97 Notable alumni of
Yeshiva University
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Yeshiva University is 582nd in the world, 217th in North America, and 200th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 97 notable alumni from Yeshiva University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Eddie Huang
- Occupations
- lawyerrestaurateurfilm director
- Biography
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Edwyn Charles Huang is an American author, chef, restaurateur, food personality, producer, and former attorney. He was a co-owner of BaoHaus, a gua bao restaurant in the East Village of Lower Manhattan. Huang previously hosted Huang's World for Viceland. His autobiography, Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir, was adapted into the ABC sitcom Fresh Off the Boat, of which he narrated the whole first season.
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Howard Dean
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- physicianpoliticianstockbroker
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Howard Brush Dean III is an American physician, author, consultant, and retired politician who served as the 79th governor of Vermont from 1991 to 2003 and chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from 2005 to 2009. Dean was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2004 presidential election. Later, his implementation of the fifty-state strategy as head of the DNC is credited with the Democratic victories in the 2006 and 2008 elections. Afterward, he became a political commentator and consultant to McKenna Long & Aldridge, a law and lobbying firm.
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Ari Shaffir
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- screenwriterpodcastertelevision actoractor
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Ari David Shaffir is an American comedian, actor, podcaster, writer, and producer. He produced and hosted the Skeptic Tank podcast from 2010 to 2023. He now hosts the podcast "You Be Trippin'" where he discusses travel experiences and stories. He also co-hosts the podcast Punch Drunk Sports with Jayson Thibault and Sam Tripoli, and is a regular guest on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast on the "Protect Our Parks" episodes with Shane Gillis and Mark Normand. He created and previously hosted and produced the This is Not Happening television series, an adaptation of his monthly stand-up show.
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Josh Saviano
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- actortelevision actorlawyer
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Josh Saviano is an American lawyer and former child actor who played Kevin Arnold's best friend, Paul Pfeiffer, in the ABC television show The Wonder Years.
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Herman Wouk
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- diaristscreenwriternovelistwriterscience fiction writer
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Herman Wouk was an American author. He published 15 novels, many of them historical fiction such as The Caine Mutiny (1951), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1952. Other well-known works included The Winds of War and War and Remembrance (historical novels about World War II), the bildungsroman Marjorie Morningstar; and non-fiction such as This Is My God, an explanation of Judaism from a Modern Orthodox perspective, written for Jewish and non-Jewish readers. His books have been translated into 27 languages.
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Barbara Olson
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- journalistlawyer
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Barbara Kay Olson was an American lawyer and conservative television commentator who worked for CNN, Fox News Channel, and several other outlets. She was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77 en route to a taping of Bill Maher's television show Politically Incorrect when it was flown into the Pentagon in the September 11 attacks.
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Grace Meng
- Enrolled in Yeshiva University
- In 2002 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Grace Meng is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for New York's 6th congressional district since 2013. Her district is situated within the New York City borough of Queens; it includes Bayside, East Elmhurst, Elmhurst, Flushing, Forest Hills, Fresh Meadows, Glendale, Jackson Heights, Kew Gardens, Maspeth, Middle Village, Woodside and Rego Park. A member of the Democratic Party, Meng represented the 22nd district in the New York State Assembly from 2009 until 2012. She is the first Asian American to be elected to the United States Congress from New York.
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Chaim Potok
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- playwrightBible translatorwritertranslatorchildren's writer
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Chaim Potok, was an American author, novelist, playwright, editor and rabbi. Among the more than a dozen books he authored, his first novel The Chosen (1967) was listed on The New York Times Best Seller list for 39 weeks and sold more than 3.4 million copies, and was adapted into a well-received 1981 feature film by the same title.
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Ahmed Zayat
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- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Ahmed Zayat is an Egyptian-American businessman and owner of Thoroughbred race horses. He is the CEO of Zayat Stables, LLC, a Thoroughbred horse racing business which bred and owns the 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah. Joe Drape of The New York Times described Zayat as "controversial" and "one of the most successful and flamboyant owners in thoroughbred racing."
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Raymond Vahan Damadian
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- physicistbiophysicistentrepreneurinventorphysician
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Raymond Vahan Damadian was an American physician, medical researcher, and inventor of the first nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) scanning machine.
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Rick Strassman
- Enrolled in Yeshiva University
- 1973-1977 graduated with Doctor of Medicine
- Occupations
- psychiatristwriter
- Biography
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Rick Strassman is an American clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. He has held a fellowship in clinical psychopharmacology research at the University of California San Diego and was Professor of Psychiatry for eleven years at the University of New Mexico. After 20 years of intermission, Strassman was the first person in the United States to undertake human research with psychedelic, hallucinogenic, or entheogenic substances with his research on dimethyltryptamine, also known as DMT. He is also the author of DMT: The Spirit Molecule, which summarizes his academic research into DMT and other experimental studies of it, and includes his own reflections and conclusions based on this research.
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Isaac Ginsburgh
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- rabbi
- Biography
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Yitzchak Feivish Ginsburgh sometimes referred to as "the Malakh" (lit. 'the angel') is an American-born Israeli rabbi affiliated with the Chabad movement. In 1996 he was regarded as one of Chabad's leading authorities on Jewish mysticism. He is the leader of the Derech Chaim ('The Way of Life') Movement and founder of the Gal Einai Institute, which publishes his written works. His students include Charedim (ultra-Orthodoxs), religious Zionists, and Chabad Chassidim, as well as ba'alei teshuvah (penitents). He is currently the president of a number of educational institutions, including the Od Yosef Chai ('Joseph Still Lives') yeshiva in the settlement of Yitzhar in the West Bank. Ginsburgh has lectured in various countries, and throughout Israel. His teachings cover subjects including science, psychology, marital harmony and monarchy in Israel. He has published over 100 books in Hebrew and English, most of which are edited by his students.
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David Azrieli
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- chief executive officerentrepreneurarchitectmanagerbusinessperson
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David Joshua Azrieli CM CQ was an Israeli-Canadian tycoon, real estate developer, architect, and philanthropist. With an estimated net worth of US$3.1 billion in March 2013, he was ranked by Forbes as the ninth-wealthiest Canadian and the 401st wealthiest person overall.
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Yechiel Eckstein
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- writerrabbi
- Biography
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Yechiel Eckstein was an Israeli American rabbi who founded International Fellowship of Christians and Jews in 1983 and led it for many years. The objectives of the organisation were to support Jews in need of financial help, to promote emigration of Jews to Israel, and to support poor soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces. In 2003, it was listed as the second-largest charitable foundation in Israel by Ha'aretz.
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Michael Schudrich
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- historianrabbi
- Biography
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Michael Joseph Schudrich is an American-Polish rabbi and the current Chief Rabbi of Poland. He is the oldest of four children of Rabbi David Schudrich and Doris Goldfarb Schudrich.
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Jason Greenblatt
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 60)
- Enrolled in Yeshiva University
- 1986-1989 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in English
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Jason Dov Greenblatt is an American lawyer. He was the executive vice president and chief legal officer to Donald Trump and The Trump Organization, and his advisor on Israel. In January 2017, he was appointed as an Assistant to the President and Special Representative for International Negotiations by President Donald Trump.
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David L. Katz
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- physicianfood scientist
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David L. Katz is an American physician, nutritionist and writer. He was the founding director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center that was founded at Griffin Hospital in 1998. Katz is the founder of True Health Initiative and is an advocate of plant-predominant diets.
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Hillel Furstenberg
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- university teacherpedagoguemathematician
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Hillel "Harry" Furstenberg is a German-born American-Israeli mathematician and professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and U.S. National Academy of Sciences and a laureate of the Abel Prize and the Wolf Prize in Mathematics. He is known for his application of probability theory and ergodic theory methods to other areas of mathematics, including number theory and Lie groups.
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Akira Endō
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- biochemistuniversity teachermicrobiologistagricultural chemist
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Akira Endo was a Japanese biochemist whose research into the relationship between fungi and cholesterol biosynthesis led to the development of statin drugs, which are some of the best-selling pharmaceuticals in history.
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Aharon Lichtenstein
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- rabbirosh yeshivateacher
- Biography
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Aharon Lichtenstein was an Orthodox rabbi, Israel Prize laureate and rosh yeshiva who was an authority in Jewish law (Halakha).
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Jeff Marx
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- lyricistsongwritercomposer
- Biography
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Jeff Marx is an American composer and lyricist of musicals. He is best known for creating the Broadway musical Avenue Q with collaborator Robert Lopez.
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Shlomo Riskin
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- rabbi
- Biography
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Shlomo Riskin is an Orthodox rabbi, and the founding rabbi of Lincoln Square Synagogue on the Upper West Side of New York City, which he led for 20 years; founding chief rabbi of the Israeli settlement of Efrat in the Israeli-occupied West Bank; former dean of Manhattan Day School in New York City; and founder and Chancellor of the Ohr Torah Stone Institutions, a network of high schools, colleges, and graduate Programs in the United States and Israel.
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Anna Kaplan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Anna Kaplan is an Iranian-American politician from Great Neck, New York. A Democrat, she was a member of the New York State Senate, representing New York's 7th State Senate district, which runs from the North Shore to roughly the central part of Western Nassau County on Long Island. She was a member of the so-called "Long Island Six," a group of six Democrats who represent Long Island in the New York State Senate and often vote as a block. She was elected in 2018 as part of a wave of Democrats who defeated Republican incumbents and brought control of the New York Senate to the Democrats for only the third time since World War II. She lost re-election in 2022 to Jack Martins.
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Ryan Turell
- Enrolled in Yeshiva University
- Studied in 2018-2022
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Ryan K. Turell is an American professional basketball player for Ironi Ness Ziona of the Israeli Basketball Premier League. Turell played college basketball for Yeshiva University in the Skyline Conference. As a senior in 2021–22, he was the highest scorer across all levels of college basketball with 27.1 points per game and was named NABC DIII National Player of the Year, Skyline Conference Player of the Year, and D3hoops.com Region 3 Player of the Year. He led Yeshiva University to one of the longest winning streaks in NCAA Division III men's college basketball history.
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Michael Eisenberg
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Michael Eisenberg is an American-born Israeli businessman, venture capitalist, and author.
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Lucy Kaplansky
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- composersinger-songwritersingersongwriter
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Lucy Kaplansky is an American folk musician based in New York City. Kaplansky has a PhD in clinical psychology from Yeshiva University and plays guitar, mandolin, and piano.
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Shmuly Yanklowitz
- Years
- 1981-.. (age 45)
- Occupations
- rabbi
- Biography
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Shmuly Yanklowitz is an American open orthodox rabbi and activist. In March 2012 and March 2013, Newsweek listed Yanklowitz as one of the 50 most influential rabbis in America.
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Neal Hendel
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- judgeadvocate
- Biography
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Neal Hendel is an American-born Israeli judge. He was the Deputy President of the Supreme Court of Israel.
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Norman Lamm
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- chemistuniversity teachereducatorrabbiJudaic scholar
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Norman Lamm was an American Modern Orthodox rabbi, scholar, academic administrator, author, and Jewish community leader. He was the Chancellor of Yeshiva University until he announced his retirement on July 1, 2013.
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Shlomo Sternberg
- Years
- 1936-2024 (aged 88)
- Occupations
- university teachermathematiciantopologist
- Biography
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Shlomo Zvi Sternberg was an American mathematician known for his work in geometry, particularly symplectic geometry and Lie theory. He also wrote some well-known textbooks.
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Albert L. Lewis
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- writerrabbi
- Biography
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Rabbi Albert L. Lewis was a leading American Conservative rabbi, scholar, and author; President of the Rabbinical Assembly (RA), the international organization of Conservative rabbis; and Vice-President of The World Council of Synagogues. In 2009, the award-winning author, Mitch Albom, wrote about Lewis, his childhood rabbi, as the main character in the non-fiction book, Have a Little Faith. The book, hailed as a story of faith that inspires faith in others, concludes with the eulogy that Albom delivered at Lewis's funeral, on February 12, 2008.
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David Hartman
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- rabbiphilosopher
- Biography
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David Hartman was an American-Israeli leader and philosopher of contemporary Judaism, founder of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, and a Jewish author.
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Moshe Koppel
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- computer scientistJudaic scholar
- Biography
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Moshe Koppel is an American-Israeli computer scientist, Talmud scholar, political activist and the founder of the Kohelet Policy Forum. He is well known for his research on authorship attribution. Together with Shlomo Argamon and Jonathan Schler, he has shown that statistical analysis of word usage in a document can be used to determine an author's gender, age, native language, and personality type.
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Yishai Fleisher
- Occupations
- spokespersonradio personalityopinion journalistpodcasterbroadcaster
- Biography
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Yishai Fleisher serves as the international spokesperson for the Jewish Community of Hebron. He is a podcast host, pro-Israel advocate and political advisor. Fleisher speaks English, Hebrew and Russian and has been described as "a go-to Israel expert for international media."
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Steven Greenberg
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 70)
- Enrolled in Yeshiva University
- Studied philosophy
- Occupations
- theologianrabbiwriter
- Biography
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Steven Greenberg is an American rabbi with a rabbinic ordination from the Orthodox rabbinical seminary of Yeshiva University (RIETS). He is described as the first openly gay Orthodox-ordained Jewish rabbi, since he publicly disclosed he is gay in an article in the Israeli newspaper Maariv in 1999 and participated in a 2001 documentary film about gay men and women raised in the Orthodox Jewish world.
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Marc Schneier
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- rabbi
- Biography
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Marc Schneier is an American rabbi and president of The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding. Schneier previously served as vice-president of the World Jewish Congress.
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Daniel C. Kurtzer
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- diplomat
- Biography
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Daniel Charles Kurtzer is an American former diplomat. He served as U.S. ambassador to Egypt from 1997 to 2001 and as U.S. ambassador to Israel from 2001 to 2005.
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Arthur Schneier
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- rabbi
- Biography
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Arthur Schneier is an Austrian American rabbi and human rights activist. Rabbi Schneier has served for over 50 years as the Senior Rabbi of New York City’s Park East Synagogue. While being honored with the Presidential Citizens Medal from President Bill Clinton in 2001, Rabbi Schneier was described as “a Holocaust survivor who has devoted a lifetime to overcoming forces of hatred and intolerance and set an inspiring example of spiritual leadership by encouraging interfaith dialog and intercultural understanding, as well as promoting the cause of religious freedom around the world.” Schneier is among the oldest pulpit rabbis in the United States.
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Moshe Weinberger
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- rabbi
- Biography
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Rabbi Moshe Weinberger is an American Chasidic rabbi, educator, author, translator, and speaker. He is the founding rabbi of Congregation Aish Kodesh in Woodmere, New York, and former Mashpia/mashgiach ruchani at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS). He has recorded more than 5000 lectures on chasidic thought and philosophy as well as Halakha (Jewish law) and a variety of other topics in Judaism.
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Larry R. Squire
- Years
- 1941-.. (age 85)
- Occupations
- neuroscientistpsychologist
- Biography
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Larry Ryan Squire is an American neuroscientist. He is a professor of psychiatry, neurosciences, and psychology at the University of California, San Diego, and a Senior Research Career Scientist at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Diego. He is an investigator of the neurological bases of memory, which he studies using animal models and human patients with memory impairment.
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Eliezer Waldman
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- politicianrabbi
- Biography
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Eliezer Waldman was an Israeli Orthodox rabbi and politician, who served as a member of the Knesset for Tehiya between 1984 and 1990. Rabbi Waldman was the co-founder and President of Yeshivat Nir Kiryat Arba.
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Leon Charney
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- lawyer
- Biography
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Leon Charney was an American real estate tycoon, attorney, author, philanthropist, political pundit, media personality and Jewish cantor. He lived in Manhattan in New York City, dividing his time between his residences in Tel Aviv and Boca Raton, Florida. In March 2012, Forbes listed Charney as No. 353 among the wealthiest Americans. He was a graduate of Yeshiva University where he participated in demonstrations to free Soviet Jewry, and Brooklyn Law School.
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David Hazony
- Occupations
- journalistwriter
- Biography
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David Yair Hazony is an American-born Israeli writer, translator, and editor. He was the founding editor of The Tower Magazine from 2013 to 2017, and from 2017 to 2020 served as executive director of the Israel Innovation Fund. In 2020 he became an independent editor with Wicked Son Books. Since 2024, he serves as director and senior fellow at the Z3 Institute.
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Michael Aizenman
- Occupations
- mathematicianprofessorphysicist
- Biography
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Michael Aizenman is an American-Israeli mathematician and a physicist at Princeton University, working in the fields of mathematical physics, statistical mechanics, functional analysis and probability theory.
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Herschel Schacter
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- military chaplainrabbi
- Biography
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Herschel Schacter was an American Orthodox rabbi and chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
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Ahron Daum
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- Judaic scholarrabbiwriter
- Biography
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Ahron Daum was an Israeli-born Modern-Orthodox rabbi, educator, author, and former chief rabbi of Frankfurt am Main from 1987 to 1993. From 1995 until his death in 2018, he was a lecturer at the Faculty for Comparative Religion in Antwerp, Belgium.
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Marc D. Angel
- Occupations
- rabbi
- Biography
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Marc D. Angel is an Open Orthodox rabbi and author, Rabbi emeritus of Congregation Shearith Israel, the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in New York City, a position he has held since 1969.
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Nathan Lewin
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Nathan Lewin is an American attorney who has argued many cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Erez Lieberman Aiden
- Occupations
- historiancomputer scientistphilosophermathematicianresearcher
- Biography
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Erez Lieberman Aiden is an American research scientist active in multiple fields related to applied mathematics. He is the Department Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Professor of Biosciences at Rice University, and formerly a fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and visiting faculty member at Google. Using mathematical and computational approaches, he has studied evolution in a range of contexts, including that of networks through evolutionary graph theory and languages in the field of culturomics. He has published scientific articles in a variety of disciplines.
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Scott Jacoby
- Occupations
- DJ producerrecord producersongwriter
- Biography
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Scott Adam Jacoby is an American record producer, songwriter, composer, sound engineer, and recording artist. He is a Grammy Award winner, and has worked with numerous artists in various genres including Coldplay, Cory Henry, Fabolous, Jackie Evancho, Janelle Monáe, Jason Mraz, John Legend, José James, Kane, Laura Izibor, Maiysha, Naturally 7, Rachel Platten, Ronnie Spector, Sia, Stormzy, Vampire Weekend and Vanessa Hudgens. In 2007, he founded his own record label Eusonia Records, and also established Eusonia Studios.
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Erica Brown
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 60)
- Occupations
- biblical scholar
- Biography
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Erica Brown is an American writer and educator who lectures on subjects of Jewish interest. She is a scholar-in-residence for the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, and a consultant to other Jewish organizations. Her "Weekly Jewish Wisdom" column has appeared in The Washington Post. She currently serves as the Vice Provost for Values and Leadership at Yeshiva University and is the founding director of its Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks-Herenstein Center for Values and Leadership.
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Rabbi Yehuda Sarna
- Occupations
- rabbi
- Biography
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Rabbi Yehuda Sarna was the Chief Rabbi of the Moses Ben Maimon Synagogue of the Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. He is also Executive Director of the Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at New York University, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and University Chaplain at NYU.
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Yehuda Ben-Meir
- Occupations
- authorpedagoguelawyeruniversity teacherpsychologist
- Biography
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Yehuda Ben-Meir was an Israeli academic and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the National Religious Party and Gesher – Zionist Religious Centre between 1971 and 1984.
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Rafael Medoff
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Rafael Medoff is an American professor of Jewish history and the founding director of The David Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, which is based in Washington, D.C. and focuses on issues related to America's response to the Holocaust.
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Yakov Nagen
- Occupations
- rabbi
- Biography
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Yakov Meir Nagen is an American-Israeli rabbi and author. Nagen is a leader in interfaith dialogue and in particular interfaith peace initiatives between Judaism and Islam. He is the Director of the Blickle Institute for Interfaith Dialogue, Beit Midrash for Judaism and Humanity and the Ohr Torah Interfaith Center. Nagen also teaches at Yeshivat Otniel and has written extensively about Jewish philosophy and Talmud.
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Ronald A. DePinho
- Enrolled in Yeshiva University
- In 1981 graduated with Doctor of Medicine
- Occupations
- physicianresearcheroncologist
- Biography
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Ronald A. DePinho is an American physician and research scientist. He served as president of MD Anderson Cancer Center from 2011 to 2017. DePinho states that his concern for reducing the burden of cancer suffering became his life goal in 1998, when his father died of colon cancer.
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Saul Berman
- Years
- 1939-.. (age 87)
- Occupations
- rabbi
- Biography
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Saul J. Berman is an American scholar and Modern Orthodox rabbi.
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Gil Student
- Years
- 1972-.. (age 54)
- Occupations
- rabbi
- Biography
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Gil Ofer Student is the former Book Editor of the Orthodox Union's Jewish Action magazine, former Managing Editor of OU Press, and an Orthodox Jewish blogger who writes about the interface between different facets of Judaism, specifically Orthodox Judaism and Modern Orthodox Judaism. He is an ordained non-pulpit serving Orthodox rabbi who serves as a member of the Editorial Committee of the Orthodox Union's Jewish Action magazine and the Director of the Halacha Commission of the Rabbinical Alliance of America. He is currently serving on his third term as a member of the Executive Committee of the Rabbinical Council of America.
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Rachel Hirschfeld
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Rachel Hirschfeld was an animal welfare attorney specializing in the area of animal law, pet trusts, and pet protection agreements. She co-produced and was head producer of productions of many plays on and off-Broadway such as Oleanna and Blithe Spirit.
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Dipankar Chatterji
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Dipankar Chatterji is an Indian molecular biologist and the Honorary Professor at Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, a multidisciplinary research institute under the Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India. He is known for his pioneering research on bacterial transcription. He is a recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize and is an elected fellow of all the major Indian science academies. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2016, for his contributions to science and engineering.
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Michael Rosensweig
- Enrolled in Yeshiva University
- Studied in 1977
- Occupations
- rosh yeshivarabbi
- Biography
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Michael Rosensweig is a Rosh Yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University and the Rosh Kollel of the Beren Kollel Elyon.
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Shmuel Herzfeld
- Occupations
- activistrabbiwriter
- Biography
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Shmuel Herzfeld is an American Orthodox rabbi. He is the Rosh Yeshiva (dean) of Yeshivas Elimelech. He previously served as Senior Rabbi of Ohev Sholom - The National Synagogue in Washington, D.C., and before that as Associate Rabbi at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale. He is a teacher, lecturer, activist, and author.
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Dafna Michaelson Jenet
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dafna Michaelson Jenet is an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the Colorado Senate representing District 21 from her appointment in September of 2019 to her resignation in February of 2026. She previously served in the Colorado House of Representatives representing House District 32 and, prior to redistricting, District 30, which covered a portion of Adams County including parts of Commerce City, Aurora, Brighton, Henderson, Bennett, Keensburg, Strasburg, and Thornton. She was elected to that seat in 2016, unseating Republican incumbent JoAnn Windholz.
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Rudolph Leibel
- Occupations
- geneticistphysician
- Biography
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Rudolph Leibel is the Christopher J. Murphy Professor of Diabetes Research, Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center, and Director of the Division of Molecular Genetics in the Department of Pediatrics. He is also co-director of the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center and executive director of the Russell and Angelica Berrie Program in Cellular Therapy, Co-director of the New York Obesity Research Center and the Columbia University Diabetes and Endocrinology Research Center.
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Ari L. Goldman
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Ari L. Goldman is an American journalist. He is professor of journalism at Columbia University and a former reporter for The New York Times.
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Shlomo-Israel Ben-Meir
- Occupations
- rabbilawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Shlomo-Yisrael Ben-Meir was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset from 1952 until his death.
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Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff
- Occupations
- rabbi
- Biography
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Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff is an Israeli-American professor of rabbinic literature at Yeshiva University's Caroline & Joseph Gruss Institute in Jerusalem.
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Sankar Ghosh
- Occupations
- immunologistresearchermicrobiologist
- Biography
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Sankar Ghosh is an Indian-American immunologist, microbiologist, and biochemist, who is the Chair and Silverstein & Hutt Family Professor of the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Ghosh is best known for his pioneering research on the activation of cellular responses via NF-κB, a transcription factor that plays a critical role in regulating the expression of a large number of genes involved in the mammalian immune system. Ghosh's research led to the first cloning and characterization of NF-κB and IkB proteins, including the demonstration of the role of IkB phosphorylation in the activation of NF-κB.
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Albert Vann
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Albert Vann was an American politician and a member of the New York City Council from Brooklyn, representing the 36th district, which includes parts of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights. He was a Democrat.
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Yosef Bittón
- Born in
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Argentina - Occupations
- Chief Rabbi
- Biography
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Rabbi Yosef Bittón is an Argentinian-born community rabbi and the former Chief Rabbi of Uruguay.
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Gerald Blidstein
- Occupations
- historianJudaic scholaruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Gerald Blidstein was professor emeritus of Jewish philosophy at Israel's Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He was the Israel Prize laureate in Jewish philosophy (2006) and had been a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences since 2007.
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Dov Rosenblatt
- Occupations
- singer-songwritersongwriter
- Biography
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Dov Rosenblatt is an American singer, songwriter, producer, composer, and teacher. Currently based in Nashville, Tennessee, he is best known as the lead singer of the Jewish rock band Blue Fringe, who were credited along with Moshav and Soulfarm with advancing Jewish rock in the early 2000s. He has also been a member of the indie rock bands Fools for April, The Wellspring (with Talia Osteen), and Distant Cousins (with Duvid Swirsky and Ami Kozak). His music has appeared in several films, television shows, and advertisements.
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Faranak Margolese
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Faranak Margolese is an American-Israeli writer, best known as the author of Off the Derech, a book about contemporary assimilation in the Orthodox Jewish world.
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Gilah Kletenik
- Occupations
- rabbi
- Biography
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Gilah Kletenik is an academic and Open Orthodox rabbi.
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Michael Stifelman
- Occupations
- urologistroboticist
- Biography
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Michael D. Stifelman is an American urologist. He is known for his introducing surgical techniques in urology, including developments in robotic partial nephrectomy, the use of near-infrared fluorescence imaging in renal surgery.
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Shalom Carmy
- Occupations
- rabbiphilosopher
- Biography
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Shalom Carmy is an Orthodox rabbi teaching Jewish studies and philosophy at Yeshiva University, where he is Chair of Bible and Jewish philosophy at Yeshiva College and an affiliated scholar at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. He is also Editor Emeritus of Tradition, an Orthodox theological journal, and formerly wrote a regular column in First Things.
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Angela Angel
- Enrolled in Yeshiva University
- In 2004 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Angela Angel is an American politician who represented District 25 in the Maryland House of Delegates from 2015 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, she ran for Congress in Maryland's 4th congressional district in 2022.
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Herbert Tenzer
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Herbert Tenzer was an American Democratic Party politician, who served two terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1965 to 1968. Tenzer was also a lawyer and a philanthropist.
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Mel Alexenberg
- Occupations
- artistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Mel Alexenberg is an American-Israeli artist, art educator, and writer recognized for his pioneering work exploring the intersections of art, science, technology and digital culture. He experimental with digital fine art prints in the 1980s that are in 30 museum collections worldwide, circumglobal cyberangel flights honoring Rembrandt in 1989 and in 2019.
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Malke Bina
- Enrolled in Yeshiva University
- Graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- educator
- Biography
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Malke Bina is an American rabbanit and the founder and first teacher of Matan Women's Institute for Torah Studies. She has a master's degree in Hebrew Bible from Yeshiva University. She is married to a rabbi and is called by the term Rabbanit, which is less common in Modern Orthodox circles. Malke Bina does not consider herself a Rabbi and, at a 2004 conference of Orthodox Jewish Feminists, emphasized her focus on Talmud study. She was interviewed by JOFA in 2006 and serves on its Council of Advisers. She also pioneered women's reading of Megillat Esther on Purim.
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Ng'endo Mwangi
- Years
- 1936-1989 (aged 53)
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Ng'endo Mwangi, also known as Florence Gladwell or Florence Mwangi Mwilu, was Kenya's first woman physician. She set up clinics serving a very large rural population. She was the first Black African woman to attend Smith College, and the first African student at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
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Abraham Jacob Multer
- Enrolled in Yeshiva University
- Studied in 1963
- Occupations
- lawyerjudgepolitician
- Biography
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Abraham Jacob Multer was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician who served ten terms as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York from 1947 to 1967.
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Adam Ferziger
- Occupations
- writerresearcher
- Biography
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Adam S. Ferziger is an American intellectual and social historian whose research focuses on Jewish religious movements and religious responses to secularization and assimilation in modern and contemporary North America, Europe and Israel.
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Richard C Steiner
- Occupations
- linguist
- Biography
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Richard C. Steiner is a Semitist and a scholar of Northwest Semitic languages, Jewish Studies, and Near Eastern texts. His work has focused on texts from as early as the Egyptian Pyramid Texts to as late as medieval biblical interpretation. He is now retired from his position as professor of Semitics at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University in New York City.
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Lexa Roséan
- Occupations
- psychoanalystastrologerdancerwriterpoet
- Biography
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Lexa Roséan, is an American writer, dancer and licensed psychoanalyst as well as a Wiccan high priestess in the neo-Gardnerian Minoan tradition. She lives in New York City.
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Benjamin Yudin
- Years
- 1944-.. (age 82)
- Occupations
- rabbi
- Biography
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Benjamin Yudin is an American rabbi and important figure in the New Jersey Jewish community.
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Sally Shaywitz
- Occupations
- university teacherphysician
- Biography
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Sally Shaywitz is an American physician-scientist who is the Audrey G. Ratner Professor in Learning Development at Yale University. She is the co-founder and co-director of the Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity. Her research provides the framework for modern understanding of dyslexia.
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Eugene Korn
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 79)
- Occupations
- rabbi
- Biography
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Rabbi Doctor Eugene B. Korn is a lecturer, scholar and educator. He lives in Jerusalem and was formerly Academic Director of the Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation (CJCUC) in Jerusalem. He was also co-director of its Institute for Theological Inquiry. Korn was the founding editor of Meorot: A Forum for Modern Orthodox Discourse (successor to The Edah Journal, which he also edited), based at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah in New York City.
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Janina R. Galler
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 77)
- Occupations
- psychiatristchild psychiatristnutritionistepidemiologist
- Biography
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Janina R. Galler is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and Psychiatrist in the Chester M. Pierce MD Division of Global Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. She co-founded the 45-year Barbados Nutrition Study in the Lesser Antilles, in the Americas, with the late Sir Dr. Frank C. Ramsey, who was knighted for their joint efforts in eliminating malnutrition from Barbados. Dr. Galler has served as Director of this study since 1973. The Barbados Nutrition Study is a unique longitudinal study that has shown how the intergenerational legacy of poverty and disadvantage result from early childhood malnutrition and associated childhood adversities. A new facet of her research is its focus on epigenetics, or changes in gene expression that occur without change the structure of DNA. This new work explores potentially reversible mechanisms that explain how early malnutrition alters behavior and health over the life span and across generations.
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David Solomon Weiss
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 73)
- Occupations
- psychologist
- Biography
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David Solomon Weiss is an organizational psychologist and business strategist and author of seven books, including The Leadership Gap, Innovative Intelligence and Leadership-Driven HR.
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Anna Chao Pai
- Years
- 1935-.. (age 91)
- Occupations
- geneticist
- Biography
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Anna Chao Pai is an American geneticist and professor emerita at Montclair State University.
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Ronald J. Ross
- Occupations
- radiologist
- Biography
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Ronald J. Ross is a Cleveland, Ohio radiologist known for research on brain injury in professional and amateur boxers and for the first clinical use of nuclear magnetic resonance imaging on human patients. Ross is also credited with the first use of head and whole body computed tomography imaging (CT) in a private clinical setting in the United States.
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Samuel Schafler
- Occupations
- historianrabbi
- Biography
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Samuel Schafler was a New York-born rabbi, historian, editor and Jewish educator. He was Superintendent of the Board of Jewish Education of Metropolitan Chicago and President of Hebrew College in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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Robyn Klein
- Enrolled in Yeshiva University
- 1986-1993 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- neuroimmunologist
- Biography
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Robyn S. Klein is an American neuroimmunologist as well as the Vice Provost and Associate Dean for Graduate Education at Washington University in St. Louis. Klein is also a professor in the Departments of Medicine, Anatomy & Neurobiology, and Pathology & Immunology. Her research explores the pathogenesis of neuroinflammation in the central nervous system by probing how immune signalling molecules regulate blood brain barrier permeability. Klein is also a fervent advocate for gender equity in STEM, publishing mechanisms to improve gender equity in speakers at conferences, participating nationally on gender equity discussion panels, and through service as the president of the Academic Women’s Network at the Washington University School of Medicine.
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Harold Basch
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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Harold Basch was a professor of chemistry who specialized in computational chemistry.
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Perry Nisen
- Occupations
- biologist
- Biography
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Perry Nisen is an American physician and the former chief executive officer of the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP), and held the Donald Bren Chief Executive Chair.
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Sue Wickner
- Occupations
- geneticistmicrobiologist
- Biography
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Sue Hengren Wickner is an American biochemist and geneticist who is a distinguished investigator and the head of the DNA Molecular Biology section of the National Institutes of Health. Her laboratory is under the National Cancer Institute and is located in the Center for Cancer Research.
