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Dec 9, 2002 -- For the first time in its nearly 90 years as a university, Yeshiva University has named a president who is not a rabbi. Richard M. Joel, president of Hillel, an organization that provides services for Jewish students on college campuses worldwide, was named president of Yeshiva on ...

Dec 8, 2002 -- Students from Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life gathered one night during the recent General Assembly of the Jewish federation system and confronted Richard Joel. The students peppered Joel, Hillel’s president and international director, with criticism that events during…

Dec 6, 2002 -- Yeshiva University has chosen the president of Hillel, the organization for Jewish college students, to be its president starting next June. Richard M. Joel will be the first non-rabbi in the post. Under a new arrangement, Joel will be chief executive officer of the school's ...

Dec 6, 2002 -- Richard Joel seems undaunted by the fact that some of the faculty and lay leadership at Yeshiva University’s rabbinical school opposed his becoming chief executive officer of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, the position he was elected to last week along with president…

Dec 6, 2002 -- Breaking with tradition, Yeshiva University has chosen someone who is neither a rabbi nor a religious scholar to be its next president. The new leader, Richard M. Joel, 52, is the president and international director of Hillel, an organization for Jewish college students. He is also…

Dec 6, 2002 -- After a long and contentious search for a new president, Yeshiva University trustees will meet tonight to vote from a short list of candidates. The most likely contender, board members say, is Richard Joel, president of Hillel, the world’s largest network of Jewish campus ...

Dec 5, 2002 -- Capping off an intense and historic evening, Richard M. Joel was elected the fourth President of Yeshiva University and Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary last night. Although he required only 80 percent of the Board of Trustees' support to be named President of Yeshiva, Joel…

Nov 10, 2003 -- The Office of Research Integrity at the National Institutes of Health awarded a research grant to Margaret Gibelman, DSW, professor and doctoral program director, Wurzweiler School of Social Work. Dr. Gibelman is leading an investigation of whether, and to what extent, universities…

New York, NY, Nov 10, 2003 -- Jenna Weissman Joselit, Marsha L. Rozenblit, Moshe Bar-Asher, and Zvi Arie Steinfeld have joined the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies faculty as visiting professors during the 2003-2004 academic year. Jenna Joselit, who is teaching “The Making of…