Jacob J. Schacter

Jacob J. Schacter (also J.J. Schacter) is an American Orthodox rabbi.

Schacter is University Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought and Senior Scholar at the Center for the Jewish Future at Yeshiva University.

Schacter holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages from Harvard University and received rabbinic ordination from Yeshiva Torah Vodaas. He graduated from Brooklyn College in 1973. He lives in Teaneck, New Jersey.

Career

While still a graduate student, Schacter was Rabbi of Young Israel of Sharon, in Sharon, Massachusetts. He then became Rabbi of the prestigious Jewish Center in Manhattan. He headed the Rabbi Soloveitchik Institute in Brookline, Massachusetts.^[1]

Books

• "A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community: Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy, and American Judaism." Columbia University Press (1996)

Edited books

• "Reverence, Righteousness and Rahamanut: Essays in Memory of Rabbi Dr. Leo Jung" (1992)
• "Jewish Tradition and The Nontraditional Jew" (1992)
• "Judaism's Encounter with other Cultures: Rejection or Integration?" (1997)
• "The Complete Service for the Period of Bereavement" (1995)

References