- Joseph B. Soloveitchik
Joseph Ber (Yosef Dov, Yoshe Ber) Soloveitchik (1903 - 1993) was an American Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist and modern Jewish philosopher. He was the descendant of the Lithuanian Jewish Soloveitchik rabbinic dynasty. As "Rosh Yeshiva" of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary at Yeshiva University in New York City, The Rav, as he came to be known, ordained close to 2,000 rabbis over the course of almost half a century.
- Norman Lamm
Rabbi Dr. Norman ("Nachum") Lamm, (born 1927 in Brooklyn, New York, United States), is a major American Modern Orthodox Jewish communal leader. He is presently the Chancellor of Yeshiva University. He was the third President of Yeshiva University (YU), and the first to be born in the USA. He also holds a Ph.D. in Jewish philosophy. He is a disciple of Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik (Modern Orthodoxy's most influential scholar), …
- Bernard Revel
Rabbi Bernard (Dov) Revel (September 17 1885-1940) was an Orthodox rabbi and scholar. He served as the first President of Yeshiva College from 1915 until his death in 1940.
- Richard Joel
Richard M. Joel (b. 1950) is the fourth president of Yeshiva University, a Modern Orthodox Jewish university with a network of schools, colleges, and universities in New York City.
- Max Stern
Max Stern was born in Fulda, Germany and emigrated to America in 1926. He established and built the Hartz Mountain Pet Food Company, which eventually became one of America’s most successful private companies. He helped many charitable organizations both in America and Israel. He was a leading Jewish philanthropist and communal lay leader. Max Stern died in 1982, leaving his son Leonard N. Stern to carry on the family business.
- S. Daniel Abraham
S. Daniel Abraham is an American businessman who was born and raised in Long Beach, New York. He is frequently included in Forbes list of the 400 wealthies Americans, and is notable for his introduction of the Slim-Fast beverage in the late 1970s. A long-time donator to The Democratic Party, Abraham gave $1.5 million to the party and ranked as the number one contributor of soft money to the national parties in 2000.
- Hershel Schachter
Rabbi Hershel Schachter (born 1941) is a Rosh Yeshiva at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), Yeshiva University, in New York City. He is a noted Talmudic scholar and a prominent posek for the kashruth division of the Orthodox Union along with Rabbi Yisroel Belsky. At the age of 22, Rabbi Schachter was appointed as an assistant to the renowned Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik. Rabbi Schachter earned his B.A. from Yeshiva College, …
- Arthur Schneier
Arthur Schneier (b. 1930 in Vienna) is an American rabbi. Arthur Schneier fled in November of 1938 from Vienna to Budapest, where he survived the Holocaust. In 1947 he moved to the United States. Schneier became a Rabbi and was awarded an honorary doctorate in theology at Yeshiva University in New York City. He has been the spiritual leader of the Park East Synagogue since 1962. In 1967, Rabbi Schneier founded Park East Day School as an early childhood facility.
- Samuel Belkin
Rabbi Samuel Belkin (1911-1976) is best known as the second University President of Yeshiva University. He was born in Swislocz, Poland and studied in the yeshivas of Slonim and Mir. He went to the United States in 1929 and received his doctorate (concerned with the writings of Philo) at Brown University in 1935, one of the first awarded for Judaic studies in academia. He then joined the faculty of Yeshiva College, New York, …
- Yosef Blau
Yosef Blau is an Orthodox rabbi. He currently serves as the Mashgiach Ruchani, Director of Religious Guidance at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), Yeshiva University, since 1977. Current president of the Religious Zionists of America (RZA). Rabbi Blau earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1959 from Yeshiva College. He earned a Masters of Science degree at the University's Belfer Graduate School of Science in 1960, …
- Aharon Lichtenstein
Aharon Lichtenstein (born in 1933) is a noted Orthodox Jewish rabbi and rosh yeshiva. Rabbi Lichtenstein was born in France, but grew up in the United States, studied in Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin under Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner. He earned a BA and "semicha" ("rabbinic ordination") at Yeshiva University and a PhD in English Literature at Harvard University, where he studied under Douglas Bush. After serving as Rosh yeshiva at Yeshiva University for several years, …
- J. David Bleich
Rabbi Dr. J. (Judah) David Bleich (born 1936) is an authority on Jewish law and ethics and bioethics. He is a professor of Talmud (Rosh Yeshiva) at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, an affiliate of Yeshiva University, as well as head of its postgraduate institute for the study of Talmudic jurisprudence and family law.
- Jacob Burns
Jacob Burns was a prominent New York attorney specializing in corporate law and estates and trusts. He was a philanthropist, a painter, and a corporate leader. He was a founder and, for several years, chairman of the board of U.S. Vitamin and Pharmaceutical Corp., a public company that merged with Revlon in 1966. Mr. Burns was a member of the Revlon board of directors from 1966 to 1985.
- David Berger
David Berger is a rabbi, a professor of history at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, and a visiting professor at Yeshiva University's Bernard Revel Graduate School. He is most famous for his critique of Chabad messianism. In 2006, Berger accepted his appointment as a full time faculty member at Yeshiva University. He will teach primarily Medieval Jewish history at the graduate level.
- Ellen Schrecker
Ellen Wolf Schrecker, Ph.D. (born August 4, 1938) is a professor of American history at Yeshiva University. She is primarily known for her work in the history of McCarthyism. She graduated "magna cum laude" from Radcliffe College in 1960 and earned her M.A. in 1962 and her doctorate in 1974, both from Harvard University. She has taught at Harvard, Princeton, New York University, the New School for Social Research, and Columbia.
- Shalom Carmy
Rabbi Shalom Carmy is a tenured professor of Jewish Studies and Jewish philosophy at Yeshiva University. A Brooklyn native, he is a prominent Modern Orthodox theologian, historian, and philosopher. He received his B.A. and M.S. from Yeshiva University, and received his rabbinic ordination from its affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. Carmy has written many articles; he is the editor of "Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Thought", …
- Mordechai Willig
Rabbi Mordechai I. Willig (born April 25, 1947 in New York) is a Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University in Washington Heights, Manhattan. His formal title is the "Rabbi Dr. Sol Roth Professor of Talmud and Contemporary Halachah". Rabbi Willig received a B.A. in mathematics in 1968 from Yeshiva College and an M.S. in Jewish history in 1971 from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies. He is also the rabbi at the Young Israel of Riverdale, in Riverdale, …
- Chaim Potok
Rabbi Dr. Chaim Potok (February 17, 1929 - July 23, 2002) was an American author and rabbi. Herman Harold Potok was born in the Bronx to Jewish immigrants from Poland. His parents, Benjamin Max (d. 1958) and Mollie (Friedman) Potok (d. 1985), gave him a Hebrew name, Chaim Tzvi. His Orthodox education taught him Talmud as well as secular studies. He decided to become a writer as a teenager, after reading Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited".
- Saul Berman
Rabbi Saul J. Berman is a prominent member of the Modern Orthodox community. As a rabbi, a scholar, and an educator, Berman has made extensive contributions to the intensification of women's Jewish education, to the role of social ethics in synagogue life, and to the understanding of the applicability of Jewish Law to contemporary society. Rabbi Berman was ordained at Yeshiva University, from which he also received his B.A. and his M.H.L. He completed a degree in law, …
- Joseph Telushkin
Joseph Telushkin (born 1948) is an American Modern Orthodox rabbi, lecturer, and author. Telushkin attended the Yeshivah of Flatbush, was ordained at Yeshiva University, and studied Jewish history at Columbia University. Telushkin serves as a rabbi for the Los Angeles-based Synagogue for the Performing Arts, is an associate of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. He is a former director of education at the Brandeis-Bardin Institute.
- David Hartman
David Hartman (born 1931) is an American rabbi and philosopher of contemporary Judaism and an internationally renowned Jewish author. Born in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, New York, Hartman attended Yeshiva Chaim Berlin and the Lubavitch Yeshiva. In 1953, having studied with Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, he received his rabbinical ordination from Yeshiva University in New York. He continued to study with Rabbi Soloveitchik until 1960, …
- Haym Soloveitchik
Rabbi Dr. Haym Soloveitchik is the only son of Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik. He has worked as a professor at Yeshiva University.
- Gil Student
Rabbi Gil O. Student (born August 8, 1972) is an ordained but non-pulpit serving American Orthodox rabbi. He has written about the interface between Judaism, more specifically Orthodox Judaism, and modern controversial topics. He has also written in opposition to the claim by some Chabad Lubavitch Hasidim that the last Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, may have been the long-awaited Jewish Messiah (i.e. the "Moshiach").
- Leonard N. Stern
Leonard Norman Stern is the Chairman and CEO of the privately owned Hartz Group based in New York City. Additionally, he oversees operations of the extensive Hartz real estate portfolio owned and operated under its Hartz Mountain Industries subsidiary company, of which he also serves as Chairman and CEO. Under his forty plus years of leadership, Hartz Mountain Industries, which began as a hobby for Stern, acquiring land in New Jersey's Meadowlands during the 1950s and 60s, …
- Michael Rosensweig
Rabbi Michael Rosensweig (b. 1955) is a Rosh yeshiva at Yeshiva University.
- Mayer Twersky
Rabbi Mayer E. Twersky (b. October 17, 1960) is one of the Roshei Yeshiva at The Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University. His popular lectures emphasize a combination of penetrating conceptual analyses and deep ethical imperatives. Rabbi Twersky hails from the well-known chasidic family of Chernobyl. He is the younger son of Isadore Twersky and is a distant cousin of Rabbi Abraham Twerski. Other cousins include the Grand Rabbis of Chernobyl, …
- Mark Dratch
Rabbi Mark Dratch is the founder of JSAFE (The Jewish Institute Supporting an Abuse-Free Environment). Rabbi Dratch served as a congregational rabbi for 22 years. He was a Vice President of the Rabbinical Council of America, is chairman of its Task Force on Rabbinic Improprieties and responsible for spearheading and formulating its new policy guidelines for responding to allegations against member rabbis.
- Zvi Sobolofsky
Rabbi Zvi Sobolofsky is a Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University in New York City. Rabbi Sobolofsky studied at Yeshivat Kerem BeYavneh and Yeshiva University; graduating in 1987, he was named valedictorian of the Mazer Yeshiva Program. He then attended the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), finishing in 1990 and proceeded to the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration in 1996.
- Blu Greenberg
Blu Greenberg (born 1936) is an American writer specializing in Modern Orthodox Judaism and women's issues. She is the author of "On Women and Judaism: A View from Tradition" (1981) and "Black Bread: Poems, After the Holocaust" (1994). Greenberg is active in the movement to bridge the gulf between Orthodox Judaism and feminism. In 1997 and 1998, she chaired the first and second International Conference on Feminism and Orthodoxy, …
- Michael Broyde
Michael Broyde is the academic director of the Law and Religion Program at Emory University. He is an Orthodox Jewish rabbi ordained by Yeshiva University, and a scholar of Jewish law currently teaching law at Emory Law School. He serves on the Beth Din of America and is the rabbi of Young Israel of Toco Hills in Atlanta. Broyde is a prolific author and speaker on Jewish law, Mishpat Ivri and Jewish ethics.
- Hershel Reichman
Rabbi Hershel Reichman is a Rosh Yeshiva of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, an affiliate of Yeshiva University. Reichman is known for his patience and lucid teaching style, as well as his ability to give guidance and advice. A loyal student of both Rabbis Moses Feinstein and Joseph Soloveitchik, he has authored five volumes of "Reshimos Shiurim" which are lucid notes and explanations of Rabbi Soloveitchik's lectures on specific sections of the Talmud.
- Fred Rosner
Fred Rosner M.D., FACP is Assistant Dean and professor of medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Professor of Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Director of the Department of Medicine at Queens Hospital Centre. Dr. Rosner is the Chairman of the Medical Ethics Committee of the state of New York. Dr. Rosner has published almost 800 articles including 29 books and 39 chapters in books.
- William Schwartz
William Schwartz (born 1933) is an American law professor and corporate director. He is corporate director of Viacom, a professor of property law at Yeshiva University's Cardozo School of Law, and of counsel to of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, a law firm in New York City. He is a former Vice President for Academic Affairs of Yeshiva University.
- Chaim Soloveitchik
Chaim (Halevi) Soloveitchik, a method of highly exacting and analytical Talmudical study that focuses on precise definition/s and categorization/s of Jewish law as commanded in the Torah with particular emphasis on the legal writings of Maimonides. His primary work was "Chiddushei Rabbeinu Chaim", a volume of insights on Maimonides' Mishnah Torah which often would suggest novel understandings of the Talmud as well.
- Dov S. Zakheim
Dov S. Zakheim is a former official of the United States government. Zakheim earned his bachelor's degree in government from Columbia University in 1970, and his doctorate in economics and politics at St. Antony's College, Oxford University. He has been an adjunct professor at the National War College, Yeshiva University, Columbia University and Trinity College, where he was presidential scholar.
- Arthur Hyman
Professor Arthur Hyman is the Dean of the Bernard Revel Graduate School and the Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy at Yeshiva University, where he has been teaching for the past 38 years. He has also taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary, Yale University, Columbia University and Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
- Jeremy Wieder
Rabbi Jeremy Wieder is a Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University in Washington Heights, Manhattan, NY. His formal title is the "Gwendolyn and Joseph Straus Chair in Talmud". Rabbi Wieder was the first American to win the International Bible Contest, and later graduated summa cum laude from Yeshiva College in 1991 received an M.S. in American Jewish history from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies.
- Steven Bayme
Steven Baym is an essayist and author. Currently (1997) he is National Director of Jewish Communal Affairs at the American Jewish Committee, and holds the rank of Adjunct Professor at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Yeshiva University. Additionally, Baym serves on the faculty of the Wexner Heritage Foundation, and has served frequently as a judge for the National Jewish Book Awards.
- Moshe David Tendler
Rabbi Dr. Moshe David (Dovid) Tendler is the rabbi of The Community Synagogue of Monsey. He is a senior Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University's RIETS and the Rabbi Isaac and Bella Tendler Professor of Jewish Medical Ethics and Professor of Biology at Yeshiva College. He has a Ph.D. in Microbiology and is one of the world's leading experts on Jewish medical ethics. Rabbi Tendler is the son-in-law of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, who was a world renowned posek, i.e., …
- Marc D. Angel
Marc D. Angel (1945-) is Rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel, the historic Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in New York City. Born in Seattle's sephardic community, his ancestors are sephardim from Turkey and Rhodes and grew up speaking Ladino at Home. He received his B.A., M.S., Ph.D., Th.D. "honoris causa" and his rabbinal semicha from Yeshiva University and also has an M.A. in English Literature from the City College of New York.