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Solomon Schechter (Hebrew: שניאור זלמן הכהן שכטר ; 7 December 1847 – 19 November 1915) was a Moldavian-born British-American rabbi, academic scholar and educator, most famous for his roles as founder and President of the United Synagogue of America, President of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and architect of American Conservative Judaism.
The Schechter Day School Network; Formation: 1965 (60 years ago) (): Type: organization of Jewish day schools that identify with Conservative Judaism: Purpose: to promote: "the continued growth and vitality of its member schools, which serve a broad Jewish population and are characterized by Conservative thought and practice, high academic achievement and social responsibility, in a culture of ...
The Leffell School (formerly Solomon Schechter School of Westchester) is a K–12 private, co-educational, Jewish day school in New York, United States. It was established in 1966 by Max Gelb and operates on two campuses; a Lower School (K–5) in White Plains and an Upper School (6–12) in Hartsdale .
Schechter Manhattan opened in 1996 with Dr. S. Lorch as the founding Head of School. The first eighth graders graduated in June 2006; alumni have gone on to a wide range of excellent independent, Jewish, and public high schools including but not limited to: Bard, Beacon, Dalton, Heschel, High School of Math, Science & Engineering, Horace Mann, LaGuardia, Ramaz, SAR, Schechter School of ...
Golda Och Academy is a private Jewish day school in West Orange, New Jersey.It educates Jewish students from pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade at two campuses. Previously known as Solomon Schechter Day School of Essex and Union, the current name was adopted in June 2011.
Solomon Schechter High School of New York was a coeducational Jewish high school located in the New York City borough of Manhattan.The school, which was affiliated with the Conservative Movement of Judaism and a member of the Solomon Schechter Day School Association, merged in 2006 with the New Jersey–based Schechter Regional High School, to form the Metro Schechter Academy, which in turn ...
Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County is a Coeducational Jewish Day School at 275 McKinley Avenue in New Milford, New Jersey, United States. The school is a member of the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools . [ 1 ]
Solomon Schechter at work in Cambridge University Library, studying the fragments of the Cairo Genizah, c. 1898. The first European to note the collection was apparently Simon van Gelderen (a great-uncle of Heinrich Heine), who visited the Ben Ezra synagogue and reported about the Cairo Genizah in 1752 or 1753.