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19 Facts About Shea Hecht

1.

Shea Hecht is an American Chabad rabbi, writer and radio broadcaster.

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Shea Hecht serves as chairman of the board of the National Committee for the Furtherance of Jewish Education.

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3.

Shea Hecht was born in Brooklyn, New York to Jacob J Hecht, one of the closest confidants of Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, and Chave Hecht.

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4.

Shea Hecht was educated in the Lubavitch Yeshiva Central School System, where he received his semikhah.

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5.

Shea Hecht rose to prominence in the 1970s after he began a program that sought to remove and educate Jewish youths away from various cults.

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6.

Shea Hecht is a dean at Hadar Hatorah Yeshiva in Brooklyn, a yeshiva dedicated to fostering the Baal Teshuvah movement, as well as a faculty member of the Ivy League Torah Study Program.

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7.

Shea Hecht served as the spiritual leader of the Seaview Jewish Center in Canarsie, Brooklyn.

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8.

Shea Hecht was featured as host alongside Felipe Luciano on the afternoon drive show on WWRL, and later moved to the morning drive show alongside Karen Hunter.

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Shea Hecht writes a weekly column that has been printed in many newspapers across the world such as The Jerusalem Post, The Jewish Press, GOP USA, and Israel National News.

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10.

On May 4,2014, Shea Hecht started a new family advice call in show for Israel National Radio, the online radio station of Arutz Sheva.

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11.

Shea Hecht regularly endorses and backs candidates for office, even though Chabad rabbis generally do not do so.

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Shea Hecht has explained that the reason that he does this is because the Rebbe gave his father special dispensation to endorse candidates for office.

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13.

Shea Hecht has been known to sway elections by giving candidates his support.

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14.

Shea Hecht backed Rudy Giuliani for his run for mayor of the City of New York in his first try at mayor in 1989.

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15.

Shea Hecht was the first Jewish leader to publicly back Scott Stringer for City Comptroller against former Governor Eliot Spitzer.

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16.

Shea Hecht has written many op-eds over the course of his career supporting many candidates running for office.

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17.

Shea Hecht is married to Bella, the daughter of AD Sufrin from London.

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18.

Shea Hecht's eldest son Yitchok Hecht is a director of Chabad of Ulster County, New York.

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19.

Shea Hecht's son Levi Hecht is a real estate developer in New York; he was named one of the "People to Watch" in the Hudson Valley in 2005.

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