Dr. Robert Goldschmidt - Dean of Students

Dr. Robert Goldschmidt - Dean of Students

Author: Meaningful Minute December 4, 2021 Duration: 1:29:34

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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