Richard M. Joel, JD

President
212.960.5300 | president@yu.edu  

Norman Lamm, PhD

Chancellor
212.960.0280 | nlamm@yu.edu 

Rabbi Norman Lamm—chancellor of Yeshiva University and a distinguished philosopher, teacher, spiritual leader and author—was elected president of the University in August 1976, succeeding Dr. Samuel Belkin and Dr. Bernard Revel. He was the University's third president and the first native-born American to head the nation's oldest and most comprehensive institution of higher learning under Jewish auspices.

Rabbi Lamm has gained wide recognition for his writings and discourses on interpretation of Jewish philosophy and law, especially in relation to problems involving science, technology and philosophy in the modern world. He has authored 10 books, including The Religious Thought of Hasidism: Text and Commentary, which won the coveted 1999 Jewish Book Award in Jewish Thought. Rabbi Lamm has edited or co-edited more than 20 volumes, including The Library of Jewish Law and Ethics. He was the founder and first editor of Tradition; associate editor of Hadarom, a journal of Jewish law; and founder of the Torah U-Madda Journal.

For 17 years preceding his election as president, Rabbi Lamm served on the Yeshiva University faculty, culminating in his appointment as the Erna and Jakob Michael Professor of Jewish Philosophy in 1966. He has also been the spiritual leader of the Jewish Center in Manhattan; rabbi of Congregation Kodimoh in Springfield, MA; and assistant rabbi at New York City's Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun.

Morton Lowengrub, PhD

Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
212.960.5217 | lowengru@yu.edu 

A serious scholar and professor of mathematics and leader of the Yeshiva University faculty and deans since 1999, Morton Lowengrub, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, has had a profound impact on the academic enterprise of Yeshiva University as its chief academic officer.

A graduate of NYU, Dr. Lowengrub also holds a master's degree from California Institute of Technology and a doctorate in mathematics from Duke University. He joined the Indiana University faculty in 1967 and held a series of administrative positions, including chairman of the mathematics department, dean for research and graduate development, and director of the Institute of Advanced Study. He was named dean of the 27,000-student College of Arts and Sciences in 1988.

Dr. Lowengrub has written or co-authored several books and monographs and a number of scholarly articles in the field of applied mathematics dealing with mathematical theory of elasticity, mixed boundary value problems and integral equations. He has also held several prestigious fellowships and won a series of awards for excellence in teaching and research.

As vice president for academic affairs at YU, he was responsible for overseeing and coordinating academic programs at YU's three undergraduate and six graduate schools. Academic programming and faculty have significantly broadened under his stewardship.

Rabbi Kenneth Brander, MA

The David Mitzner Dean of the Center for the Jewish Future
212.960.5263 | brander@yu.edu 

Rabbi Kenneth Brander is the inaugural dean of the Center for the Jewish Future (CJF) at Yeshiva University. The CJF shapes, enriches and inspires the contemporary Jewish community by convening the resources of the University. It does so by infusing the student body with the spirit of leadership and a sense of Klal Yisrael. The CJF serves to build, cultivate and support communities, rabbinic and lay leaders, and individuals. Furthermore, it is creating a global movement that promotes the values of the University.

Rabbi Brander is rabbi emeritus of the Boca Raton Synagogue, founding dean of the Boca Raton Community Kollel and founder of the Weinbaum Yeshiva High School of Broward and Palm Beach counties. During his 14 years of service to that community, he oversaw its explosive growth from 60 families to some 600 families.

A 1984 alumnus of Yeshiva College, Rabbi Brander received his ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) in 1986. At RIETS, he had the distinction of serving as personal aide to the esteemed Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. He also received special ordination from Machon Puah, a center of medical ethics in Israel, and from former Chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu in the field of medical ethics. He is currently a PhD candidate in general philosophy at Florida Atlantic University.

Rabbi Zevulun Charlop, MA

Dean Emeritus and Special Advisor on Yeshiva Affairs
212.960.5344 | charlop@yu.edu 

Rabbi Zevulun Charlop, dean emeritus of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) and special advisor on Yeshiva affairs, is an authority on Torah and Talmud and a lecturer in American history. He has authored numerous scholarly essays, including ''The Making of Orthodox Rabbis'' in Encyclopedia Judaica and ''G-d in History and Halakha from the Perspective of American History.''

A spiritual leader of Young Israel of Mosholu Parkway in the Bronx, NY, Rabbi Charlop has served as president of the American Committee for the United Charities in Israel, the General Israel Orphans Home for Girls in Jerusalem and the National Council of Young Israel Rabbis.

In May 2008, Rabbi Charlop received the University's Presidential Medallion in recognition of his stewardship of RIETS. Under his distinguished leadership of more than 35 years, the seminary experienced enormous growth, graduating thousands of rabbis, educators and Jewish scholars.

Rabbi Charlop serves as one of RIETS' masmichim [those who administer ordination exams] and maintains his special relationship with the Kollelei Elyon. He is editor of three novellae on Torah and Talmud by his late father, the noted Rabbi Jechiel Michael Charlop.

Herbert Dobrinsky, EdD

Vice President for University Affairs
212.960.0850 | dobrinsk@yu.edu 

Born in Montreal, Rabbi Dr. Herbert Dobrinsky came to New York City in 1948 to attend the third year of high school at the Yeshiva University High School for Boys/Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy. He graduated from Yeshiva College in 1954 and was ordained at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) in 1957. Dr. Dobrinsky also holds a master's degree and a doctoral degree in education from the University's Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology.

Following five years as a rabbi at Beth Israel Synagogue in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Dr. Dobrinsky joined Yeshiva University in 1962 as associate director of the Community Service Division at RIETS. He was named vice president for university affairs in 1981, following 19 years of service to the institution in numerous positions, including director of rabbinic placement for nine years.

Dr. Dobrinsky's outstanding achievements as a scholar, educator, administrator and communal leader include being co-founder with the late Haham, Rabbi Dr. Solomon Gaon of the Sephardic Studies Program and the Sephardic Community Activities Program at the University, aimed at preserving the rich Sephardic Jewish heritage of North America. He was also co-founder of the American Society of Sephardic Studies and served as vice president of programming for the society. He is the author of A Treasury of Sephardic Laws and Customs. He also helped establish the University's Holocaust Studies Program and has been honored several times within the University and RIETS.

During his years of service to the University, Dr. Dobrinsky has traveled and lectured throughout the United States, Canada, Central America, England and Israel. He has visited more than 100 communities to gain firsthand insight into their needs. He also directed the initial stages of the University's $100-million Century Campaign.

Daniel T. Forman, MS

Vice President for Institutional Advancement
212.960.0863 | forman@yu.edu 

Since 1995, Dan Forman, vice president for institutional advancement, has been responsible for the capital and annual campaigns for the University and its undergraduate and graduate schools.

Prior to joining the University, Forman was executive director of the UJA-Federation Capital Campaign and its principal gifts from 1983 to 1995. He was responsible for planning and implementing UJA-Federation's historic $1.2 billion Capital Campaign and managing the $80 million principal gifts portion of its $135 million annual campaign.

Forman has been an adjunct professor on strategic planning and fundraising at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, Executive Institute for Not-for-Profit Management; the New School of Social Research; Wurzweiler School of Social Work; Marymount College; UJA-Federation's Weiner Center and Muehlstein Institute for Jewish Professional Leadership. Additionally, he has been a field instructor and supervisor at Yeshiva University, Boston University, Fordham University, Brandeis University and Lesley College.

Forman graduated summa cum laude from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1974 with bachelor's degrees in history, photography and social work. He obtained a master's degree in social work from Boston University in 1976 with a concentration in administration and group work. He also graduated from Columbia University Graduate School of Business, Executive Institute for Not-for-Profit Management, in 1981.

Forman has served or is currently serving on the boards of the Nesiya Institute, Fort Hill Association, Housing Action Council and Congregation Kol Ami.

J. Michael Gower, MBA

Vice President for Business Affairs and CFO
212.960.5475 | gower@yu.edu 

J. Michael Gower, vice president for business affairs and chief financial officer, came to Yeshiva University from the University of Vermont, where he served as vice president for finance and administration. He has extensive experience in university and medical school financial and business leadership, financing, and systems development.

The great part of his career was spent at Duke University, where he received his bachelor's degree as well as an MBA from Duke's Fuqua School of Business.

Gower received the 2008 Professional Development Award from the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO), which recognizes individual who have made notable contributions to NACUBO's professional development activities and to the association's publications program.

Josh Joseph, MA

Vice President and Chief of Staff
212.960.5300 | josh.joseph@yu.edu 

Rabbi Josh Joseph is the Vice President of Yeshiva University and the Chief of Staff to President Richard M. Joel. In addition to working with administration, academic, and lay leadership and managing the Office of the President, he directs YU’s leadership incubator, the Presidential Fellowship in University and Community Leadership, as well as several task forces focused on fostering creativity and innovation to the University.

A native of Montreal, Josh completed his undergraduate degree in Diplomatic History with honors at the University of Pennsylvania. He received rabbinic ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and simultaneously earned a Master’s in Jewish Philosophy at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies. Josh also completed fellowships at Harvard’s Institute of Higher Education and NYU’s Wagner School of Public Administration, sponsored by the Muehlstein Foundation and UJA Federation NY.

Before his promotion to Vice President and Chief of Staff, Josh served as Director of Special Projects for Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future where he further developed his passion for Jewish social entrepreneurship that informs his daily work. Prior to his work at YU, Josh worked as a financial trader on Wall Street, a pulpit rabbi, and served as the Executive Director of the Orthodox Caucus.

Josh has spoken across the United States, Canada, and Israel on a variety of topics, including leadership, social entrepreneurship, creativity, 21^st century education and Jewish family values. 

Andrew J. Lauer, Esq., JD, LLM

Vice President for Legal Affairs, Secretary and General Counsel
212.960.0051 | andrewlauer@yu.edu 

Andrew ''Avi'' Lauer serves as Yeshiva University's vice president for legal affairs, secretary and general counsel. In this capacity, he is responsible for all legal matters pertaining to Yeshiva University and its affiliates within the United States and abroad. He also serves as counsel to President Richard M. Joel.

Prior to his appointment at Yeshiva University, Lauer was a partner at the international law firm of Thelen Reid Brown Raysman and Steiner LLP, where he maintained a large and diverse practice while also serving as an active member of Thelen's labor and employment law department. Lauer served as relationship partner to numerous clients in relation to various areas of legal specialty, including corporate, real estate, litigation, technology, outsourcing, bankruptcy, patent and trademark, and he often functioned as outside general counsel to many companies. He also established and maintained an extensive Israel practice at Thelen and worked with many Israeli-owned and/or -affiliated companies and regularly traveled to Israel to meet with his Israeli clients and contacts.

Lauer also has prior professional experience as senior employment counsel in the Office of General Counsel of PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting (PwC Consulting), where he was responsible for all employment-law-related matters affecting the firm and its more than 30,000 employees. In addition, he was responsible for all in-house employment-law- related matters pertaining to the planned IPO and the ultimate sale of PwC Consulting to IBM. Before joining PwC, he served as assistant general counsel of Deloitte & Touche USA, where he was employment counsel to both Deloitte & Touche LLP and Deloitte Consulting L.P.

Lauer was also an assistant district attorney in the Kings County District Attorney's Office in Brooklyn, NY, where he conducted numerous trials and investigations and was assigned to several bureaus, including the elite Trial Cadre unit of the Homicide Bureau.

Involved in numerous community causes, Lauer serves and/or has served on the Executive Board of several charitable organizations in the New York area. He is a former president of the Young Israel of Woodmere, former chairman of the Board of Trustees and honorary past-president of the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway, and a member of the Audit Committee and Long Island Board of Ohel Family and Children's Services. He also served as pro bono counsel to several organizations and not-for-profits, including the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

Lauer has published numerous articles and conducted training and seminars in various areas of the law throughout the United States and abroad.

Marc Milstein, MBA

Vice President for Information Technology and CIO
212.960.5233 | mmilstei@yu.edu 

Marc Milstein, vice president for information technology and chief information officer, brings to the University almost 30 years of experience managing information technology in the health care and academic communities. He has executive responsibility for information technology services involving all campuses, including Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and leads the information technology efforts of the University aimed at improving internal and external processes.

Milstein was most recently corporate vice president and chief information officer at Continuum Health Partners, where he managed information systems and telecommunications functions and oversaw an $80-million budget for a five-hospital system in New York City. Previously, he held a number of senior positions nationwide, including at the University of Missouri Health Care, Cambridge Health Alliance and Children's Medical Center of Dallas. He was also a consultant for Coopers & Lybrand and KPMG Peat Marwick, both in Dallas, TX.

Milstein has an MBA in systems management from Baldwin-Wallace College in Cleveland, OH.

Yvonne Ramirez, MBA

Chief Human Resources Officer
718.430.2544 | yvonne.ramirez@einstein.yu.edu 

Yvonne Ramirez is the Chief Human Resources Officer for Yeshiva University.  She joined Yeshiva in 2008 as its first University wide executive responsible for human resources programming for all of its four campuses, including the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law.

Yvonne has more than 30 years of experience as a manager and executive in the human resources field and prior to joining Yeshiva she served as Vice President for Human Resources at Pace University, another multi campus institution with locations in New York City and Westchester county.  Ramirez holds an MBA in executive management.

Jeffrey Rosengarten, BA

Vice President for Administrative Services
212.960.5239 | rosengar@yu.edu 

Jeffrey Rosengarten has been a member of the University's administrative staff since March of 1974. He began his tenure at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine where he directed the outpatient primary care clinics of the affiliated Jacobi Hospital Center. In 1982 Rosengarten arrived at Yeshiva University's Wilf Campus as director of personnel before assuming his current responsibilities for the various supporting services departments across YU's three Manhattan campuses. 

As vice president for administrative services, Rosengarten manages the University’s facilities, capital and infrastructure improvements; campus safety and security; production-mail services; food services; community outreach; and government relations. In his role as campus planner and chair of the University's Committee on Space, Rosengarten has led the effort to create proper "homes" for various schools and programs, including the Yeshiva College Faculty Center, the Azrieli Graduate School in Belfer Hall and the forthcoming Bernard Revel Graduate School offices in Furst Hall. At the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Rosengarten led the master planning program, which included the renovated lobby and Burns Moot Court. At Stern College’s Beren Campus, he directed the creation of a new facade for Stanton Hall, a 7th-floor beis medrash, and the Dean’s Suite and Student Service floor in 215 Lexington Avenue. The 185th Street Plaza project on the Wilf Campus highlights the campus development plan drafted under Rosengarten’s leadership.  

Rosengarten is a 1969 alumnus of Yeshiva University High School for Boys/Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy. He received a BA from Queens College of the City University of New York and attended the New School and Baruch College for graduate studies in management and administration.

Michael Scagnoli, MBA

Executive Director of Communications and Public Affairs

212.960.5400 ext. 5869 | scagnoli@yu.edu

Michael Scagnoli has been with the University’s Office of Communications and Public Affairs for the past five years. He leads a team of communications professionals responsible for reputation management and media relations, branding and graphic identity, messaging and design, news and the YU Web site. He also directs the University’s major ceremonial events, including commencements and convocations, and oversees the campus's Events Office.

Before coming to YU, Scagnoli served as director of operations and concert production, then executive director for the New York Collegium, a performing arts and music education organization.

Scagnoli is a graduate of Trine University in Indiana, where he received the Jannen Renaissance Scholar Award. He holds an MBA in media management from Metropolitan College of New York, where he teaches frequently as an adjunct faculty member in the School of Management.

Allen M. Spiegel, MD

Vice President for Medical Affairs
718.430.2801 | spiegel@aecom.yu.edu 

Allen M. Spiegel, MD, an internationally recognized researcher and endocrinologist, assumed office as dean of Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University on June 1, 2006, and also serves as the University's vice president for medical affairs.

Prior to joining Einstein, Dr. Spiegel was director of the National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive Diseases & Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) at the National Institutes of Health, the culmination of a distinguished 33-year career at the NIH.

A member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Spiegel earned his bachelor's degree summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University in 1967. He received his MD degree cum laude from Harvard Medical School in 1971 and completed his clinical training at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Dr. Spiegel's career began at the NIH in 1973 as a clinical associate in its Endocrinology Training program. He then served as a senior investigator in the Metabolic Disease Branch from 1977 to 1984. In 1985 he was appointed chief of molecular pathophysiology, and then chief of the Metabolic Diseases Branch. In 1990, he was appointed director of the NIDDK's Division of Intramural Research. He served in these various capacities until his appointment as director of the NIDDK in 1999. In this role, he had responsibility for a staff of 625 full-time employees and a $1.7 billion budget.

Dr. Spiegel is a widely renowned physician-scientist and endocrinologist with extensive experience in translational research programs. His research has centered on G-protein-regulated signaling dysfunction in human disease, and his work on signal transduction helped to clarify the genetic basis of several endocrine diseases. He has published extensively, with more than 250 peer-reviewed papers and 100 reviews and book chapters to his name, as well as two books on G proteins.