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
Government, law and politics
- Jeff Ballabon, lawyer
- Howard Dean, Governor of Vermont, physician (medical degree)[1] Howard Dean info]
- Alan Dershowitz, attorney, attended BTA
- Louis Henkin, jurist
- Daniel Kurtzer, former Ambassador to Egypt and Israel
- Nat Lewin, attorney
- 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
- Shalom David Stone, attorney; nominee for the Third US Circuit Court of Appeals
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
- Rabbi David Nesenoff, filmmaker and journalist
- Barbara Olson, television commentator
- Chaim Potok, author, most notably of The Chosen[2]
- Josh Saviano, actor (law degree)
- Nachum Segal, radio host
- Laura Sydell, National Public Radio
Religion
- Nachman Bulman, rabbi
- Meir Kahane, Orthodox rabbi and Knesset member, attended BTA
- Ezra Labaton, rabbi
- Aharon Lichtenstein, rabbi
- Dr. Moses Mescheloff, rabbi
- Avigdor Miller, Hareidi Rabbi
- Shlomo Riskin, rabbi
- Joseph Telushkin, American rabbi, lecturer, and author
- Moshe Weinberger, Hareidi Rabbi
- Chaim Zimmerman, rabbi
- Joseph B. Soloveitchik
- Hershel Schachter
- Mordechai Willig
- Shimon Shkop
- J. David Bleich
- Moshe David Tendler
- Yaakov Neuberger,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[3][4]
- David Macht, pharmacologist
- Daniel Wise, mathematician
- Martin L. Yarmush, biomedical engineer and physician
Business
- James Babendir, Business
- Stan Kasten, President of the Los Angeles Dodgers, attended MTA
- Ralph Lauren, designer, attended MTA
- David Samson, Miami Marlins executive (J.D. 1992)
- Ahmed Zayat, owner of American Pharoah, winner of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes
Academia
- 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
- Gary Gruber, author, physicist, testing expert, educator
- Matthew Levitt, counterterrorism expert
- Michael Rosenak, Israeli philosopher of Jewish education
- Leonard Susskind, Felix Bloch professor of physics at Stanford University
Other
- Baruch Goldstein, Perpetrator of Cave of the Patriarchs massacre
- Randi Weingarten, President of the United Federation of Teachers (law degree)
Notable faculty and staff
- Danny Ayalon
- Samuel Belkin
- David Berger[5]
- Benjamin Blech, author (also alumnus)[6][7]
- J. David Bleich[8]
- Elisheva Carlebach
- Shalom Carmy, theologian and Jewish historian (also alumnus)
- Louis Feldman
- Steven Fine
- Joshua Fishman
- Jekuthiel Ginsburg
- Paul Greengard, Nobel Prize winner
- Elazar Hurvitz, historian[9]
- Richard Joel, president
- David Alan Johnson
- Ephraim Kanarfogel, historian (also alumnus)
- Arthur Komar
- Norman Lamm, chancellor (also alumnus)[10]
- Joe Lieberman
- Bernard Madoff, former Chairman of the Board of Directors, former Treasurer
- Adam Zachary Newton[11]
- Michael Rosensweig
- Oliver Sacks, neurologist
- Hershel Schachter, rabbi (also alumnus)[12]
- Jacob J. Schachter[13]
- Barry Scheck, lawyer
- Lawrence Schiffman
- Eli Baruch Shulman[14]
- Nahum Slouschz
- Joseph Soloveitchik (deceased), rabbi and talmudist
- Telford Taylor (deceased), lawyer
- Moshe Tendler, rabbi and medical ethics authority (also alumnus)
- Mayer Twersky, rabbi
- Mordechai Willig Rosh Kollel (also alumnus)
- Rachel Wischnitzer
- Herman Wouk, author
- Benjamin Yudin[15]
- Dov Zakheim, political adviser
- Solomon Zeitlin
References
- ↑ [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/dean.html
- ↑ 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. 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. Retrieved August 27, 2010.
- ↑ Benjamin Blech bio
- ↑ Herbert and Florence Tenzer Professor of Jewish Law and Ethics. "J. David Bleich". Profile. Cardozo. Retrieved August 27, 2010.
- ↑ "Core Faculty". Bernard Revel, Gradual School of Jewish Studies. Retrieved August 27, 2010.
- ↑ Interview with YU president Norman Lamm
- ↑ Dr. Adam Zachary Newton. "?". Yeshiva University Faculty. 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. Retrieved August 27, 2010.
- ↑ Rabbi Benjamin Yudin, 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."
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