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Meaningful People

Dr. Robert Goldschmidt - Dean of Students

Meaningful People

Meaningful Minute

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Jewish, Jew, Meaningful, Self-improvement, People, Judaism

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2021

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

As a teenager, Goldschmidt attended Yeshiva Chachmei Tzorfas in Aix-Les-Bains, France, and then learned for a decade at Yeshiva Torah Vadaath where he received rabbinic ordination (smicha).

Dr. Goldschmidt joined Touro College in fall 1974. He has served as a Professor in the Department of Political Science, Dean of Students and Executive Dean of the Lander College of Arts & Sciences, Vice President for Planning and Assessment, and as the Touro College Accreditation Liaison to the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE).

He has been instrumental in securing accreditation for the College in New York, leading it through five major reviews, and its branch campuses in California, Nevada, Moscow, Berlin, and Paris, as well the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine and the Touro College of Pharmacy.

He has many stories of the formation of American Jewry and great tales of his late father-in-law, R' Mosher Scherer ztl.

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0:00.0

Welcome back to another amazing episode of meaningful people podcasts. I'm Yacht Linger.

0:04.9

I'm Nachy Gordon, and if you go to Turro, Landers College, and even if you don't go there.

0:08.8

No, but especially if you do. Especially. This is very exciting. Who do we have on this

0:12.5

way? We have Dean Goldschmidt. That's how I refer to him as. Yeah, Dean Goldschmidt, an

0:16.7

amazing guest. We had a great time with him. So much wisdom. I did not feel like I was in

0:21.8

trouble in a principal's office because guess what? He was in my office. True. What's in trouble?

0:26.4

Not yet. So he was good. And you'll hear about his background, really diverse background and

0:33.5

obviously, I'm not going to spoil it for you, but who his fondle was and just an experience

0:38.6

growing up in America and Yashiva and his influence in America, country. Yeah, the country.

0:44.1

And, and obviously, you know, Turro, one of the largest Jewish colleges out there.

0:50.0

Yeah, it might be the largest. Probably the largest. I think I don't know. Don't fact

0:53.6

track us on that. No fact check us. Y'all can link it on Twitter. Yeah, that's fine. You

0:58.6

can get on my Twitter. Don't give out my email though. Either way, guys, enjoy this episode.

1:05.5

Welcome to the Meaningful People podcast. The podcast where we talk to people who are

1:11.0

meaningful. Yeah, that sounds good. Here we are with Dean Goldschmidt. We're going to see

1:17.8

hopefully knocking I will get into Turro after this interview. Our first Dean, like, yeah,

1:23.0

I feel like I'm in trouble right now. But it's an honor to have you and we want to talk to you

1:28.2

about so much about Turro and your life and your experiences, but if you could take us from the

1:33.4

beginning, where you're born and what you're operating. Well, I like to say when I speak to my

1:39.1

children and my grandchildren that I've had a somewhat unusual childhood and upbringing,

1:45.7

because I grew up in three different countries over two continents.

1:52.1

My parents, Ali Emashalam, survived the war in Romania. They were not deported. That's a separate

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