Herschel Schacter was an American Orthodox rabbi and chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
11 Facts About Herschel Schacter
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Herschel Schacter's father, Pincus, was a seventh-generation shochet, or ritual slaughterer; his mother, the former Miriam Schimmelman, was a real estate manager.
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Herschel Schacter's education included Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin, Mesivta Torah Vodaath, and Yeshiva College.
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Herschel Schacter earned a bachelor's degree from Yeshiva University in New York City in 1938 and semikhah from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in 1941.
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Herschel Schacter spent about a year as a pulpit rabbi in Stamford, Connecticut before enlisting in the Army in 1942.
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Herschel Schacter remained at Buchenwald for months, tending to survivors and leading religious services.
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Herschel Schacter was discharged from the Army with the rank of captain.
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Herschel Schacter was the rabbi of the Mosholu Jewish Center in the Bronx from 1947 till it closed in 1999.
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Herschel Schacter served as an adviser on the subject to President Richard Nixon.
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In 1971 Rabbi Herschel Schacter headed up the intra-denominational effort to maintain the Divinity exemption in the Vietnam draft.
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Herschel Schacter lived in the Riverdale, Bronx and died March 21,2013.