The Center for the Jewish Future is a non-profit center at Yeshiva University.
Their mission is to shape, enrich, and inspire the contemporary Jewish community by convening the resources of Yeshiva University and:
It consists of six divisions:
Rabbi Yaakov Glasser is dean of the Center for the Jewish Future. [1] He succeeds Rabbi Kenneth Brander who was the inaugural dean of the CJF for nine years.
A yeshiva is a Jewish educational institution that focuses on the study of traditional religious texts, primarily the Talmud and the Torah, and halacha. The studying is usually done through daily shiurim as well as in study pairs called chavrusas. Chavrusa-style learning is one of the unique features of the yeshiva.
Modern Orthodox Judaism is a movement within Orthodox Judaism that attempts to synthesize Jewish values and the observance of Jewish law with the secular, modern world.
Norman Lamm was an American Modern Orthodox rabbi, scholar, academic administrator, author, and Jewish community leader. He was the Chancellor of Yeshiva University until he announced his retirement on July 1, 2013.
Torah Umadda is a worldview in Orthodox Judaism concerning the relationship between the secular world and Judaism, and in particular between secular knowledge and Jewish religious knowledge. The resultant mode of Orthodox Judaism is referred to as Centrist Orthodoxy.
Richard M. Joel is a Jewish scholar who was 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. He has written on topics that include Jewish leadership, the dangers and challenges of BDS movement on college campuses and civil discourse.
Yeshiva Torah Vodaath is a yeshiva in the Kensington neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
The Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy, also known as Yeshiva University High School for Boys (YUHSB), MTA or TMSTA, is an Orthodox Jewish day school and the boys' prep school of Yeshiva University (YU) in the Washington Heights neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is the brother school to the Samuel H. Wang Yeshiva University High School for Girls.
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, (RIETS) founded in 1896, is the rabbinical seminary of Yeshiva University. It is located along Amsterdam Avenue in New York City, in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan.
Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School (YCT) is a Open Orthodox yeshiva, founded in 1999 by Rabbi Avi Weiss.
Hershel Schachter is an American Orthodox rabbi, posek and rosh yeshiva (dean) at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), part of Yeshiva University (YU) in New York City.
Mayer E. Twersky is an Orthodox rabbi and one of the roshei yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) of Yeshiva University. He holds the Leib Merkin Distinguished Professorial Chair in Talmud and Jewish Philosophy. His popular lectures emphasize a combination of conceptual analyses and ethical imperatives.
Yosef Blau is an American Orthodox rabbi. He currently serves as the Mashgiach ruchani at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary since 1977. He is also the president of the Religious Zionists of America.
Benjamin Yudin is an American rabbi and important figure in the New Jersey Jewish community.
Yeshiva University, a private university in New York City, with six campuses in New York and one in Israel, was founded in 1886. It is a research university ranked as 45th in the US among national universities by U.S. News & World Report in 2012.
Julius "Julie" Berman is an American attorney and Orthodox rabbi. He is involved in many large Jewish organizations, many of them non-denominational, and has served in key leadership positions.
David Hirsch is a Rosh Yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University in New York City where he holds the Eva, Morris, and Jack K. Rubin Memorial Chair in Rabbinics.
Rabbi Daniel L. Lehmann was the President of the Graduate Theological Union (GTU) in Berkeley, CA from August 1, 2018 until February 2020. Upon his appointment, Lehmann became the first non-Christian to lead the GTU. Previously Lehman served as the eighth president of Hebrew College in Newton, MA and served as the board chair for the Boston Theological Institute.
Nathaniel Helfgot is an American rabbi. He leads Congregation Netivot Shalom of Teaneck, New Jersey, and serves as president of the International Rabbinic Fellowship.