Richard Joel
Richard M. Joel (born 1950) is the fourth president of Yeshiva University (YU), a Modern Orthodox Jewish university with some 7,000 students at its undergraduate and graduate divisions in New York City. In addition, Joel has traveled the globe giving talks on topics of Jewish leadership and identity at numerous universities and Jewish Federations.
Read more about Richard Joel: Academic and Professional Credentials, At Hillel, Investigating Abuse, At Yeshiva University, Personal Life, Maccabeats Performance
Famous quotes containing the words richard and/or joel:
“I am the sanest man who ever lived. But I will not be tortured. I tear torture out of myself by torturing you.”
—David Boehm, and Louis Friedlander. Dr. Richard Vollin (Bela Lugosi)
“They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”
—Bible: Hebrew Isaiah, 2:4.
The words reappear in Micah 4:3, and the reverse injunction is made in Joel 3:10 (”Beat your plowshares into swords ...”)