YOUNG ISRAEL OF ST. LOUIS

IS PLEASED TO WELCOME SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE

 

RABBI DR. JACOB J. SCHACTER

Shabbat Shira - Parshat Beshallach, February 2-3, 2007

 

Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter is University Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought and Senior Scholar at the Center for the Jewish Future at Yeshiva University. From 2000-2005, he served as Dean of the Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik Institute in Boston and also served as Rabbi of the Maimonides Minyan in Brookline, MA. He was the first Rabbi of the Young Israel of Sharon, MA, from 1977-1981, creating a new, vibrant and committed community. From 1981-2000, he served as the Rabbi of The Jewish Center in New York City, moving the congregation from 180 to over 600 members over the course of his tenure.

Rabbi Schacter received rabbinic ordination from Mesivta Torah Vodaath and holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages from Harvard University. He was a Teaching Fellow at Harvard from 1978-1980, Director of Yeshiva University's Torah u-Madda Project from 1986-1997, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Stern College for Women at Yeshiva University from 1993-1999. He also presently serves as a member of the faculty of The Wexner Foundation and The Wexner Heritage Foundation.

Opportunities to participate and hear Rabbi Dr. Schacter include: