Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy - Alumni

Alumni

Information is from the annual Elchanite, YUHSB's yearbook.

• Rabbi Emanuel Rackman, (class of 1927), leading 20th century Rabbi.
• Rabbi Mordechai Gifter (class of 1933), Rosh Yeshiva of Telshe yeshiva, Cleveland, Ohio.
• Harry Walker, (class of 1934), founder of leading speakers' bureau, the Harry Walker Agency.
• Bill Mazer (class of 1937), famous American Radio and Television personality.
• Rabbi Nachman Bulman, (class of 1942), leading 20th century Rabbi.
• Rabbi Saul J. Kassin, (class of 1942), Chief Rabbi, of Congregation Shaare Zion and the Community of the Syrian Jews, Brooklyn, NY.
• Rabbi Dr. Yehuda (Leo) Levi, (class of 1942), author, of numerous scholarly works on Jewish Studies and Optics.
• Rabbi Chaim Dov Altusky, (class of 1943), author, series of works on the Talmud, Chiddushei Basra.
• Chaim Potok, (class of 1946), renowned Jewish American author.
• Dr. Yosef H. Yerushalmi, (class of 1948), Jewish historian and Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture and Society; director, Institute for Jewish and Israel Studies at Columbia University.
• Rabbi Dr. Irving Greenberg, (BTA class of 1949), renowned scholar and author.
• Rabbi Meir Kahane, (BTA class of 1949), founder of the Jewish Defense League and former Israeli Knesset member. Controversial activist who was labeled "racist" by the Israeli government.
• Velvel Pasternak (class of 1951), authority on Jewish Music.
• Dr. Fred Rosner (class of 1951), authority on Jewish Law and Medicine.
• Dr. Joel Rosenshein, (class of 1952), founder, Ptach, Orthodox Jewish Special Education service.
• Prof. Nat Lewin, (class of 1953), prominent American lawyer.
• Dr. Mandel Ganchrow, (BTA class of 1954), Orthodox Jewish lay leader.
• Rabbi Harvey Senter, (BTA class of 1954), founder, Kof-K Kosher supervision service.
• Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff, (class of 1955), noted scholar, author and teacher.
• Rabbi Shimon Eider, (BTA class of 1956), prominent Halachic authority.
• Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, (BTA class of 1956), prominent Rabbinic leader in the US and in Israel, founder of Lincoln Square Synagogue and Chief Rabbi of Efrat.
• Rabbi Eli Jacobs, Rabbi in Yeshivas Sha'ar Yoshuv and renowned motivational speaker.
• Rabbi Hershel Schachter, (class of 1958), leading American Orthodox Rosh Yeshiva and Rabbinic authority.
• Dr. Jonathan Zizmor, (class of 1962), dermatologist.
• Rabbi Avrohom Chaim Feuer, (BTA, class of 1964), rabbi, author and lecturer.
• Rabbi Menachem Genack, (class of 1965), CEO of the Orthodox Union Kosher Division.
• Dr. David Shatz, (class of 1965), Professor of Philosophy at Yeshiva University, Associate Professor of Religion at Columbia University, and editor of The Torah u-Madda Journal.
• Rabbi Nachum Sauer, (class of 1965), head of the Kollel of Los Angeles
• Dov S. Zakheim, (BTA class of 1966), former official of the United States government.
• Richard Joel, (class of 1968), president of Yeshiva University.
• Stan Kasten, (class of 1969), president of the Washington Nationals
• Yossi Klein Halevi, (BTA class of 1971), author and journalist.
• Yona Reiss, current Dean of Yeshiva University's RIETS program, and graduate of Yale law
• Rabbi Ephraim Kanarfogel, (class of 1973), scholar of medieval Jewish history and rabbinic literature, and expert in Jewish law.
• Alan Dershowitz, (BTA), lawyer, author, professor at Harvard Law School
• Elon Gold, (MTA), Actor
• Robert J. Avrech, (BTA), noted screenwriter.
• Alexander Kornhauser, Norman Mailer award winning best writer and junior chess Champion of the US.
• Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer and business executive (did not graduate from MTA but attended the school for two years).
• Rabbi Yaakov Jaffe, principal of Maimonides in Brookline, MA.
• Shalom Auslander, writer, Woodstock, NY.