On Shabbat afternoon, April 5, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Cong. Rinat Yisrael is privileged to present a special lecture by Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter, professor at Yeshiva University, who will mark the first yahrzeit of Rabbi Herschel Schacter, z”l. The late Rabbi Schacter, a prominent student of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveichik (the Rav), z”l, dedicated his life to Jewish leadership. As a chaplain in the U.S. Third Army, he was a liberator of the Buchenwald concentration camp, where he tended to the survivors (including the 7-year-old Israel Meir Lau, later Chief Rabbi of Israel, his brother, former Israeli ambassador Naftalie Lavie, and the teenaged Elie Wiesel) and led religious services. He was the beloved Rabbi of the Mosholu Jewish Center in the Bronx for 52 years and was the acclaimed Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations. His son, Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter, will address “Reflections on the Past, the Future and Pesach” in his father’s memory.