BETWEEN THE LINES; Where Will Joel Take Yeshiva U.?

From: The New York Jewish Week | Date: August 22, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

In his first interview as president, Richard Joel speaks of moving forward, but cautiously.

Richard Joel is well aware that on the eve of his being chosen president of Yeshiva University last December, a number of students and rabbis were so opposed to his election that they recited Tehillim (Psalms), a prayerful response to times of crisis and danger. For some, the fact that Joel was not a rabbinic scholar and, moreover, had for years headed Hillel, the Jewish campus organization that celebrates pluralism, signaled an impending revolution for Yeshiva, away from its Torah roots.

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