Nachum Lamm, known as Norman Lamm, entered the rabbinate just as the second half of the twentieth century was getting underway. In 1951 he was ordained at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary at Yeshiva University (YU), where he had previously earned a degree in chemistry. In 1966 he would go on to complete a PhD in Jewish Philosophy at YU’s Bernard Revel Graduate School. By this point he was already teaching at YU himself. In 1976 he was appointed the institution’s third president, and he would continue as Chancellor and Rosh Yeshiva until his retirement in 2013. His impressive career, as an influential rabbi and public intellectual, is inseparable from the institutionalization of a distinctly American mode of Jewish living and thinking that is now generally referred to as “Modern Orthodoxy.” Rabbi Lamm passed away on May 31. He was 92.
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