List of Yeshiva University people

This is a list of notable people associated with Yeshiva University, a private university in New York City. The list includes alumni, attendees, and faculty members past and present of the university.

Notable alumni

Academia

David Berger (born 1943), Dean Emeritus at Bernard Revel Graduate School of Judaic Studies
Michael Broyde (born 1964), law professor
Shaye J. D. Cohen (B.A. 1970), Professor of Hebrew Literature & Philosophy at Harvard ^[1]^[2]^[3]
Samuel J. Danishefsky, Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University and the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York
Professor Laurence Dreyfus, Bach Scholar and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford
Ari L. Goldman, Columbia University professor and journalist
Paul Gottfried, former professor at Elizabethtown College
Gary Gruber, author, physicist, testing expert, educator
A. Leo Levin (1919–2015), University of Pennsylvania Law School law professor
Matthew Levitt, counterterrorism expert
Emanuel Rackman (1910–2008), Modern Orthodox rabbi; President of Bar-Ilan University
Michael Rosenak, Israeli philosopher of Jewish education
Leonard Susskind, Felix Bloch professor of physics at Stanford University
Steven Winter, Walter S. Gibbs Professor of Constitutional Law at Wayne State University Law School

Law

Jeff Ballabon, lawyer
Noach Dear (1953–2020), New York Supreme Court judge
Alan Dershowitz, attorney, attended BTA
Sandra J. Feuerstein, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Jason Greenblatt, U.S. Special Representative for International Negotiations, executive vice president and chief legal officer to Donald Trump and The Trump Organization
Nat Lewin, attorney
Abraham David Sofaer, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Shalom David Stone, attorney; nominee for the Third US Circuit Court of Appeals

Government and politics

Howard Dean, Governor of Vermont, physician (medical degree)
Philip Ensler, member of the Alabama House of Representatives
Louis Henkin, jurist
Daniel Kurtzer, former Ambassador to Egypt and Israel
Olga A. Mendez, Chairwoman of the New York State Senate Labor Committee
Grace Meng, Congresswoman from New York (J.D.)
Sheldon Silver, Speaker of New York State Assembly 1994

Arts and media

Elon Gold, actor and comedian of Stacked fame, attended MTA
Eddie Huang, chef, writer, and television personality (J.D. 2008)
Lucy Kaplansky, singer-songwriter
Aaron Klein, reporter, radio personality, author
Yaakov Lemmer, chazzan
Barbara Olson, television commentator
Chaim Potok, author, most notably of The Chosen^[4]
Violet Ramis Stiel, daughter of actor/writer/director Harold Ramis and author of Ghostbuster's Daughter: Life With My Dad Harold Ramis
Josh Saviano, actor
Nachum Segal, radio host
Ari Shaffir, comedian, actor, podcaster, writer, and producer
Laura Sydell, National Public Radio

Religion

Nachman Bulman, rabbi
Shlomo Einhorn, dean of Yavneh Hebrew Academy
Chaim (Howard) Jachter, rabbi
Meir Kahane, Orthodox rabbi and Knesset member, attended BTA
Ezra Labaton, rabbi
Aharon Lichtenstein, rabbi
Haskel Lookstein, rabbi
Dr. Moses Mescheloff, rabbi
Avigdor Miller, Haredi rabbi
Shlomo Riskin, rabbi
Joseph Telushkin, rabbi, lecturer, and author
Moshe David Tendler, rabbi
Moshe Weinberger, Haredi rabbi
Mordechai Willig, rabbi
Chaim Zimmerman, rabbi
Meir Soloveichik, rabbi and public thinker
Hershel Schachter, rabbi
Harold M. Schulweis, rabbi

Medicine and sciences

Raymond Damadian, pioneer of MRI technology
Samuel J. Danishefsky, chemist, winner of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 1995/96
Hillel Furstenberg, mathematician
Rudolph Leibel, medical researcher^[5]^[6]
David Macht, pharmacologist
Daniel Wise, mathematician
Martin L. Yarmush, biomedical engineer and physician

Business

Stan Kasten, President of the Los Angeles Dodgers, attended MTA
Ralph Lauren, designer, attended MTA
Mark Nordlicht, hedge fund manager
David Samson, Miami Marlins executive (J.D. 1992)
Ahmed Zayat, owner of American Pharoah, winner of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes

Other

Ryan Turell (born 1999), basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Randi Weingarten, President of the United Federation of Teachers
Baruch Goldstein, Perpetrator of the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre.

Notable faculty and staff

Danny Ayalon
Samuel Belkin
David Berger^[7]
Saul J. Berman, author
Benjamin Blech, author (also alumnus)^[8]^[9]
J. David Bleich^[10]
Elisheva Carlebach
Shalom Carmy, theologian and Jewish historian (also alumnus)
Pinkhos Churgin (1894-1957), first President of Bar-Ilan University
Bernard Epstein
Louis Feldman
Steven Fine
Joshua Fishman, linguist
Jekuthiel Ginsburg
Jason Greenblatt
Paul Greengard, Nobel Prize winner
Lawrence Hajioff, Judaic studies faculty
Elazar Hurvitz, historian^[11]
Richard Joel, president
David Alan Johnson
Ephraim Kanarfogel, dean and historian (also alumnus)
Arthur Komar
Joy Ladin, Gottesman Chair in English at Stern College for Women (2003-2021)
Norman Lamm, chancellor (also alumnus)^[12]
Joe Lieberman, US Senator
Bernard Madoff, former Chairman & Treasurer of the Board of Directors of the Sy Syms School of Business
Rachel Mesch, scholar of French literature, history, and culture
Marysa Navarro, historian
Adam Zachary Newton^[13]
Michael Rosensweig
Oliver Sacks, neurologist
Hershel Schachter, rabbi (also alumnus)^[14]
Jacob J. Schachter^[15]
Barry Scheck, lawyer
Lawrence Schiffman
Shimon Shkop
Eli Baruch Shulman^[16]
Nahum Slouschz
Joseph B. Soloveitchik, The Rav, (deceased), rabbi and talmudist
Telford Taylor (deceased), lawyer
Moshe Tendler, rabbi and medical ethics authority (also alumnus)
Mayer Twersky, rabbi
Abraham Weiss (1895–1970), professor of Talmud
Mordechai Willig, Rosh Kollel (also alumnus)
Rachel Wischnitzer
Herman Wouk, author
Benjamin Yudin, rabbi^[17]
Dov Zakheim, political adviser
Solomon Zeitlin
Bob Tufts, former MLB pitcher^[18]^[19]^[20]

References

^ Cohen, Shaye J. D. (2005). Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised?: Gender and Covenant in Judaism. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-24458-0.
^ Gewertz, Ken (1 November 2001). "Identity politics in late antiquity". Harvard Gazette.
^ "Cohen, Shaye J.D.". Encyclopaedia Judaica. Encyclopedia.com.
^ Ephross, Peter (June 23, 2002). "Chaim Potok dead at age of 73, was literary pioneer and scholar". Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved August 27, 2010.
^ Shell E (January 1, 2002). "Chapter 4: On the Cutting Edge". The Hungry Gene: The Inside Story of the Obesity Industry. Atlantic Monthly Press. ISBN 978-1422352434.
^ Shell E (January 1, 2002). "Chapter 5: Hunger". The Hungry Gene: The Inside Story of the Obesity Industry. Atlantic Monthly Press. ISBN 978-1422352434.
^ Rabbi David Berger (November 23, 2005). "Rabbi David Berger: Professor of History, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY". Rabbinical Council of America. Archived from the original on December 27, 2009. Retrieved August 27, 2010.
^ Rabbi Benjamin Blech (October 13, 2003). "YU Professor Publishes Ninth Book: Taking Stock: A Spiritual Guide to Rising Above Life's Financial Ups and Downs". Taking Stock. Archived from the original on July 20, 2011. Retrieved August 27, 2010.
^ Benjamin Blech bio Archived 2003-10-24 at the Wayback Machine
^ Herbert and Florence Tenzer Professor of Jewish Law and Ethics. "J. David Bleich". Profile. Cardozo. Archived from the original on June 5, 2010. Retrieved August 27, 2010.
^ "Core Faculty". Bernard Revel, Gradual School of Jewish Studies. Archived from the original on July 5, 2010. Retrieved August 27, 2010.
^ "Interview with YU president Norman Lamm". Archived from the original on 2006-02-12. Retrieved 2005-12-11.
^ Dr. Adam Zachary Newton. "?". Yeshiva University Faculty. Archived from the original on May 27, 2010. Retrieved August 27, 2010.
^ Herschel Schachter bio
^ "Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter University Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought and Senior Scholar at the Center for the Jewish Future at Yeshiva University, New York, NY". Rabbinical Council of America. June 6, 2006. Retrieved August 27, 2010.
^ "Rabbi Eliahu Baruch Shulman of Brooklyn Joins Faculty of Yeshiva University's Yeshiva Program/Mazer School of Talmudic Studies". Yeshiva University News. October 6, 2005. Archived from the original on July 20, 2011. Retrieved August 27, 2010.
^ Rabbi Benjamin Yudin Archived 2007-01-05 at the Wayback Machine, Congregation Shomrei Torah. Retrieved March 27, 2008. "He pursued a dual graduate study program, earning smicha (rabbinic ordination) from Y. U.'s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, as well as a master's degree in Jewish History."
^ "Robert Tufts '77". Princeton Alumni Weekly. 3 February 2020.
^ Diunte, Nick (2019). "Bob Tufts Fought Cancer With An Arsenal Of Brushback Pitches Until His Final Inning". Forbes.
^ "Bob Tufts". www.huffpost.com.

[1] Cohen, Shaye J. D. (2005). Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised?: Gender and Covenant in Judaism. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-24458-0.

[2] Gewertz, Ken (1 November 2001). "Identity politics in late antiquity". Harvard Gazette.

[3] "Cohen, Shaye J.D.". Encyclopaedia Judaica. Encyclopedia.com.

[4] Ephross, Peter (June 23, 2002). "Chaim Potok dead at age of 73, was literary pioneer and scholar". Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved August 27, 2010.

[5] Shell E (January 1, 2002). "Chapter 4: On the Cutting Edge". The Hungry Gene: The Inside Story of the Obesity Industry. Atlantic Monthly Press. ISBN 978-1422352434.

[6] Shell E (January 1, 2002). "Chapter 5: Hunger". The Hungry Gene: The Inside Story of the Obesity Industry. Atlantic Monthly Press. ISBN 978-1422352434.

[7] Rabbi David Berger (November 23, 2005). "Rabbi David Berger: Professor of History, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY". Rabbinical Council of America. Archived from the original on December 27, 2009. Retrieved August 27, 2010.

[8] Rabbi Benjamin Blech (October 13, 2003). "YU Professor Publishes Ninth Book: Taking Stock: A Spiritual Guide to Rising Above Life's Financial Ups and Downs". Taking Stock. Archived from the original on July 20, 2011. Retrieved August 27, 2010.

[9] Benjamin Blech bio Archived 2003-10-24 at the Wayback Machine

[10] Herbert and Florence Tenzer Professor of Jewish Law and Ethics. "J. David Bleich". Profile. Cardozo. Archived from the original on June 5, 2010. Retrieved August 27, 2010.

[11] "Core Faculty". Bernard Revel, Gradual School of Jewish Studies. Archived from the original on July 5, 2010. Retrieved August 27, 2010.

[12] "Interview with YU president Norman Lamm". Archived from the original on 2006-02-12. Retrieved 2005-12-11.

[13] Dr. Adam Zachary Newton. "?". Yeshiva University Faculty. Archived from the original on May 27, 2010. Retrieved August 27, 2010.

[14] Herschel Schachter bio

[15] "Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter University Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought and Senior Scholar at the Center for the Jewish Future at Yeshiva University, New York, NY". Rabbinical Council of America. June 6, 2006. Retrieved August 27, 2010.

[16] "Rabbi Eliahu Baruch Shulman of Brooklyn Joins Faculty of Yeshiva University's Yeshiva Program/Mazer School of Talmudic Studies". Yeshiva University News. October 6, 2005. Archived from the original on July 20, 2011. Retrieved August 27, 2010.

[17] Rabbi Benjamin Yudin Archived 2007-01-05 at the Wayback Machine, Congregation Shomrei Torah. Retrieved March 27, 2008. "He pursued a dual graduate study program, earning smicha (rabbinic ordination) from Y. U.'s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, as well as a master's degree in Jewish History."

[18] "Robert Tufts '77". Princeton Alumni Weekly. 3 February 2020.

[19] Diunte, Nick (2019). "Bob Tufts Fought Cancer With An Arsenal Of Brushback Pitches Until His Final Inning". Forbes.

[20] "Bob Tufts". www.huffpost.com.

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