List of Yeshiva University people

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[edit] 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

[edit] 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
• 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

[edit] References

• Benjamin Blech bio
• an interview with YU president Norman Lamm
• Herschel Schachter bio
• Howard Dean info