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. The list includes alumni, attendees, and faculty members past and present of the university.
Contents
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
- Dr. Seth Farber, rabbi[3]
- David Hartman, rabbi and philosopher
- 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
- Jonathan Rosenblatt, rabbi
- Joseph Telushkin, American rabbi, lecturer, and author
- Moshe Weinberger, Hareidi Rabbi
- Chaim Zimmerman, 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[4][5]
- David Macht, pharmacologist
- Daniel Wise, mathematician
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
- Samuel Belkin
- David Berger[6]
- Benjamin Blech, author (also alumnus)[7][8]
- J. David Bleich[9]
- 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[10]
- Richard Joel, president
- David Alan Johnson
- Ephraim Kanarfogel, historian (also alumnus)
- Arthur Komar
- Norman Lamm, chancellor (also alumnus)[11]
- Bernard Madoff, former Chairman of the Board of Directors, formerTreasurer
- Adam Zachary Newton[12]
- Michael Rosensweig
- Oliver Sacks, neurologist
- Hershel Schachter, rabbi (also alumnus)[13]
- Jacob J. Schachter[14]
- Barry Scheck, lawyer
- Lawrence Schiffman
- Eli Baruch Shulman[15]
- 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[16]
- Dov Zakheim, political adviser
- Solomon Zeitlin
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- ↑ 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."
