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Rabbi
Hershel Schachter
Shlit"a
צבי שׁכטר
Personal
Born (1941-07-28) July 28, 1941 (age 82)
Scranton, Pennsylvania
ReligionJudaism
NationalityAmerican
ParentMelech Schachter (Father)
DenominationModern Orthodox Judaism
Alma materYeshiva University
PositionRosh Yeshiva
YeshivaRIETS
PositionPosek
OrganizationOrthodox Union
Began1967
ResidenceWashington Heights, Manhattan

Hershel Schachter (born (1941-07-28)July 28, 1941) is an American Orthodox rabbi, posek (religious law authority) and rosh yeshiva (dean) at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), part of Yeshiva University (YU) in New York City.

Schachter is a halakhic (Jewish law) advisor for the Orthodox Union, and has rendered notable decisions in a number of contemporary topic areas.

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of sexual child abuse to the police is consistent with Jewish law. Hershel Schachter concurred, stating that abuse cases should be reported in full to...

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Introduction to the Modern Eruv – a detailed halachic overview by R' Hershel Schachter String Theory article, Harpers Magazine (paywalled) Barry Smith, The...

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that's considered a disgrace in the community." Eidensohn accused Hershel Schachter of misquoting Maimonides in favor of beating husbands. Judy Heicklin...

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Orthodox communities. Prominent Modern Orthodox posqim, including Hershel Schachter, Mordechai Willig, Nisson Alpert, and others have ruled that this...

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Shulchan Aruch), and that those who feel otherwise are stringent. Hershel Schachter quotes Chaim Berlin as saying that shaking hands with women is strictly...

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Shlomo Sternberg

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controversial claims in The Bible Code. Sternberg is described by rabbi Hershel Schachter of Yeshiva University as "a big genius in learning and math" who played...

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Haftara

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Positions: Reading the Haftara", The Jewish Press, 20 March 1998; Hershel Schachter, "Lesser-Known Laws of Torah Reading", Journal of Jewish Music and...

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Timeline of LGBT Jewish history

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entitled "Torah View on Homosexuality". It was co-authored by Rav Hershel Schachter, Rav Mordechai Willig, Rav Michael Rosensweig, and Rav Mayer Twersky...

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page 275. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. Hershel Schachter, Mordechai Willig, Michael Rosensweig, and Mayer Twersky. "Torah View...

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Aryeh Lebowitz

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of Business and majored in finance. He is a close student of Rav Hershel Schachter. Rabbi Lebowitz received semikhah from RIETS and from Rabbi Zalman...

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Eliyahu Ben Haim

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