global Learning Initiative - Bringing leading Torah personalities to the world===
Students and educators at Jewish day schools can connect to and engage with many of YU's leading Torah personalities and professors thanks to the Global Learning Initiative, an interactive, videoconferencing, distance-learning program that also affords access to resources and programs in Israel and Europe.

Schools in the growing GLI network are located in communities ranging from Seattle to Miami, and from Montréal to Memphis.




==Senior Staff==
*Rabbi Kenneth Brander, Dean
*Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter, Senior Scholar
*Rabbi Ronald Schwarzberg, Director, Jewish Career Guidance and Placement
*Rabbi Marc Penner, Director, Jewish Career Guidance and Placement
*Rabbi Ari Rockoff, Director, Community Initiatives



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== External links ==
* [http://www.yu.edu Yeshiva University]
* [http://www.yu.edu/cjf/ Yeshiva University Center for the Jewish Future]
* [http://www.riets.edu/ Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary]
* [http://www.getora.com/ The Organization for the Resolution of Agunot]
* [http://www.ocweb.org/ The Orthodox Caucus]


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Latest revision as of 07:54, 23 April 2024

The Center for the Jewish Future is a non-profit center at Yeshiva University.

Übersicht

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It consists of six divisions:

CJF Summer Program - Counterpoint Israel 2009
  • The Max Stern Division of Communal Services (at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary) offers continuing education for rabbis, rebbetzins, and educators under the age of 40, as well as lay leaders.
  • The Gertrude and Morris Bienenfeld Department of Rabbinic Services (Max Stern Division of Communal Services/Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary) provides training and placement services for rabbis and educators.
  • The Community Initiative Division promotes education programming, outreach, dialogue, and tikkun olam.
  • The Association of Modern Orthodox Day Schools provides educational services, advocates for member schools, and interfaces on their behalf with Yeshiva University faculty and students.
  • The Leadership Training Division runs a number of programs including Quest (Quality Education Skills Training) that helps undergraduate students become more effective participants and leaders in Jewish Communal organizations. The Eimatai Leadership Development Project coordinates leadership training seminars for high school students across North America to focus on Social Action and Social Justice through a Jewish lens.
  • The Research Division focuses on practical solutions to challenges such as infertility and organ donation. The division also includes the Torah U-Madda Project (including the Orthodox Forum, the Torah U-Madda Journal, and Ten Da’at: A Journal of Jewish Education) and hosts several independent organizations, including the Organization for the Resolution of Agunot (helping to prevent agunot or abandoned wives) and the Orthodox Caucus.

Rabbi Yaakov Glasser is dean of the Center for the Jewish Future.[1] He succeeds Rabbi Kenneth Brander who was the inaugural dean of the CJF for nine years.

References

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  1. ^ "Glasser Appointed New Dean of CJF". Yeshiva University.
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