List of Yeshiva University people

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 adviser

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
* Rabbi Yitzhak Ginzburgh Kabbalist and political ideologue
* Laura Sydell, National Public Radio
* Marc Tannenbaum, rabbi (only Jew to attend Vatican II)
* Raymond Damadian, Pioneer of MRI technology
* Daniel Kurtzer Former Ambassador to Egypt and Israel
* Paul Reubens, actor (Pee-Wee Herman)
* Avi Munchnick, author and founder of Worth1000.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 of Stacked 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, actress

References

* [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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