Rabbi J.J. Schacter for Yom Hashoah on TAPED WITH RABBI DOUG

Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter (born 1950) is an American Orthodox rabbi. Rabbi Schacter, a historian of intellectual trends in Orthodox Judaism, and is University Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought and Senior Scholar at Y.U. He is the son of Pnina Gewirtz Schacter and Rabbi Herschel Schacter, grew up in New York City's Bronx neighborhood.
He holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages from Harvard University and received rabbinic ordination from Yeshiva Torah Vodaas in 1973 and graduated from Brooklyn College in 1973. He lives in Teaneck, New Jersey.
He is regarded as following "the ideological tradition" of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. In 2000, he moved to Massachusetts where he became dean of the Rabbi Joseph B Soloveitchik Institute in Brookline, a position he held until 2005, when he left to become Senior Scholar and University Professor at Yeshiva University's new Center for the Jewish Future.
Rabbi Schacter is the keynote speaker at The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Eduactional Center in Skokie, IL on Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Memorial Day) sponsored by the Israel Consulate, JUF, and the museum.
Don't miss his amazing speech and this moving program and Rabbi Doug's interview with Rabbi Schacter on this first episode for Yom Hashoah 5785 on "TAPED WITH RABBI DOUG" .

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