May 8, 2000
Rabbi
Dr. Jacob J. Schacter of Manhattan
To Be Honored For Contributions to Jewish Life
Rabbi
Dr. Jacob J. Schacter, spiritual
leader of The Jewish Center on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, will be
honored by the Orthodox Union with its
National Rabbinic Leadership Award for his contributions to Jewish life
at the organization’s 102nd
Anniversary National Dinner on Sunday, May 21, 2000, at the Grand
Hyatt Hotel in New York.
Rabbi
Schacter has served at the
Jewish Center since 1981 and under his leadership, the synagogue has
grown from almost 200 to nearly 600 families – with close to 1,000
participants in services on Shabbat mornings.
In
August, Rabbi Schacter will become Dean of the newly founded Rabbi
Joseph B. Soloveitchik Institute in Boston and plans to embark on a
comprehensive program to raise the level of professionalism in the
American Orthodox Jewish Community.
Rabbi
Schacter holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages from Harvard University
and received semicha (rabbinic
ordination) from Mesivta Torah Vodaath.
He is co-author of the award winning A Modern Heretic and a
Traditional Community: Mordechai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy and American
Judaism (Columbia University Press, 1997), and the author of close
to 50 articles and reviews. Rabbi
Schacter is presently completing a new Hebrew edition of the
autobiography of Rabbi Jacob Emden, an eighteenth century Jewish figure.
In addition, he is writing a book that will feature Rabbi Joseph
B. Soloveitchik’s teachings on Tisha
B’Av.
Rabbi
Schacter is the founding editor of The
Torah u-Madda Journal and editor of Reverence,
Righteousness and Rahamanut: Essays in Memory of Rabbi Dr. Leo Jung (1992),
Jewish
Tradition and the Nontraditional Jew (1992) and the award winning Judaism’s
Encounter with Other Cultures: Rejection or Integration? (1997).
He is also the co-editor of
the Orthodox Union’s Siddur Nechamas Yisrael: The Complete Service for the Period of
Bereavement (1995).
Since
1992, Rabbi Schacter has been a member of the faculty of the Wexner
Heritage Foundation and, since 1994, has served on the faculty of the
Wexner Foundation. He is
also Adjunct Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at Stern College for
Women, Yeshiva University.
Rabbi
Schacter holds a number of prominent Jewish communal positions and was
awarded several fellowships and grants to further his scholarly
research. He is a member of
the editorial boards of the magazines Tradition
and Jewish Action, serves on
the Board of Governors of
the Orthodox Union and is the founding president of the Council of
Orthodox Jewish Organizations of the Upper West Side
“Rabbi
Schacter is an impressive community and spiritual leader who has made
enormous contributions to Jewish life in America,” said Mandell I.
Ganchrow, M.D.
President of the Union. “We
are proud to honor Rabbi Schacter for all of his past accomplishments
and are confident that he will continue to have a profound impact on
Orthodox Judaism for many years to come.
Other
honorees at the Union’s anniversary dinner will include: Dr. Hedy and
Terrence Augenbraun, Jean and Marvin
Staiman, and Esther and Harry Walker. Union President
Mandell I. Ganchrow, M.D., will be presented with the organization’s Keter
Shem Tov Award for his years of distinguished leadership.
For
dinner reservations, please call Steven Karp at 212.613.8134
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