The Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University announced yesterday that it has received a major gift of $25 million — one of the largest in the College’s 53-year history — from Ruth L. and David S. Gottesman.
The Gottesman gift will support several important research projects at the College of Medicine, most of them to be conducted in the new Michael F. Price Center for Genetic and Translational Medicine/Harold and Muriel Block Research Pavilion, which officially opens in June 2008. The Price Center/Block Research Pavilion is the largest medical research facility to be constructed in the Bronx since Einstein opened in 1955.
Funds from the gift will be allocated as follows: $15 million will be used to establish the Ruth L. and David S. Gottesman Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Research; $7 million will fund The Center for Epigenomics, to be headed by Einstein researcher Dr. John Greally; and $3 million will be used to create The Ruth L. Gottesman Clinical Skills Facility in the soon-to-be renovated Van Etten Building, which Einstein has leased from Jacobi Medical Center as part of its overall expansion. In addition, the gift will support an endowed chair at the Gottesman stem cell institute and a faculty scholar in Epigenomics, as well as the recruitment of top-flight faculty that will bolster Einstein’s already prominent leadership in both of these important fields.
David Gottesman is the founder and senior managing director of the First Manhattan Company, an investment advisory firm. He was Chairman of the Board of Yeshiva University from 1990 to 1998.
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not bad. just a couple of bonez!!
I doubt many of you will agree (or even understand!!!)
Yeshiva University is an oasis in the desert, a rainbow in a sea of black.
Richard Joel, you have done a great job, keep up the good work, we all support you.
One of the largest? How many $25 million gifts could they have had?
Dear Flash,
I do understand.
Do you know that Einstein is trying desperately for years to break away from YU and become an independent institution?
Wonder why?
Maybe it is a dying oasis and a diming rainbow.
I doubt you will agree but you can do your homework.
Dear Charliehall,
I don’t recall citing discrimination or lack of orthodox representation.
I personally know an accomplished M.D. who was asked on his interview why he “wasted” a year in Israel after finishing premed to go learn.
He walked out.
I’m happy you like it and may you have continued success.
However, you know better than I (and I have way to many family members who are faculty and students) that moral and anti chareidi issues and sentiments are pervasive throughout the school. The “ends” – some good and honest M.D.’s, don’t justify the “means” – unacceptable programs and views.
Just google “einstein medical breaking away from Yeshiva Univ” and see what you get.
But here is my main question; (and I mean it seriously and maturely)
Would that have been money better spent had it been given to Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim, Chaim Berlin, The Mir, Rambam, Hanc, Haftr, or even to Riets?
Maybe now they can give a raise to the mashgiach atthe cafeteria.
illini07,
It is interesting that (according to your sources and polls) the modern orthodox alaways know that the orthodox have the modern orthodox on their mind!!
Talk about overload!!
“Engage in anti-modern orthodox sentiment all the time” is narrow minded and small person talk.
BTW, you didn’t answer my question! NU?? What do you think??
Dear Ayin Tov,
there is enough money to go around for all the Yeshivas you mentioned, as well as YU. I think if you would walk around YU today you would not believe how many students wear black hats, and are learning most of the day. Their Rabayyim are equal to, or better than, many of those in the mainstream Yeshivas.
The fact is, that we all need both types of institutions, beleive it or not, YU helps the ‘chareidi also. As can be attested by the fact that when my Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Shmuel Berenbaum ZTL needed a cardiologist, he called the doctor who he thru out of the mir, for going to college, not the 8 th year kollel talmid chochom
What a lie!
Rav Shmuel Berenbaum’s cardiologist was Dr Gelbfish – who until this day continues learning each day in the Yeshiva.
In fact, he has never left the Yeshiva, nor was he ever kicked out.
Please get your facts straight before spreading motzei shem ra about people in the name of the gadol hador.
I alaways get a kick out of people who use their rav, rebbe, Rosh Yeshiva or Mashgiach (especially when their dead) to show or illustrate a point based on nothing or a presumed assumption.
Now for the shocker.
Guess what flash?
I also learned by Rav Berenbaum ZATZA”L and actually used to go to his shmuessen.
Do you know what he said all the time?
MEN MUZ VEREN A GADOL BIYISROEL!!
If he knew that you used him in this context what do you think he would have told you?
I shudder when I think about it.
True bizuy Talmidei Chachamim.
You better do teshuva and ask mechila from him NOW!!!
Charliehall, thanks for your time.
P.S. Hey flash ,were you the guy That stopped showing up after the first week of the z’man?
I don’t know what you mean “I know more about m.o. crowd than you do”. Are you m.o.?
I’m not, but I live around the corner from a m.o. shul and daven shacharis there and boy do they have their hangups (not with me of course) about everything.
“The m.o.’s don’t sit around and gripe”. Heck I will go out on a limb and say that maybe the whole basis and fundamental premis of m.o. is that whatever is done by the orthodox we will do MODERENLY!
They have to be hung up!
I don’t have the time or interest to look all over like for articles like you do, but please stop with your assumptions and broad strkes of accusations that have no basis or grounding.
If you want to be m.o. and appreciate their hashkafah stop living your miserable life and join a m.o. shul
Wishing you much hatzlocho,
shabbat shalom
Dear Ayin Tov, and Fig,
In retrospect I was wrong mentioning Rav Shmuel Berenbaum ZTL Name. Rav Shmuel, treated me like his own son. The fact is that I was trying to explain that the world needs all types of Jews, even the ones that become doctors, and or go to college. I have no problem with the ‘no college policy’ that Rav Shmuel invoked upon his talmidim, including myself. If you ask the cardiologist in question, you will find out that the no college policy pertained to him also,
By the way I spent close to 8 years in the Mirrer Yeshiva, and maintain a very close kesher with them to this day. (By the way I was one of the few who were allowed to go to college)
Flash,
What do you mean “you maintain a close kesher with him to this day”
Der Rosh Hayeshiva is nisht du mit unz nuch!!
Flash, although I didn’t sleep in his basement, I was there many years as well, was in his shiur for well over a year and he treated all of his talmidim like his own. (at least those who shtel tzu)
May his whole mishpacha (and they should remain whole) have a nechama and may he be a meilitz yosher for his family the yeshiva his talmidim and all of klal yiroel.
Hey flash what are you up mto these days?
(Furrowed brow)
The Levi’im were musicians in the Beis HaMikdosh.
Presumably, they were trained.
Which means that at some point in their Levitic careers they stepped out of the beis medresh for music lessons.
If everyone learned all the time, we’d all be dead.
So, some folks become doctors – yay.
Others become grocers – now we can eat.
Others become mechanics, plumbers, and electricians – now we can drive, wash dishes, and have light.
And, perish the thought, some might become artists, who touch our hearts and minds with images, music, or literature. Adults need inspiring stories, too, and the world would be a dismal place if no one ever created a nice painting.
(Brow unfurrowing)
Maybe the Mirrer is the best place for Boy #1. And maybe Einstein is the best place for Boy #2. And maybe there’s a third fellow who wants to specialize in cardio-thoracic medicine and the best place to master that speciality is at State University.
But at the end of the day, after everyone has gone their way, the community will have its rabbonim, its doctors, its tradesmen, and its teachers. And maybe, just maybe, folks will recognize that what’s best for you might not be best for your neighbor.
Ayin Tov,
I know he is in he olam Hamemaes,I visited his kever, and attended the shloshim- But he is still impacting my life- obviously in a positive fashion- I was very close with Rav Klein ZTL and Rav Elya ZTL,and maintain a connection with therebbetzin & the yeshiva office- I am kovea itim, but no matter how much, it was never enough for Reb Shmuel ZTL- I am sure you know what I mean- I don’t want to give away too much more info about myself, as people will guess who I am, and I won’t be able to write contoversial blogs.
Flash,
Continue your good work, and it was a pleasure.
Maybe I’ll see you at the next dinner.
I’ll be wearing a solid off white tie.
Tov
I’ll be wearing the kippa sruga, like I did all my life, including my time in the Bais Medrash
And I’ll have my out of shape straw hat.
Please wash it before you come – last I saw you it was a little dirty.