Back To Center For YU? With Richard Joel poised to become president, there's much support for, and resistance to, his views

From: The Jewish Week | Date: November 29, 2002| Author: Rosenblatt, Gary | Copyright information


The Jewish Week

11-29-2002

Will Richard Joel -- expected to be elected this week as Yeshiva
University's new president -- redirect the flagship institution of Modern
Orthodoxy from its rightward move of the past several decades back toward
the center?

That's a question being asked in the halls of Yeshiva and throughout the
community at the apparent culmination of a long and difficult search
process for a successor to Dr. Norman Lamm, who has...

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