Herschel Schacter

Herschel Schacter

Herschel Schacter is a former chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations [http://www.therav.net/gallery/gallery.htm TheRav.net Gallery] ] [Time Magazine November 06, 1972 [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,942579,00.html Guess Who's for Richard Nixon] ] , and a prominent student of the Rav, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik [ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0uF44xLM-k Excerpt: The Rebbe and the Rav] ] .

He is also the father of Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter, the former director of the Soloveitchik Institute.

He graduated Yeshiva University in 1938 and Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in 1941.

During World War II, he was a chaplain in the Third Army's VIII Corps. [ [http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=gvKVLcMVIuG&b=394979 AMERICAN JEWISH CHAPLAINS AND THE SHEARIT HAPLETAH: APRIL-JUNE 1945] ] and was the first US Army Chaplain to enter and participate in the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945 and later aided in the resettlement of displaced persons.

He went on to run the Mosholu Jewish Center for more than 5 decades. ["The Jewish Week", April, 2000 by Maxfield, Jennifer [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5092/is_200004/ai_n18524445 A Bronx Icon: Rabbi Herschel Schacter, his Mosholu Jewish Center closed, reflects on more than five decades lifting spirits and helping the downtrodden.] ]

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