- List of Yeshiva University people
= 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 adviserNotable Alumni
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Samuel J. Danishefsky , chemist, winner of theWolf 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
*Rabbi Yitzhak Ginzburgh Kabbalist and political ideologue
*Laura Sydell , National Public Radio
*Marc Tannenbaum , rabbi (only Jew to attend Vatican II)
*Raymond Damadian , Pioneer ofMRI technology
* Daniel Kurtzer Former Ambassador to Egypt and Israel
*Paul Reubens , actor (Pee-Wee Herman)
*Avi Munchnick , author and founder ofWorth1000.com (law degree)
*David Macht , pharmacologist
*Louis Henkin , jurist
*David Hartman , rabbi and philosopher
*Ari Shaffir , famous for his show, Amazing Racist
*Nachman Bulman
*Chaim Zimmerman
*Elon Gold - actor and comedian ofStacked fame, attended MTA
*Meir Kahane - attended BTA
*Dr. Jonathan Zizmor - attended MTA
*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.
*Barbara Streisand , actressReferences
* [http://www.benjaminblech.com/bio.html Benjamin Blech bio]
* [http://www.cardozo.yu.edu/life/spring1999/lamm/ an interview with YU president Norman Lamm]
* [http://www.yutorah.org/bio.cfm?teacherID=80153 Herschel Schachter bio]
* [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/dean.html Howard Dean info]
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