List of Yeshiva University people
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This is a list of notable people associated with Yeshiva University, a private university in New York City.
[edit] Notable Faculty and Staff
- Benjamin Blech, author (also alumnus)
- Shalom Carmy, theologian and Jewish Historian (also alumnus)
- Paul Greengard, Nobel Prize winner
- Elazar Hurvitz, historian
- Richard Joel, president
- Norman Lamm, chancellor (also alumnus)
- Ephraim Kanarfogel, historian (also alumnus)
- Mayer Twersky, rabbi
- Hershel Schachter, rabbi (also alumnus)
- Oliver Sacks, neurologist
- Barry Scheck, lawyer
- Joseph Soloveitchik (deceased), rabbi and talmudist
- Moshe Tendler, rabbi and medical ethics authority (also alumnus)
- Telford Taylor (deceased), lawyer
- Mordechai Willig Rosh Kollel (also alumnus)
- Herman Wouk (former), author
- Dov Zakheim (former), political adviser
[edit] Notable alumni
- Samuel J. Danishefsky, chemist, winner of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 1995/96
- Howard Dean, Democratic politician (medical degree)
- Hillel Furstenberg, mathematician
- Aaron Klein, reporter, radio personality, bestselling author
- Aharon Lichtenstein, Rabbi
- Ralph Lauren, designer, attended MTA
- Alan Dershowitz, attorney, attended BTA
- Sheldon Silver, Speaker of New York State Assembly 1994
- Randi Weingarten, President of the United Federation of Teachers (law degree)
- Olga A. Mendez, Chairwoman of the New York State Senate Labor Committee
- Barbara Olson, television commentator
- Chaim Potok, author
- Josh Saviano, actor (law degree)
- Baruch Goldstein
- Laura Sydell, National Public Radio
- Raymond Damadian, Pioneer of MRI technology
- Daniel Kurtzer, Former Ambassador to Egypt and Israel
- Paul Reubens, actor (Pee-Wee Herman)
- David Macht, pharmacologist
- Louis Henkin, jurist
- David Hartman, rabbi and philosopher
- Nachman Bulman
- Chaim Zimmerman
- Elon Gold, actor and comedian of Stacked fame, attended MTA
- Meir Kahane, attended BTA
- Stan Kasten, President of the Washington Nationals, attended MTA
- Nat Lewin, attorney
- Shalom David Stone, attorney; nominee for the Third US Circuit Court of Appeals
- Moshe Weinberger, Hareidi Rabbi
- Avigdor Miller, Hareidi Rabbi
- Barbra Streisand, actress
