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, Katz School of Science and Health, and

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—offer a dual curriculum inspired by

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'' ("Torah and secular knowledge"), combining academic education with the study of the

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. While the majority of students at the university are of the

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faith, many students, especially at the

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, the

, and the

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, are not Jewish. Yeshiva University is an independent institution chartered by

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. It is accredited by the

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and by several professional agencies.''This is Yeshiva University: 2007–2008'' It is classified among "Doctoral/Professional Universities".

History

Yeshiva University has its roots in the Etz Chaim Yeshiva founded in 1886 on the

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of Manhattan, a

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-style elementary school founded by Eastern European immigrants that offered study of

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along with some secular education, including instruction in English. The rabbinical seminary was chartered in 1897. In the 2020-2021 school year, Yeshiva University enrolled approximately 2,250 undergraduate students, and 2,700 graduate students. It is also home to affiliated high schools—

Yeshiva University High School for Boys The Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy, also known as Yeshiva University High School for Boys (YUHSB), MTA (Manhattan Talmudical Academy) or TMSTA, is an Orthodox Jewish day school (or yeshiva) and the boys' prep school of Yeshiva University (YU) i ...

and Yeshiva University High School for Girls—and the

Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS ) is the rabbinical seminary of Yeshiva University (YU). It is located along Amsterdam Avenue in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Named after Yitzchak Elchanan S ...

(RIETS). It conferred 1,822 degrees in 2007 and offers community service projects serving New York, Jewish communities, the United States and Canada. As of 2015, the university had run an operating deficit for seven consecutive years. In 2014, it lost $84 million, and in 2013, it suffered a loss of $64 million.Moshael Straus Elected Yeshiva U. Board Chief
''The Jewish Daily Forward'', 30 April 2015 In 2012 the

warned the university "that its accreditation may be in jeopardy because of insufficient evidence that the institution is currently in compliance with Standard 10 (Faculty) and Standard 14 (Assessment of Student Learning)." On June 26, 2014, the Middle State Commission on Higher Education, which accredits the university "reaffirmed accreditation", but requested a progress report "evidence that student learning assessment information is used to improve teaching and learning." This was accepted by the commission on November 17, 2016 (wherein the university met the minimum requirements for accreditation). In January 2016, the university disclosed plans to cede almost half of its $1 billion endowment to the

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, as the medical college enters a separate joint venture with

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Presidents

Bernard Revel Bernard (Dov) Revel ( he, ברנרד רבל; September 17, 1885 – December 2, 1940) was an Orthodox rabbi and scholar. He served as the first President of Yeshiva College from 1915 until his death in 1940. The Bernard Revel Graduate School of ...

1915–40 *

Samuel Belkin Samuel Belkin (December 12, 1911 – April 19, 1976) was the second President of Yeshiva University. An American Rabbi and distinguished Torah scholar, he is credited with leading Yeshiva University through a period of substantial expansion. ...

, 1943–75 *

Norman Lamm Norman Lamm (December 19, 1927 – May 31, 2020) 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 ...

, 1976–2003 * Richard M. Joel, 2003–17 *

Ari Berman Ari Berman (born February 1970) is an American-Israeli rabbi and academic administrator who serves as the fifth President of Yeshiva University. Early life and education Berman was raised in Queens, New York and graduated from the Marsha Stern T ...

, 2017–present

Academics

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Schools

The university's academic programs are organized into the following schools: *

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* Katz School of Science and Health *

* Philip and Sarah Belz School of Jewish Music *

Rabbinical and cantorial ordination programs are organized into the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and the Belz School of Jewish Music. ; Graduate and professional schools *

Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law is the law school of Yeshiva University. Located in New York City and founded in 1976, the school is named for Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo. Cardozo graduated its first class in 1979. An LL.M. p ...

* Wurzweiler School of Social Work *

Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration The Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration is a graduate school part of Yeshiva University which specializes in Jewish education and was established in 1945 and named in 1983 for Montréal architect and philanthropist David ...

Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies The Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies was Yeshiva University’s first graduate school. Founded in 1937, it was named for Yeshiva University's first president, Bernard Revel. Its curriculum prepares highly trained teachers, researchers ...

Rankings

The '' U.S. News & World Reports 2020 "America's Best Colleges" ranked Yeshiva University as the 97th best National University. In 2019, Yeshiva University's rank was at 80th. Yeshiva University's

was ranked number 52nd by ''

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'' in 2022. Cardozo ranked high in US News law specialties in Dispute Resolution (4th) and Intellectual Property Law (8th) as of the 2023 rankings. In 2019, ''

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'' ranked Yeshiva University as: No. 99 of all colleges in America, No. 77 in Private Colleges, No. 53 in Research Universities and No. 50 in the Northeast. Nationally, Yeshiva was ranked 140th by the ''Times Higher Education'' World University Rankings, and internationally it is ranked in the 200s by the

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'' and 359th in the world by the QS World University Rankings.

Campuses

The university's main campus, Wilf Campus, is located in the Washington Heights neighborhood of upper Manhattan. Yeshiva University's main office is located within the Wilf Campus, at 500 185th St. A 1928 plan to build a spacious

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campus around several gardens and courtyards was canceled by the

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of 1929 after only one building had been erected. Building continued after the Depression in modern style and by the acquisition of existing neighborhood buildings. Since it was founded in 1886, Yeshiva University has expanded to comprise some twenty colleges, schools, affiliates, centers, and institutions, with several affiliated hospitals and healthcare institutions. It has campuses and facilities in

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( Washington Heights, Murray Hill,

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, and Israel. The

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is a teaching museum and the cultural arm of Yeshiva University. Founded in 1973, Yeshiva University Museum is AAMG accredited and aims to provide a window into Jewish culture around the world and throughout history through multi-disciplinary exhibitions and publications. The university's building in

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, in the

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neighborhood, contains a branch of the rabbinical seminary and an office coordinating the

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Israel Program.

Student life

Student publications

The undergraduate university newspaper is ''The Commentator'', and the newspaper for Stern College is ''The Observer''. Law students at Cardozo also edit and publish five

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. There are numerous other publications on a wide range of topics, both secular and religious, produced by the various councils and academic clubs, along with many official university publications and the university press. The call letters of the student radio station are WYUR, and it is currently an Internet-only station.

LGBTQ+ club controversy and lawsuit

LGBTQ flags at YU's Cardozo School of Law (2022) Yeshiva University has been involved in legal proceedings since April 2021 after it blocked official recognition of a Pride Alliance club for undergraduate LGBTQ+ students and their allies. Controversy over LGBTQ-supportive undergraduate groups has been ongoing since at least 2009, when students created a "Tolerance Club." Its purpose was to promote acceptance of diversity of people within the Yeshiva University community. A founding member said that the group had "determined that the school’s lack of diversity has fostered significant insensitivity to those outside of the mainstream Y.U. culture" and aimed to address that issue. The group's members included undergraduates at both the men's and women's campuses. Although not organized to address LGBTQ issues specifically, the group's promotion of tolerance for sexual and gender diversity generated controversy on the Yeshiva University campus; the student newspaper reported that the administration quashed a panel discussion because they objected to one of the speakers, a gay Orthodox rabbi. This controversy came to a head when the Tolerance Club sponsored a panel discussion entitled "Being Gay in the Orthodox World" in December, 2009. Several hundred people attended this panel discussion. Numerous Jewish news sources covered the panel and the conflict that enveloped the Yeshiva campus in its wake, and the Tolerance Club disbanded in May 2010. A decade later, in 2021, undergraduate students sued the university for refusing to recognize a new

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+ student group, YU Pride Alliance. The university has retained the pro-religious practice law firm

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as its counsel. A New York court ruled in June, 2022 that the university must recognize the undergraduate Pride Alliance. The university appealed to the

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in August, 2022, and a temporary stay was issued by Justice Sotomayor. In a 5–4 decision the full court vacated the stay without prejudice, ruling the NY appeals process was incomplete and thus SCOTUS relief premature. In response, the university put all student clubs on hold in September 2022, pending resolution of their ongoing legal challenges. YU-affiliated

and the

have publicly supported their own students and voiced their disapproval of the University's discrimination and lawsuit. At Cardozo School of Law, there has long been an officially recognized LGBTQ+ student group, and the Graduate School of Psychology also publicly supports the LGBTQ members of their communities. The university announced on October 24, 2022 that they approved "Kol Yisrael Areivim", a new LGBTQ student group. According to the university, this new group will be the "approved traditional Orthodox alternative to its current LGBTQ student group, the YU Pride Alliance". There is still a dispute with the Pride Alliance who claimed the university's action as a stunt and distraction.

Undergraduate clubs and activities

Student groups include the Yeshiva University Dramatics Society (YCDS), which puts on a performance each semester. A student-run group known as the Heights Initiative sponsors several outreach programs that work with the schools and organizations of the Washington Heights community. Student Government is run through YSU, YCSA, SOY-JSC, and SYMS. Additionally, these groups run community events like the annual Hanukkah Concert and a carnival celebrating Israeli Independence Day. The Yeshiva University Medical Ethics Society (MES) is an undergraduate student-run organization of Yeshiva University which was founded by students in the fall of 2005 with the help of the Center for the Jewish Future toward the goal of promoting education and awareness of Jewish medical ethics in the university itself and the community at large. In the first several years, the group hosted a program of on-campus lectures in the field of medical ethics and Halakha (Jewish law). They also host genetic testing events to help combat the high incidence of various genetic diseases in the Jewish community.

Athletics

Yeshiva University includes a number of

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-level sports teams. The teams, nicknamed "The Maccabees", include: men's baseball, basketball, golf, volleyball, wrestling, women's basketball, cross country, fencing, soccer, tennis, and volleyball. Because of Yeshiva's dual curriculum, most of the sports teams practice at night, sometimes even as late as 11:00 pm. A few of the sports teams practice or work out before classes begin at 9:00 am; for example, the men's basketball team routinely practices at 6:00 am. Teams have participated in weekend tournaments outside of New York City, with athletes staying with local families in the area. This took place in Boston with the basketball and fencing teams, and in Hollywood, Florida with the baseball team in 2008. Some international students have participated in NCAA sports, with as many as nine different nationalities representing the school on the sports field.

Baseball

Two members of the Yeshiva Maccabees Baseball team were drafted out of college by professional teams of the Israeli Baseball League. Pitcher Aryeh Rosenbaum celebrated a championship with his team in the IBL's first year.

Basketball

Yeshiva's Men's Basketball team is an annual playoff contender. The most successful eras for Yeshiva basketball in recent history have been at the start and end of the 1990s, as well as the dawn of the 2020s. Banners hang in the Max Stern Athletic Center commemorating seasons from both eras. The 2007–08 season had particular note as Yeshiva was home to the

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's Rookie of the Year. In 2018, the team won the Skyline Conference title in a game against

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, earning its first-ever NCAA berth and considerable media coverage. The current head coach of the team is

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, who has been with the team since 2014. In the 2019–20 season, the men's basketball team's only loss was in the season opener, with the Maccabees going on to win the Skyline Conference championship. This was the second time in three years that the Maccabees made the NCAA Division III Tournament. They won the first two rounds, pushing them into the Sweet Sixteen (3rd round) for the first time in school history. Before they played in the third round, the NCAA tournament was canceled due to COVID-19. After a 7–0 season in 2020–21 also abbreviated by COVID-19, the Maccabees entered the 2021–22 season on a 36-game winning streak, the longest current streak in NCAA men's basketball in any division, and were ranked #2 in the preseason by the Division III basketball website ''D3hoops.com''. During this streak, the team has been featured by media outlets as diverse as

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''. After previous #1 Randolph–Macon lost in overtime, the Maccabees, with their winning streak having reached 44 games, inherited the #1 ranking in the ''D3hoops.com'' poll released on November 29, 2021, marking the first time any Yeshiva team had topped any national poll. The Maccabees received recognition from the ESPN and NBA Twitter accounts for their 50th straight win, the longest winning streak in NCAA Men's Division III Basketball. As of December 29, 2021, the men's basketball team held the then-longest active winning streak in men's college basketball with 50 consecutive wins. On December 30, 2021, the men's basketball team lost their winning streak.

Fencing

One of the most successful teams in Yeshiva University sports history is the fencing team, known as the "Taubermen", named after the coach of the team, Professor Arthur Tauber, who served as the head coach of the team from 1949 through 1985. Olympic gold medalist

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was at one time the coach of the wrestling team.

Tennis

In 2014, the Men's Tennis team won the Skyline Conference championship, becoming the first team in school history to advance to the NCAA tournament in any sport. In 2015, the Men's Tennis team repeated as Skyline Conference champions and went back to the NCAA National Tournament, advancing to the second round. They lost to the defending National Champions Amherst College. In 2016, the Men's Tennis team won the Skyline Conference a third year in a row and advancing to the NCAA D3 National Tennis Tournament again. The Men's Tennis team repeated as Skyline Conference champions in 2017 and 2018 to extend this streak of success to five consecutive NCAA National Tournament appearances.

Other sports

Since 2010, the Men's Cross Country and Men's Volleyball teams have won multiple championships. Many of the Maccabees have gained attention nationwide, like Sam Cohen won an individual championship as well as Capital One Academic honors. Other attention grabbers come from Women's Basketball and Women's Fencing.

NCAA tournament appearances

*Men's Basketball: 2022 (NCAA Tournament First Round) *Men's Basketball: 2020 (NCAA Tournament Third Round) *Men's Basketball: 2018 (NCAA Tournament First Round) *Women's Tennis: 2018 (NCAA Tournament First Round) *Men's Tennis: 2018 (NCAA Tournament Second Round) *Men's Tennis: 2017 (NCAA Tournament Second Round) *Men's Tennis: 2016 (NCAA Tournament First Round) *Men's Tennis: 2015 (NCAA Tournament Second Round) *Men's Tennis: 2014 (NCAA Tournament First Round)

Conference championships

Women's Tennis *2017 – Skyline Conference Champions *1999 – Skyline Conference Champions *1987 – IAC Champions Women's Cross Country *2013 – HVIAC Champions Men's Basketball *2022 – Skyline Conference Champions *2020 – Skyline Conference Champions *2018 – Skyline Conference Champions Men's Tennis *2018 – Skyline Conference Champions *2017 – Skyline Conference Champions *2016 – Skyline Conference Champions *2015 – Skyline Conference Champions *2014 – Skyline Conference Champions *1996 – IAC Champions *1995 – IAC Champions Men's Fencing *1999 – Middle Atlantic College *1996 – IAC Champions *1995 – IAC Champions Men's Cross Country *2014 – HVIAC Champions *2013 – HVIAC Champions *2012 – HVIAC Champions *2011 – HVIAC Champions *2010 – HVIAC Champions Men's Volleyball *2015 – HVIAC Tournament Champions *2014 – HVIAC Tournament Champions *2013 – HVIAC Tournament Champions *2010 – HVIAC Tournament Champions

Notable alumni

* Real-estate developer and architect

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* Professor of Hebrew Literature & Philosophy at Harvard

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(B.A. 1970) * Former Vermont Governor

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(M.D. 1978) * Judge Sandra J. Feuerstein, of the

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(J.D. 1979) * Restaurateur and writer

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(J.D. 2008) * Singer-songwriter

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, author and chief strategist for Prime Minister

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. * Diplomat

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(B.A. 1971) * New York Congresswoman

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(J.D.) * Republican political strategist

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* Law professor

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at the

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(B.A. 1939) * Author

Chaim Potok Chaim Potok (February 17, 1929 – July 23, 2002) was an American author and rabbi. His first book ''The Chosen'' (1967), was listed on ''The New York Times’'' best seller list for 39 weeks and sold more than 3,400,000 copies. Biography H ...

(B.A. 1950) * Baseball executive David Samson (J.D. 1992) * Rabbi and author

Harold M. Schulweis Harold M. Schulweis (April 14, 1925 – December 18, 2014) was an American rabbi and author. He was the longtime spiritual Leader at Valley Beth Shalom in Encino, California. Biography Schulweis was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1925 to secula ...

(B.A. 1945) * Comedian and podcaster

Ari Shaffir Ari David Shaffir (born February 12, 1974) is an American comedian, actor, podcaster, writer, and producer. He produces and hosts the ''Skeptic Tank'' podcast. He also co-hosts the podcast ''Punch Drunk Sports'' with Jayson Thibault and Sam Tri ...

* Former Speaker of the New York State Assembly

Sheldon Silver Sheldon Silver (February 13, 1944 – January 24, 2022) was an American Democratic Party politician, attorney, and convicted felon from New York City who served as speaker of the New York State Assembly from 1994 to 2015. A native of Manhattan' ...

(B.A. 1978) * Businessman Max Stern * National Public Radio host

Laura Sydell Laura Sydell formerly reported on Digital Culture for NPR. She was born in New Jersey, and is a former senior technology reporter for Public Radio International's ''Marketplace'', and a regular reporter on for National Public Radio's ''All Thin ...

(J.D.) * Democratic Party politician

Herbert Tenzer Herbert Tenzer (November 1, 1905 – March 24, 1993) 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. Early li ...

* Professional basketball player

Ryan Turell Ryan Turell (born February 3, 1999) is an American professional basketball player who plays forward for the Motor City Cruise, an affiliate of the NBA's Detroit Pistons in the NBA G League. He played college basketball for Yeshiva University in t ...

(2022) * President of the

United Federation of Teachers The United Federation of Teachers (UFT) is the labor union that represents most teachers in New York City public schools. , there were about 118,000 in-service teachers and 17,000 paraprofessional educators in the union, as well as about 54,000 ...

Randi Weingarten Randi Weingarten (born December 18, 1957)''Who's Who in America'', 2007. is an American labor leader, attorney, and educator. She is president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and a member of the AFL–CIO. She is the former presiden ...

(J.D. 1983) *

Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made h ...

-winning novelist

Herman Wouk Herman Wouk ( ; May 27, 1915 – May 17, 2019) was an American author best known for historical fiction such as ''The Caine Mutiny'' (1951) for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. His other major works include ''The Winds of War'' and ' ...

* Triple Crown-winning racehorse owner

Ahmed Zayat Ahmed Zayat (; ar, أحمد الزيات), (born August 31, 1962) 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 20 ...

(B.A. 1983)

Notable staff

* Adrienne Asch, biotethics scholar *

Paul Greengard Paul Greengard (December 11, 1925 – April 13, 2019) was an American neuroscientist best known for his work on the molecular and cellular function of neurons. In 2000, Greengard, Arvid Carlsson and Eric Kandel were awarded the Nobel Prize for Ph ...

, Nobel Prize winner *

Joe Lieberman Joseph Isadore Lieberman (; born February 24, 1942) is an American politician, lobbyist, and attorney who served as a United States Senate, United States senator from Connecticut from 1989 to 2013. A former member of the Democratic Party (Uni ...

, US Senator *

Oliver Sacks Oliver Wolf Sacks, (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015) was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer. Born in Britain, Sacks received his medical degree in 1958 from The Queen's College, Oxford, before moving to the Uni ...

, British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer *

Red Sarachek Bernard "Red" Sarachek (October 19, 1912 – November 14, 2005) was a basketball coach and athletic director at Yeshiva University in New York City from 1940 to 1969. He was also a mentor of legendary coaches such as Red Holzman (New York Knicks) ...

, basketball coach *

Joseph B. Soloveitchik Joseph Ber Soloveitchik ( he, יוסף דב הלוי סולובייצ׳יק ''Yosef Dov ha-Levi Soloveychik''; February 27, 1903 – April 9, 1993) was a major American Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist, and modern Jewish philosopher. He was a scion ...

, rabbi *

Telford Taylor Telford Taylor (February 24, 1908 – May 23, 1998) was an American lawyer and professor. Taylor was known for his role as lead counsel in the prosecution of war criminals after World War II, his opposition to McCarthyism in the 1950s, and his o ...

, lawyer *

Bob Tufts Robert Malcolm Tufts (November 2, 1955 – October 4, 2019) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher who played for the San Francisco Giants and Kansas City Royals between 1981 and 1983. Early life Tufts was born in Medford, Massac ...

, Major League Baseball pitcher, taught sports marketing *

, Olympic champion in freestyle wrestling, taught wrestling *

, author * James Yates, judge

References

External links

Official website
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