TJW: Plans by Touro College to open a Jewish-sponsored medical school in New Jersey have moved a step closer? with the approval last month of the New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners.

Bernard Lander, founder and president of Touro, said the $50 million school, to be known as Touro University College of Medicine, must now win accreditation from the American Medical Association�s Liaison Committee on Medical Education. The school would be located in a 75,000 square-foot building in Florham Park, N.J. Tentative plans call for the school to enroll 100 students in each class beginning as early as September 2007.

The school would be the first in the Garden State not financed primarily by public funds and it would be the second Jewish-sponsored medical school in the country. Yeshiva University�s Albert Einstein College of Medicine is the first.