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Category Archives: Yeshiva University
Yeshiva University Salaries
I went to Guidestar.org and found this 990 form filed for 2012, which listed salaries as follows: Norman Lamm: $483,752 Richard Joel: $1,242,424 Morton Lowengrub: $467,711 Herbert Dobrinsky: $343,189 Daniel Forman: $922,452 Allen Spiegel: $1,084,782 Hillel Davis: $273,688 Andrew J. … Continue reading
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How Long Will Richard Joel Last At YU?
Richard Joel is the fourth president of Yeshiva University. The New York Daily News reported July 12, 2013: Five more former Yeshiva University High students have stepped forward to say they were molested by staffers at the prestigious Jewish institution … Continue reading
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Rabbi Meir Soloveichik’s Good Work For The Lord
Rabbi Meir Soloveichik was a scholar in residence at YICC about nine years ago, before he had his PhD. Then, about four years ago, he was in residence one weekend at Bnai David-Judea. This week he was in Los Angeles … Continue reading
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Pre-Marital Sex Story Shakes Up YU
This controversy illustrates something I love about Orthodox Judaism — it makes more of life significant. Most communities would not become aghast at a story about pre-marital sex, but in Orthodox Judaism it is a shanda. Those Jews who take … Continue reading
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Tagged conservative clothes, marital sex story, orthodox judaism, pre marital sex, pre marital sex story, turning over a new leaf
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Yeshiva University Attempts To Ban Whistleblower Robert Frank From Friday Night Prayers
Here’s an email about Mashgiach Robert Frank Dear Luke, I have another story for you. On Friday night when Robert Frank and his wife went to synagogue — services are held in a cafeteria on the Albert Einstein School of … Continue reading
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Do Rabbis Avi Weiss, Saul Berman Deserve To Be Called ‘Amalek’?
Yehuda posts to Hirhurim: Gil, it’s lovely you’re so tolerant. I’m glad you know what they mean. Despite your tolerance, I think anyone calling you, Rabbis Weiss or Berman, or any other Torah opinions "Amalek" deserves a public rebuke, and … Continue reading
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Tagged beit midrash, lawrence kaplan, public apology, rabbi david, rabbi dovid, torah scholars
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YU Lays Off 60 Employees
From The Jewish Star: The Jewish Star has learned that Yeshiva University will lay off 60 employees. This follows the announcement several months ago of millions of dollars in losses incurred in the debacle involving Bernard Madoff, former chairman of … Continue reading
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Yeshiva University Winter Appeal for Students
A friend says: "Is a "trajectory of exceptional growth" the Modern Orthodox term for losing $110m?" Here’s the letter: Dear Yeshiva University Community: This has certainly been both an extraordinary and unusual year. In spite of the economic turmoil, our … Continue reading
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Inside Yeshiva University
Here is its 990 form filed in 2006. They 1,566 employees making more than $50,000 that year. The highest paid employees? * Sheldon E. Socol (Vice President and Counsel to the President) $784,000 * Professor Victor Shuster $595,000 * Professor … Continue reading
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Chairman of Yeshiva University Business School Arrested in $50 Billion Ponzi Scheme
Gadi Pickholz emails: Chairman of Yeshiva University Syms School of Business indicted in one of the largest ponzi schemes in history, as much as $50 BILLION — not million. Sorry, something is fundamentally wrong. From an analytic and statistical approach, … Continue reading
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Tagged fundraising capabilities, probability charts, rabbi menachem, sexual scandals, university business school, Yeshiva University
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