VOLUMEYU 8 NO. 12 ToYESHIVA UNIVERSITY • SUMMER d 2004 ay Yeshiva Without Walls ■ YU students take Jewish learning to distant communities and program coordinator. That was certainly the case in Baltimore last month when Congregation Shomrei Emunah and Suburban Orthodox Con- gregation Toras Chaim hosted a series of YU Torah seminars. Rabbi Shmuel Maybruch, a fel- low of RIETS’ Bella and Harry Wexner Kollel Elyon, lectured on Jewish law. YU students also provided instruction. In Atlanta, Rabbi Yona Reiss (l-r) Joshua Ross, Elysia Rothenberg, Anat Barber, Shira Rosenfeld, ’87Y,R, Yale Law School gradu- and Lisa Grundman, five of the eleven graduate fellows. ate and director of the Beth Din of America, a prominent Jeremy Bodek-Rosenbaum in an informal rabbinical court, is leading sim- educational session with children in Denver. ilar seminars, speaking on Beth Leaders in the Making Din procedures, business ethics, ewish life in the US is College for Women, Sy Syms and the connection between ■ Graduate Fellows take their place at YU broad and diverse. And School of Business, and Rabbi Jewish and secular law. Joining while options to live Jew- Isaac Elchanan Theological Rabbi Reiss are eight YU stu- ish lives are greater than Seminary have traveled to 26 dents and Rabbi Michael Jever—from university pro- cities in 16 states and 5 coun- Broyde YH,’84Y,R, a graduate of leven new fellows will to the president. grams to religious services to tries, delivering lectures on con- NYU School of Law and profes- assume positions in de- The 2004–05 fellows are informal education—access, temporary Jewish issues and sor of law and academic director partments around cam- Jacob Agatstein, Anat Barber, time, and guidance remain ob- providing one-on-one Torah of the Law and Religion Pro- pus, under a presiden- Rachel Horn Cyrulnik, Debra stacles for many people, espe- instruction. gram at Emory University. Etial initiative to train YU grad- Feinberg, Lisa Grundman, Ouriel cially professionals who are busy “The program’s hashkafa, or Professor Broyde, spiritual uates for leadership roles in Hassan, Shoshana Libin, Marisa building families and careers. philosophy, seeks to support leader of Atlanta’s Young Israel Jewish communal life. Parker, Shira Rosenfeld, Joshua Recognizing the opportunity an individual’s efforts to strike of Toco Hills, also taught classes The inaugural awardees of Ross, and Elysia Rothenberg. to fill a void, Yeshiva University a balanced interaction between and hosted participants. the Graduate Fellowship in They have been assigned to has created a spiritual peace tradition and modern society, In addition to Baltimore and University and Community the following departments: corps to bring intensive Jewish the hallmark of Modern Ortho- Atlanta, scholars from YU and Leadership at Yeshiva Univer- RIETS’ Max Stern Division of learning to smaller commu- doxy,” said Rabbi Ari Rockoff, RIETS have traveled to Omaha; sity are part of a broader effort Communal Services, Stern nities and major cities both here director of community initia- Los Angeles; Teaneck, NJ; Las to identify top graduates and College for Women Dean’s and abroad. Teams of students tives at RIETS’ Max Stern Divi- Vegas; Toronto; Vancouver; keep them connected to YU. Office, Sy Syms School of Busi- from Yeshiva College, Stern sion of Communal Services, Glasgow; and Melbourne. “My intention is to inspire ness Dean’s Office, Office of these young people not only to Student Affairs (on the Wilf pursue their professional and Beren campuses), Office of Yeshiva College Dinner Fetes Four Alumni dreams, but to remain com- University Life, Office of En- mitted to the university and to rollment Management, Office of ome of Yeshiva College’s oldest, and youngest, alumni joined more than 300 friends and the Jewish community by uti- the Vice President for Academic well-wishers at the Marriott New York at the Brooklyn Bridge in June to celebrate 75 years lizing the very real, demanding Affairs, and Development. Sof quality Jewish higher education and pledge support toward future success. skills they will gain,” said “The fellows will be exposed Four alumni were honored for their achievements: Rabbi Dr. Jacob Adler YH,’46Y,R; Rabbi President Richard M. Joel. to the inner workings of the Murray Grauer YH,’41Y,R, who served as a pulpit rabbi in Miami and White Plains, NY, for 50 “They will play a meaningful university,” said Dean Gelman. years; Dr. Jonathan Halpert YH,’66Y,F, who has coached YU men’s basketball since 1972; and role in enhancing the academic “The program seeks to help Rabbi Dr. (Col.) Victor M. Solomon YH,’50Y,R, a retired and decorated US Air Force chaplain. enterprise.” these young men and women A nine-minute video presentation and a commemorative dinner journal celebrated the The students were selected develop leadership skills and achievements of the honorees, as well as the first 75 years of YC. after an intense screening and apply them to their chosen Norman Adler, PhD, YC dean, spoke of “the historical challenge” that began with YC’s review process by Morton fields.” founding in 1928. He called the college the “cornerstone of centrist Orthodox Judaism.” Lowengrub, vice president for The experience, said Presi- Richard M. Joel, president of Yeshiva University, described YU’s history as a springboard for academic affairs; Sheldon Gel- dent Joel, should broaden achieving greater success, and called the four honorees role models for future YC students to man, PhD, Dorothy and David Yeshiva University’s service to, “build lives of dignity, honor, and purpose.” I. Schachne Dean of Wurz- and visibility in, the Jewish Arthur M. Luxenberg served as dinner chairman. weiler School for Social Work; community. and Ed Fox, ’75T,CTI, deputy continued on page 7 GIVING BACK BRIGHT FRIENDS OR TEA FOR FUTURES FOES? TWO President’s Circle Undergrads Joshua Twins’ Tea Funds Student Win Places at Zimmerman Research Projects Top Schools Re-examines Among Summer Polish-Jewish Ties Internships Page 3 Page 5 Page 6 Page 8 INSIDE www.yu.edu/news/publications 2 YUToday Summer 2004 PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Norman Adler, PhD, YC dean, was 1954–2004” at the American Jewish at WSSW, co-authored “Classical Reli- Moshe Pava, PhD, Alvin H. Tamar ’02S to Philip Gross, son of honored on the 25th anniversary of Historical Society’s 2004 Biennial gious Perspectives of Adoption Law” Einbender Professor of Business Michael Gross YH’73 and wife the University of Pennsylvania’s Scholars’ Conference on American in the Notre Dame Law Review (Vol. Ethics, SSSB; Deborah Cohn, Shaindy. Biological Basis of Behavior (BBB) Jewish History, and “Orthodoxy in 79, Issue 2). PhD, assistant professor of mar- major, one of the largest under- America on Display in the Arena of keting, SSSB; David Schnall, Arthur Hyman, BRGS dean, and wife graduate programs at Penn. Dean Sports, 1920–2000” at the confer- Alvin Schiff, PhD, ’47Y,B,F, AGS, PhD, AGS dean; and Mordechai Batyah on the birth of a grandson, Adler was the founder of the BBB ence Imagining the American Jewish Irving I. Stone Distinguished Pro- Cohen, PhD, associate professor Nethanel Isaac, to children Joseph program, which has been adopted Community, at the Jewish Theo- fessor of Jewish Education, presented of Bible, are among the lecturers Isaiah and Rena Hyman. at Columbia, Harvard, and other logical Seminary. a series of five lectures titled “The in a series sponsored by Edah at schools. Roots and Shoots of Zionism” at Con- the JCC of Manhattan. Howard Jonas, member, YC board A review of Eschatological Themes in gregation Torah Ohr, Boca Raton, of directors, and wife Debbie on the Noyes Bartholomew, DMA, associ- Medieval Jewish Philosophy, by FL. He also presented “Mordecai, marriage of son Shmuel to Jocelyn Isabel K. Balson and Cynthia ate professor of music and coordi- Arthur Hyman, PhD, BRGS dean, the Paradigm of Jewish Communal Berger ’02S. Benolken have been appointed nator of humanities, and David appeared in the Jan. 2004 issue of Leadership.” CSL registrar and assistant regis- Glaser, DMA, visiting assistant pro- Speculum, published by the Medieval Ephraim Kanarfogel PhD, YH,’77Y, trar, respectively. Previously, Ms. fessor of music, premiered original Academy of America. Hayim Tawil, PhD, instructor in B,R, E. Billi Ivry Professor of Jewish Balson was assistant and then musical compositions at a perform- Hebrew, contributed an article to a History and chairman, Rebecca Ivry associate CSL registrar; Ms. Benol- ance of Glaux, a music ensemble of Ephraim Kanarfogel, PhD, YH,’77Y, Festschrift on studies in the Bible and Department of Jewish Studies, ken was a registrar at Fashion Temple University. B,R, E. Billi Ivry Professor of Jewish the Ancient Near East, in Hebrew SCW, and wife Devorah on the birth Institute of Technology. Before that History and chairman, Rebecca Ivry and Semitic languages. The volume of their first grandchild, Yehuda, to she worked in the registrar’s J. David Bleich, PhD, Herbert and Department of Jewish Studies, SCW, honored Prof. Yitzhak Avishur, in daughter Tova ’02S, a CSL student, office at the School of Visual Arts. Florence Tenzer Professor of Jewish was named vice president of the the department of Hebrew Lan- and Yosef Milgrom ’02Y. Law and Ethics, CSL, gave a talk, Association for Jewish Studies, the guage at the University of Haifa. “Self-organized Criticality in Friction,” “The New York Get Law,” at a con- leading professional organization an article co-written by Fredy Bradley Karasik ’96Y, assistant dean ference on new trends in divorce for Jewish studies professors in Moshe D. Tendler, PhD, YC profes- Zypman, PhD, YC professor of of students, and wife Adina on the law, sponsored by the faculty of law, North America. He gave a lecture at sor of biology and Rabbi Isaac and physics, that was published in the birth of third child Zundel Yaakov.