Non-Rabbi Named to Lead Yeshiva University
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.
The school, which enrolls 6,300 students, is the nation’s leading modern Orthodox university.
Under a new arrangement, Joel will also be chief executive officer of its affiliated seminary, but Rabbi Norman Lamm, who is retiring as university president after 26 years, will continue as the seminary’s Rosh Yeshiva, supervising the training of Orthodox rabbis.
Joel, 52, is a former associate dean and professor at Yeshiva’s law school and assistant district attorney in New York.
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