Issue 2 November, 2006
 

Appointments >> Rabbi Dr. Yitzchak S. Handel Appointed Dean of Touro College Israel

Rabbi Dr. Yitzchak S. Handel was appointed dean of Touro College Israel (TCI) this past summer. TCI offers baccalaureate and master's level courses at a center headquartered in the Givat Shaul section of Jerusalem. He comes to Touro following a distinguished career as a professor and administrator at Yeshiva University, where he served as the director of the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration from its founding in 1981 until 2003. He was an associate professor at the Azrieli School and at Stern College for Women, Rosh Mesivta at the Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy, Yeshiva University High School from 1967 until this year, and a student guidance and education advisement officer at YU's Yeshiva College.

Rabbi Dr. Handel has been widely published on issues relating
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                              to Jewish education, psychology and Torah. He has been honored by his peers as a recipient of the Bernard Revel Memorial Award in Religion and Religious Education by the Yeshiva College Alumni Association, and has received the Joseph S. and Caroline Gruss Excellent Teacher Award. Recently he was honored as the Educator of the Year at the Yeshiva University High School. He received his Ph.D. in educational psychology from the Ferkauf Graduate School of Yeshiva University and received master's degrees in clinical and school psychology from the City University of New York and in Jewish education from the Ferkauf Graduate School. He received rabbinical ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in 1965. Read more...

Rabbi Moshe D. Krupka Takes Reins as Senior Vice President for College Affairs

In July, Rabbi Moshe D. Krupka joined the senior administration of Touro College as senior vice president for college affairs. He is charged with providing leadership in the creation of new schools nationally and internationally and in the upgrading of existing programs. Rabbi Krupka is serving as a liaison for community affairs and is spearheading new programs and initiatives to increase Touro’s visibility within the Jewish and general communities.

Rabbi Krupka joins Touro College after a lengthy and distinguished tenure at the Orthodox Union, where he served most recently as national executive director. At the Orthodox Union, he played a prominent role in leading an organization that provides hundreds of synagogues and communities across the United States, Canada and Israel with programmatic, administrative and educational support. He was instrumental in expanding the range of the Orthodox Union's programs and services in response to changing conditions in the Jewish world.

Rabbi Krupka received his Semicha (rabbinical ordination) from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, where he was a student of the Rav, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, zt"l. He earned an M.S. in secondary education from YU's David J. Azrieli School of Jewish Education, and received his undergraduate degree from YU’s Yeshiva College.
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