Yosef Blau

Yosef Blau

Yosef Blau is an Orthodox rabbi. He currently serves as the Mashgiach ruchani at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. He is also the president of the Religious Zionists of America.

Education

Blau earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1959 from Yeshiva College. He earned a Masters of Science degree at the University's Belfer Graduate School of Science in 1960, and was ordained at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in 1961 by Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik.

Career

In the past, he served as the assistant principal at the Maimonides School in Brookline, Massachusetts, principal at the Hebrew Theological College in Skokie, Illinois, and principal at the Jewish Educational Center in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

In communal life, Blau served as national president of Yavneh, the National Religious Jewish Students Association, and as a member of that organization's National Advisory Board. He also served as vice president of the National Conference of Yeshiva Principals.

Blau is a member of the Rabbinical Council of America and serves on the executive board of the Orthodox Caucus, a national task force addressing practical issues challenging the Jewish world. He is also on the executive commission of the Orthodox Forum and the rabbinic advisory board of USSR, (Students Serving Soviet Jewry). He has lectured and taught Torah around the world.

Blau has also served on the executive board of directors of The Awareness Center, Inc., also known as the Jewish Coalition Against Sexual Abuse/Assault. To this day, Rabbi Yosef Blau continues to be a strong advocate for those who are Jewish survivors of sex crimes.

He was instrumental in several high profile media cases of sexual abuse, including the cases of Baruch Lanner, Mordechai Gafni, Matis Weinberg, and Mordecai Tendler.

Articles and audio tapes on sexual abuse

* [http://www.theawarenesscenter.org/confrontingabuse.html Confronting Abuse In The Orthodox Community]
* [http://www.jofa.org/social.php/community/sexualabuse Abuse of Power] . Audio Tape, Blau, Rabbi Yosef. JOFA 5th International Conference. 2004.
* [http://www.jofa.org/social.php/community/sexualabuse When Authority Breaks Down: The Abuse of Power] . Audio Tape Blau, Yosef . JOFA 5th International Conference, 2004.

External links

* [http://www.yutorah.org/bio.cfm?teacherID=80023 Official Yeshiva University bio]


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