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83.9 (April 16, 2018) APRIL 16, 2018 The Independent Student Newspaper of Yeshiva University Volume LXXXIII Issue 9 Rabbi Ozer Glickman, YU Rosh Yeshiva, Dies Suddenly at 67 By Benjamin Koslowe Wilf campus as recently as Monday afternoon on the day Yeshiva University as a rosh yeshiva and teacher of Talmud of his death. and halakhah to undergraduate and semikhah students. Rabbi Ozer Glickman, a YU rosh yeshiva and teacher Rabbi Glickman studied philosophy at Columbia His “Business and Jewish Law” course in Sy Syms School in Sy Syms School of Business and Isaac Breuer College, University, where he received his BA. He also studied of Business has 68 students registered this Spring 2018 died suddenly on Monday, March 19. Glickman, a resident philosophy and religion on the graduate level at the semester; in Isaac Breuer College (IBC), one of the Wilf of Teaneck, New Jersey, leaves behind his wife, Ilana, as University of Toronto, and he earned an MBA in finance campus’ four undergraduate Torah studies programs, well as six children and several grandchildren. He was 67 from New York University’s Stern School of Business in Glickman’s “Jewish Values in the Contemporary World” years old. 1980. He studied at Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav Kook and, course currently has 35 registered students. In May 2015, The Commentator learned of Rabbi Glickman’s according to his YUTorah biography, “received rabbinic Glickman received the Adjunct of the Year award from Sy passing on Monday evening when President Ari Berman ordination from leading rabbinic figures in Israel and the Syms School of Business. Diaspora.” announced the news at the beginning of a shiur kelali at SEE GLICKMAN, CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 the Beren campus Beit Midrash. Glickman was seen on the Since 2000, Rabbi Glickman has been affiliated with Dean of Students Chaim Nissel Announces New Wilf Minyan Where Women Can Give Divrei Torah By Avi Strauss Dr. Chaim Nissel, Dean of Students, released a statement on Friday, March 23 describing plans for a new “community” minyan on the Wilf campus next semester where women will be able to give divrei Torah. Dr. Nissel explained that this decision was made after “student feedback” regarding Shabbat services at YU. The statement comes one month after several articles in the student newspapers discussed, questioned, and further criticized the administration for not addressing Wilf campus policies concerning women’s roles in uptown Shabbat activities. Dean Nissel’s full statement: “In light of student feedback, we have decided to review our policies with respect to the Klein@9 In Memory of Rabbi Glickman Zt”l: minyan and Shabbat services at YU. Klein@9 has been conceptualized as one of the yeshiva minyanim, and A Mentor and Role Model so had followed the typical practice of minyanim in batei midrash at men’s yeshivot in which presenters of divrei torah in the sanctuary are men. Starting next yet he was unabashedly himself. He was who he was, By Raymond J. Cohen semester, we will add a student-run YU community wherever he was. He did not vacillate between two realms minyan in a new, soon to be determined venue in but rather infused his entire personality into all of his In a speech commemorating the twentieth anniversary which––like minyanim in YU communities across the interactions. of Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination, Rabbi Ozer Glickman Zt”l world––women and men alike may deliver divrei torah I first met Rabbi Glickman while collaborating on a said of the former Prime Minister of Israel, “it is the fate after services. We look forward to continuing to work story for this newspaper about YU’s new Business Ethics of all men and women with outsized achievements to be with students to formulate meaningful programming at curriculum. Our conversation rapidly developed into a seen as symbols.” Individuals and communities naturally Yeshiva University.” discussion about our role as Jews in the world, which led strive to learn principles of guidance from the select few The statement comes after the recent controversy to a back-and-forth about his upbringing, early education, whose accomplishments in achieving ideals transcend the regarding women delivering divrei Torah at a Wilf and career as a trader on Wall Street. Somehow, it evolved norm. Rabbi Glickman’s own outsized achievements as a campus Shabbat minyan. On December 16, 2017, Lilly into a discourse of Rav Shimon Shkop’s understanding of rosh yeshiva, first-rate scholar, professor, and veteran of Gelman, a student at Stern College for Women, delivered the laws pertaining to rov (majority). I was fascinated Wall Street led many in the YU community to view him as a dvar Torah from the pulpit upon the conclusion of the by both his erudition in Torah and his vast knowledge a symbol of Torah U’Madda in our time. student-run and Student Organization of Yeshiva (SOY)- Rabbi Glickman was a philosopher and a poet, a of the world of finance. Each of these would have been talmudist and a quant. A thinker, a teacher, and a consultant. He mastered the boardroom, the classroom, SEE MENTOR AND ROLE MODEL, SEE NEW MINYAN, CONTINUED and the beit midrash. He was all things to all people and CONTINUED ON PAGE 19 ON PAGE 6 NEWS PAGE 10 FEATURES PAGE 16 OPINIONS PAGE 31 BUSINESS PAGE 33 YC Deans Involve Students in Selection of Yeshiva University Valedictorians: A Look into This Is Not Only About Dating, Why Any Smart Investor Should New Political Science Professor Academic Policies and Recent Trends Believe It or Not Play The Powerball. Sort of! WWW.YUCOMMENTATOR.ORG 2 Editorial Monday, April 16, 2018 - 1 Iyyar 5778 The 2017-2018 Editor-in-Chief DITORIAL AVI STRAUSS Managing Editor E DAVID RUBINSTEIN Senior News Editor A Positive Development but the SHOSHY CIMENT Junior News Editors Wrong Solution BEN STRACHMAN YOSSI ZIMILOVER By Avi Strauss student congregants. But the main minyan in Glueck has Senior Opinions Editor never been advertised as the “frummest” minyan by any BENJAMIN KOSLOWE The Friday, March 23 announcement that, starting next YU communication, and the Rubin Shul minyan, which Junior Opinions Editor semester, a new Wilf campus Shabbat minyan will be added runs concurrently with Glueck, is not labeled as “short and SAMUEL GELMAN where “women and men alike may deliver divrei [T]orah sweet” for students looking to fulfill their obligation and then go to kiddush. And this makes sense. An institution Senior Features Editor after services” is a welcome step in an ongoing saga to bring EITAN LIPSKY campus life more in line with the general Modern Orthodox should let its constituents self-sort, rather than going out of framework of acceptable religious practice. Considering the its way to explicitly label and segregate its parallel options. Junior Features Editors wide array of Shabbat morning minyan choices, and the Yet, the recent statement clearly delineates that, by some LILLY GELMAN significant Rabbinic and communal backing of the practice vague notion of conceptualization, students who attend NECHAMA LOWY of allowing women to deliver a dvar Torah at the conclusion this “new” minyan will be participating in services that Senior Business Editor don’t actually align with what the rest of the student body NOAM ZOLTY is doing. Instead of just acknowledging that there should Junior Business Editor “IT IS A SOLUTION THAT TACITLY be options for the wide tent that is YU’s orthodoxy, we are being directed to pick a side. AKIVA FRISHMAN SUPPORTS THE OPPORTUNITY This is most troublesome to the casual Klein @9 minyan- Senior Layout Editor FOR WOMEN TO SPEAK, BUT goer. Until now, a typical Shabbat morning in the Klein beit SHIRA FEEN midrash featured a healthy cross-section of the Wilf student Junior Layout Editor ONLY IN A SETTING THAT IS body, with guys wearing clothing from black and white to AVI HIRSCH SPATIALLY AND IDEOLOGICALLY the full spectrum of the color wheel, and spanning a wide Senior Programmer range of intellectual and spiritual leanings, all together in MICHAEL PERES SET APART FROM ‘THE YESHIVA one unified setting. Moreover, the minyan has been hugely successful, built and supported by student leaders for two Junior Programmer MINYANIM.’ IT IS A SOLUTION THAT years, regularly gathering a small crowd, and even filling the JUSTIN SAFIER KNOWINGLY WELCOMES CAMPUS seats of the Klein beit midrash on occasion. Senior Business Manager The announcement itself is framed falsely. We cannot JACK GANCHROW BIFURCATION AND SEGREGATION.” pretend that this decision was solely the result of “student Junior Business Managers feedback,” nor should we be naïve that Dean Nissel was SAMUEL KATZ really the one responsible for drafting and publishing it. A YONA SPLAVER of services, it is welcoming to see Yeshiva University change month of criticism from communal lay leaders and alumni, to better reflect the movement of Judaism it represents. several of whom reached out directly to The Commentator Layout Editors I realize that RIETS and YU represent both a diverse for clarification on the matter, surely played a major role in DANIEL ELIAS rabbinical and student body and that changing the status this decision. To pretend otherwise is silly. DASI KORN quo would naturally be a sensitive topic, but this solution Further, the statement was a missed opportunity for DAHLIA LAURY is wrongheaded and misguided. Instead of owning up to the leadership of this institution to affirmatively state RACHEL LOFFMAN and fixing a misunderstanding, the solution creates another general support for halachically appropriate women’s NETAH OSONA space for a minyan nearly identical to Klein @9, one which participation in services. The announcement should have CHLOE RYNHOLD will be administratively distinguished from the rest of come from either the RIETS administration, who instituted Staff Writers the Wilf campus.
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