Joel B. Wolowelsky (b. 1945) is a Modern Orthodox thinker and author. He was the dean of faculty at the Yeshivah of Flatbush high school, where he taught Ethics and mathematics. He has written extensively on topics pertaining to the role of women in Judaism and Jewish medical ethics. He served as news editor of Tradition, the Journal of Jewish Thought, and The Young One, published by the Rabbinical Council of America, the Tora u-Madda Journal published by Yeshiva University, and MeOtzer HoRav: Selected Writings of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. He retired in June 2023 and moved to Jerusalem in July.https://www.jpost.com/aliyah/article-807071
Education and career Wolowelsky earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Brooklyn College in 1967, and his MS at Yeshiva University in 1969 and his doctorate in philosophy at New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development in 1979.
He served as chairman of advanced placement studies at Yeshivah of Flatbush.Selya, Rena. "Torah and Madda? Evolution in the Jewish Educational Concept" in Jewish Tradition and the Challenge of Darwinism, G. N. Cantor and Marc Swetlitz, eds., University of Chicago Press, 2006, .
Wolowelsky is on the advisory boards of the Lookstein Center for Jewish Education at Bar-Ilan University, the Boston Initiative for Excellence in Jewish Day Schools, and the Pardes Educators Program in Jerusalem.
He retired in 2023 after 55 years at the Yeshivah of Flatbush and made aliyah to Jerusalem.
Awards Yeshiva University Lifetime Achievement Award in Jewish Education (2010)
Sliffe Award for Distinguished Teaching of Mathematics on the High School Level, Mathematical Association of America (1992)
Advanced Placement Program Outstanding Teacher Award, The College Board (2007)
Selected bibliography Books (ed. with Emanuel Feldman)
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MeOtzer HoRav series (ed. with David Shatz and Reuven Ziegler) (ed. with Eli D. Clark and Reuven Ziegler) (ed. with Reuven Ziegler) (ed. with David Shatz and Reuven Ziegler) (ed. with David Shatz)
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