2008 Woodie Awards
Richard Bieler Joins Yeshiva Admin
Pres. Joel Makes Another Senior Appointment
David Stein
Issue date: 2/15/05 Section: News
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In order to expand leadership and service throughout the Jewish community, Yeshiva University has recently appointed Rabbi Richard Bieler as senior executive director of community relations on the Center for the Jewish Future (CJF).
The purpose of CJF is to be a center to mold the Jewish future by expanding Yeshiva's scope past the grounds of its campuses. By creating programs that will train future leaders, as well as reaching out to communities across the United States and in Israel, Yeshiva President Richard M. Joel hopes Yeshiva will be "a university without walls."
As the senior executive director of community affairs, Rabbi Bieler will bring together various modern Orthodox communities in North America. This will be done by setting up community councils of Rabbinical and lay leaders to identify and assist the needs of these communities. Along with this, these councils will help build alumni participation, and help shape future Jewish leaders.
Rabbi Bieler explained that his role at CJF is "very much a part of the new initiative by President Joel to make sure there is a YU presence about the country, both among potential students and alumni."
When The Commentator reached Rabbi Bieler, he was in Los Angeles, where he had met "prospective students, parents of current students, a graduate from the 1970s who has been a professor in biology for over 10 years, benefactors, and community leaders."
Rabbi Bieler explained that his visit to Los Angeles represented his goals at CJF. Along with reaching out to more prospective students, Yeshiva "wants to be more proactive with alumni, and have a relationship that continues after graduation in a serious and intellectually stimulating manner."
The CJF, as Rabbi Bieler views it, is not a disassociated branch of Yeshiva, but a "university-wide mission," where Yeshiva will "focus on the resources of the entire community." Noticeably enthused, Rabbi Bieler outlined a hypothetical lecture series that would feature a professor from Cardozo School of Law discussing the legal ramifications of a certain issue, another from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine analyzing its medical implications, and a third from Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary confronting the issue from an halachic perspective. All three institutions are subsumed by Yeshiva University.
The purpose of CJF is to be a center to mold the Jewish future by expanding Yeshiva's scope past the grounds of its campuses. By creating programs that will train future leaders, as well as reaching out to communities across the United States and in Israel, Yeshiva President Richard M. Joel hopes Yeshiva will be "a university without walls."
As the senior executive director of community affairs, Rabbi Bieler will bring together various modern Orthodox communities in North America. This will be done by setting up community councils of Rabbinical and lay leaders to identify and assist the needs of these communities. Along with this, these councils will help build alumni participation, and help shape future Jewish leaders.
Rabbi Bieler explained that his role at CJF is "very much a part of the new initiative by President Joel to make sure there is a YU presence about the country, both among potential students and alumni."
When The Commentator reached Rabbi Bieler, he was in Los Angeles, where he had met "prospective students, parents of current students, a graduate from the 1970s who has been a professor in biology for over 10 years, benefactors, and community leaders."
Rabbi Bieler explained that his visit to Los Angeles represented his goals at CJF. Along with reaching out to more prospective students, Yeshiva "wants to be more proactive with alumni, and have a relationship that continues after graduation in a serious and intellectually stimulating manner."
The CJF, as Rabbi Bieler views it, is not a disassociated branch of Yeshiva, but a "university-wide mission," where Yeshiva will "focus on the resources of the entire community." Noticeably enthused, Rabbi Bieler outlined a hypothetical lecture series that would feature a professor from Cardozo School of Law discussing the legal ramifications of a certain issue, another from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine analyzing its medical implications, and a third from Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary confronting the issue from an halachic perspective. All three institutions are subsumed by Yeshiva University.