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 was the Chancellor of Yeshiva University till he announced his retirement on July 1, 2013. 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 (One of Orthodoxy's most influential modern scholars), who ordained him at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS, the YU rabbinical school) in 1951.