Rabbi Dr. Moshe Sokol founded Touro's Lander College for Men and led it for twenty-five years, and in 2024 became dean of Touro's Graduate School of Jewish Studies. He holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and semichah from the Israel Torah Research Institute, and has long served as rabbi of the Yavneh Minyan of Flatbush. His books include The Snake at the Mouth of the Cave, on Talmudic stories.