Yeshiva University

 NY Rabbi Well has also served as Executive Vice-President of the Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York, as well as Dean of Undergraduate Jewish Studies of Yeshiva University, where he directed the James Striar School and Isaac Breuer College. ...

  USA Rabbi Norman Lamm, the chancellor and former president of Yeshiva University, caused a stir in recent days when he asserted in an interview with the Jerusalem Post that the liberal branches of Judaism are disappearing. “With a heavy heart we will soon ...

 Israel By RABBI SETH FARBER Rabbi Norman Lamm's recent interview with The Jerusalem Post has been cited in virtually every major Jewish newspaper around the world. As leader of Centrist Orthodoxy and Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University, Rabbi Lamm is clearly ...

 FL It wasn't until I got into Yeshiva University that I wanted to be involved with people. I thought I'd go into Jewish education, teaching high school. It was my wife who said my skills would be better in the pulpit. I'm very, very grateful she said that ...

 NY A philosopher by trade, Eckstein maintained a lifelong passion for the study of religion, from his time studying at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University in New York City in the 1940s through the completion of his latest ...

 Canada The New-York-born rabbi was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary and later by Yeshiva University. Appointed to his post in December 2004, he traces the new attitude towards Jews to the fall of Communism. Suddenly, Rabbi Schudrich said, ...

 Israel Schonfeld was reacting to an interview with Chancellor of Yeshiva University Rabbi Norman Lamm in which he predicted the imminent demise of the Conservative and Reform movements. "With a heavy heart we will soon say kaddish on the Reform and ...

 NJ Case in point: In a Jerusalem Post interview this week, Rabbi Norman Lamm, who is Orthodox, has violated both of these precepts of the talmudic life. Rabbi Lamm — the former president of Yeshiva University who holds the ceremonial position of ...

 PA His family came to the United States nearly six years later. He completed undergraduate work at Yeshiva University in New York. He stayed in New York to do graduate work at the Jewish Theological Seminary, and he was ordained a rabbi. ...

By Ami Eden · May 13, 2009 Another top leader of Conservative Judaism is taking issue with Rabbi Norman Lamm, the chancellor of Yeshiva University, for his recent assertion that "with a heavy heart we will soon say kaddish on the Reform and ... Orthodox, FTW?! Jewschool

 Canada He will receive an honorary doctorate from Yeshiva University on June 15 at a convocation and dinner at Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, along with Supreme Court Justice Morris Fish and Rabbi Howard Joseph of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue.

Perhaps as an antidote to Jewish histrionics in the context of the Pope's Jerusalem visit, the Jerusalem Post carries a refreshing interview with Rabbi Norman Lamm of Yeshiva University, a prominent personality in centrist Orthodoxy. ... Orthodox, FTW?! Jewschool

 VT He went to Yeshiva University and earned his graduate degree, a master's in Hebrew literature, from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City, where he was ordained a rabbi. During World War II, Wall enlisted in the Army Chaplain Corps. ...

The situation is said to be so bad that Rabbi Norman Lamm, the chancellor of Yeshiva University, told the Jerusalem Post this week that we should say Kaddish for both the Conservative and Reform movements. "The Conservatives are in a mood of ... Orthodox, FTW?! Jewschool

 NY What parallel universe has Yeshiva University Chancellor Rabbi Norman Lamm been living in? According to Lamm, Reform Judaism has never played a role in American Jewry, and Conservative barely has. And the increased membership in Reform congregations is ...

 Israel By MATTHEW WAGNER The Reform and Conservative Movements are disappearing, Yeshiva University Chancellor Rabbi Norman Lamm said over the weekend. "With a heavy heart we will soon say kaddish on the Reform and Conservative Movements," said Lamm, ...

 NY Rabbi Moses David Tendler of Community Synagogue of Monsey, a professor of medical ethics and biology at Yeshiva University as well as an expert on Talmudic law, said the group's slaughter of a cow showed a disregard for laws as well as the group's ...

 NY Perhaps the most distinguished writer on Jewish legal issues today in the mainstream Orthodox community is Rabbi J. David Bleich of Yeshiva University, where he holds the Herbert and Florence Tenzer Chair in Jewish Law and Ethics. ...

 MI In New York City, he attended Yeshiva University and was ordained as a rabbi in 1951. He led Congregation Mt. Sinai in Port Huron until 1993. The resolution commends him for creating the Holocaust memorial, which became a model for similar centers. ...

 NJ These children are part of our community as well and they've been treated as second-class citizens for too long. Rabbi Michael Taubes is religious leader of Cong. Zichron Mordechai in Teaneck and a member of the faculty of Yeshiva University.

 NY - Larry Gordon It's important to note that at a recent meeting in New York hosted by the Jewish Board of Advocates for Children, a statement was read in the name of Rabbi Hershel Schachter, a rosh yeshiva at Yeshiva University, in which he said that in halachah ...

Rabbi Schudrich, born in New York City in 1955, is a graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and Yeshiva University. From 1983 to 1989, he served as rabbi of Japan's Jewish community. He began working for the Ronald Lauder Foundation in ...

 NY The seminary is an alternative to Yeshiva University, increasingly seen as dogmatic and insular. Hurwitz studied privately for six years with Weiss, and it is he who devised the new title. Rabbi Weiss has taken many risks during his career. ...

  USA I learned the answer from Rabbi Moshe Feinstein. This gadol hador, the greatest sage of his generation, was so renowned he was referred to simply as “Rav Moshe.” The closest I came to this legend was at Yeshiva University High School, where my rebbe ...

 Israel - David Geffen Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, he was inspired by a religious school teacher to love Judaism and to want to be a rabbi. When he began high school, he was given the opportunity to study at a Manhattan yeshiva. Greenspan entered Yeshiva University ...

 United States By then, at age 44, he was a rabbi and a professor at Yeshiva University, and he had dozens of contemporaries beside him atop the building, all taking note of the especially brilliant day. Rabbi Bleich remembers these stray days so precisely because of ...

 Israel The film shows Rabbi Moshe Dovid Tendler, a senior figure at New York's Yeshiva University, leading a group of English speakers to the Temple Mount, explaining the religious and political context of his custom to visit the site every time he comes to ...

 NY Rabbi Tzvi Flaum’s success in the Five Towns has within it an enigmatic dimension that is difficult but still fascinating to try to dissect. As a close talmid of the Rav, Rabbi JB Soloveichik at Yeshiva University, Rabbi Flaum quickly demonstrated a ...

 NY Rabbi J. David Bleich, professor of law and ethics at Yeshiva University, says he is “bemused” by environmental activity being linked to Birkat Hachamah. Bleich, whose 1981 book “Birchas Hachamah” is an exhaustive English-language treatment of the ...

 NY No one wants in dealing with the tuition crisis to water down Jewish education," said Rabbi Kenneth Brander, the dean of the Yeshiva University Center for the Jewish Future in Manhattan. "But you are finding for the first time a whole bunch of ...

RABBI FRED ACKERMAN, 75 Rabbi Ackerman earned a rabbinical degree from Manhattan's Yeshiva University. He served as spiritual leader of Congregation Aviv Hadash in New Springville for the past 15 years. Described as a friendly and outgoing person who enjoyed being with people ...

He then went east to serve congregations in Florida and New Jersey and to earn a doctorate in Hebrew literature at Yeshiva University. But as Lerer told The Chronicle (Oct. 4, 2002) on the occasion of his 50th year in the rabbinate, he had become ...

Rabbi Rackman, who had been the chancellor and the president of Bar Ilan University, graduated from Yeshiva University High School in 1927 (he was the ... Emanuel Rackman, leading Orthodox thinker, dies at 98 Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Rabbi Kanarfogel's interest in Jewish history goes back to his time spent at Yeshiva University High School and Yeshiva College. "Throughout [my education], I had the privilege of studying with rabbeim and teachers who were outstanding ...

This is a brief announcement that at my own site on www.donaldsensing.com, Rabbi Daniel Jackson has joined the team as a columnist, blogging from Israel. His first post is, "Hamastan - a view from Israel." Daniel is a former sociology professor who left the academy to study for rabbinic ordin...