• Born in Brooklyn, NY in 1927, Dr. Lamm received his elementary and high school education at Yeshiva and Mesivta Torah Vodaath.
  • In 1945, he entered Yeshiva College, where he continued his Jewish learning and undertook a liberal arts program with a major in chemistry. He graduated summa cum laude in 1949 and was class valedictorian.
  • Upon graduation, Dr. Lamm pursued advanced scientific studies at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn while continuing his Judaic studies and rabbinic scholarship.
  • He was ordained as a rabbi by YU’s affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in 1951, and earned a Ph.D. in Jewish philosophy from the University’s Bernard Revel Graduate School in 1966.
  • During the seventeen years preceding his election as president, Dr. Lamm served on the Yeshiva University faculty, culminating in his appointment as the Erna and Jakob Michael Professor of Jewish Philosophy in 1966. A pulpit rabbi for twenty-five years, he served as spiritual leader of The Jewish Center in Manhattan. Prior to that, he served as assistant rabbi of New York City’s Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun and then as rabbi of Congregation Kodimoh in Springfield, MA.
  • Dr. Norman Lamm—distinguished rabbi, philosopher, teacher, and author—was elected President of Yeshiva 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 Jewish institution of higher learning and now serves as Chancellor of the University and Rosh ha-Yeshiva of its affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary.
  • Dr. Lamm has gained wide recognition for his writings and discourses on interpretation of Jewish philosophy and law, especially in relation to problems involving science, law, technology, and philosophy in the modern world. He has authored ten 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 over twenty volumes, including The Library of Jewish Law and Ethics. He was the founder and first editor of Tradition and associate editor of Hadarom, a journal of Jewish law, founder of the Torah U-Madda Journal, and founder of the Orthodox Forum

 

America and the Holocaust

 

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005182

 

Film—America and the Holocaust

 

 

Holocaust: The Untold Story

 

Rev. Coughlin

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/peopleevents/pandeAMEX96.html

 

Breckenridge Long

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/peopleevents/pandeAMEX90.html

 

Will Rogers

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/peopleevents/pandeAMEX105.html

 

The Bergson Boys

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/peopleevents/pandeAMEX88.html

 

Rabbi Stephen Wise

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/peopleevents/pandeAMEX101.html

 

Henry Morgenthau

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/peopleevents/pandeAMEX97.html

 

The film: Holocaust: The Untold Story

http://www.newseum.org/holocaust/credits.htm

The common belief that Hitler’s death camps were a secret — is a myth.
During the years 1939-1945 when World War II was fought in Europe, Americans relied on newspapers to get the latest news from the front. Many reports of nazi "extermination camps" filter out to the mainstream American press, but the story rarely makes the front page of the nation’s most respected newspapers. If a reader searches the New York Times front pages they could miss the horrific stories about Nazi Germany’s systematic murder of more than 6 million Jews. But the story gradually emerges in grim detail as editors bury the stories in their newspapers’ back pages.

Many stories that do get reported miss the fact that Jews are the primary targets for execution. The press fails to recognize that Hitler is fighting two wars: One against the allies, and one against the Jews.

Several haunting questions emerge from these findings: If the press had pursued the story and highlighted its urgency, could it have influenced public opinion and in turn, government policy? If the press focused on this story, could lives have been saved?

 

Volunteers helping pre-1948 Israel and acquiring arms

 

http://www.israelvets.com/story_aliyahbet_machal.html

http://www.israelvets.com/pictorialhist_acquiring_arms.html

http://www.israelvets.com/home.html