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News Y.U. Comes Up With Shortlist To Replace Richard Joel
As the flagship institution of American Modern Orthodoxy is looking for a new president, a number of prominent rabbis — including Shmuley Boteach and Jonathan Sacks — have been overlooked. “We are looking for someone with the right qualifications,” said a university spokesman. “We need someone who can work with the Torah-observant community but who…
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Breaking News Patriots Owner Robert Kraft To Receive Honorary Doctorate From Yeshiva University
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, a noted philanthropist, will receive an honorary doctorate from Yeshiva University. Kraft, a noted philanthropist, also will deliver the keynote address at the New York Jewish school’s 85th commencement ceremony at Madison Square Garden in May, the university announced Thursday. “Robert Kraft represents not only success in business, but…
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Opinion What Sex Abuse Cases at Horace Mann and Y.U. Should Teach Us
As a former student at Horace Mann School in the Bronx’s Riverdale neighborhood, I was instrumental in breaking the silence around the prestigious prep school’s decades-long history of child sexual abuse. Although I myself am not an abuse survivor, I saw many of my fellow alumni’s stories come to light when The New York Times…
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The Schmooze The Maccabeats Are Back With a New Hanukkah Hit
Your favorite Jewish a cappella boys are back — and they’ve brought a frying pan. The former Yeshiva University students that brought you such hits as and “Cups (D’ror Yikra)” have released a new hit, just in time for Hanukkah. “Latke Recipe,” which premiered on Time.com on Monday, is a parody of Walk the Moon’s…
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News Richard Joel Scores $1.6M Payout Amid Deep Yeshiva Fiscal Crisis
As his college’s finances continued to crumble last year, Yeshiva University’s president, Richard Joel publicly took a pay cut. Then months later, he privately pocketed a deferred compensation payment of $1.6 million. That payout took Joel’s total compensation for 2014 to $2.8 million, among the highest packages for college presidents nationwide. But unlike most of…
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Breaking News Richard Joel to Step Down From Yeshiva University at End of Term
The president of Yeshiva University, who has steered the flagship Modern Orthodox institution through a sex abuse scandal and an ongoing fiscal crisis, has announced that he will step down at the end of his current term. Richard Joel, 65, announced his pending departure at the end of an email sent to staff, students and…
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Breaking News Y.U. To Issue Mass Layoff Warnings to Einstein Med School Staff
More than 2,500 employees at Yeshiva University’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine will soon get notices from the school warning that they could be laid off this summer. The notices are being prepared as YU gets set to transfer much of its control over the medical school to Montefiore Health System. It is unclear how…
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Opinion A Deadly Plague of Shabbat Fires
The Sabbath fire that killed seven children in an Orthodox Jewish family in Brooklyn on Saturday was at least the fourth deadly blaze in the borough resulting from Sabbath and holiday observance in the past 15 years. In all 11 people have been killed in the four fires, all but one of them children. At…
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