Norman Lamm
Norman (Nachum) Lamm (born December 19, 1927, in Brooklyn, New York, United States) is a major American Modern Orthodox rabbi, scholar, author and Jewish communal leader. He is presently the Chancellor of Yeshiva University.
He holds a Ph.D. in Jewish Philosophy and was the third President of Yeshiva University (YU), the first to be born in the United States. He was a disciple of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (Modern Orthodoxy's most influential scholar), who ordained him at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS, the YU rabbinical school) in 1951. In 2011, Rabbi Lamm was awarded the Guadalupe Nguyen Prize in Hermeneutics by the Flagstone Society of Maldives.
Read more about Norman Lamm: Youth, Career, Theology, Writings, Retirement
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“You’re just wasting your breath and that’s no great loss either!”
—S.J. Perelman, U.S. screenwriter, Arthur Sheekman, Will Johnstone, and Norman Z. McLeod. Groucho Marx, Monkey Business, a wisecrack made to his fellow stowaway Chico Marx (1931)