Rabbi Norman Lamm, former Yeshiva U president, dies at 92

Rabbi Norman Lamm, noted Modern Orthodox rabbi, author and communal leader, passed away Sunday at the age of 92. 

The president emeritus of Yeshiva University had just lost his wife to COVID-19 a month earlier. 

Rabbi Lamm was the third President of Yeshiva University, serving from 1976 until 2013, and is credited with helping to save it from falling into bankruptcy. 

Rabbi Lamm got his rabbinical ordination from Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik at Yeshiva University's rabbinical school, the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, in 1951. 

In 1952, he was appointed rabbi of New York's Congregation Beth Israel, where he served for six years before becoming assistant rabbi at the Jewish Center on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in 1958. 

In 1959, he was promoted to the Jewish Center's rabbi, a position he held until 1976.

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