Dr. David Luchins has been Chair of the Political Science Department since 1978. He is a graduate of Yeshiva College, and earned his doctorate from the CUNY Graduate center in 1977. Dr. Luchins teaches courses in American Politics and International Relations and serves as Founding Dean of Touro’s Lander College for Women.

Dr. Luchins served on the staff of United States Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan for twenty years as special assistant, senior assistant and ultimately senior advisor to the Senator. He is active in Jewish Communal life, having served as vice-president of the Orthodox Union since 1976, and as a member of the Executive Committee of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (since 1984), the National Commissions of the Anti-Defamation League and the Jewish Fund for Justice.

David Luchins spends his summers as a guest professor at the Aish HaTorah College of Judaic Studies in Jerusalem and is a frequent speaker at high schools, college campuses, synagogues and communal groups throughout North America, lecturing on a broad range of political and social issues.