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Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet?

Who will succeed Britain's Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks who will be retiring in September 2013? The Jewish Chronicle mentioned Chabad Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet as a leading candidate. Full Story

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go go go
December 19, 2010 4:09 pm

I was a counselor under him in 3 diferent day camps – Miami, Denver and Maryland. If he’d be as good a chief rabbi as he was a head counselor then he would be very good!

schotet all the way
December 19, 2010 1:59 pm

no qeustion cheief rabbi lord schochet

chabad and mainstream
December 19, 2010 8:05 am

Yitzchok Schochet is a mainstream Rabbi and also very proud Chabad chosid and shliach. You can’t get better than that. All hail Chief Rabbi Schochet. Long live the King.

CHABAD AND THE MAINSTREAM
December 19, 2010 4:24 am

OK Mr Berger you are taking this conversation to a whole new level: What exactly do you mean that Lubavitch is too far outside the mainstream? What is the mainstream? Modern Orthodoxy? They cannot even define what they stand for. Secular Judaism? That’s an oxymoron. Litvish? They’re too busy fighting amongst their own for kovod and who gets the title of “next Godol HaDor.” Ironically each in their own way look to Lubavitch to siphon off what they believe to be the best bits. As I heard someone say recently, “the only reason I migrated away from Modern Orthodoxy and… Read more »

Britain's Next Chief Rabbi
December 19, 2010 12:03 am

First, I suggest you look further at some Israeli and American possibilities because those are the places where the most creative and dynamic tghinking is coming from. Second, let Lubavitch do the work they do, but serious people would not consider them for major communal leadership positions as they are too far outside the mainstream, and it may be unfair to Rabbi Shochet to put this burden on him. So Third, here is an American name for you to consider, Rabbi Barry Freundel of Washington DC, brilliant intellectual, talmid chacham, superb speaker and writer, clear thinker, outstanding with students and… Read more »

Rabbi Jeremy Lawrence:
December 18, 2010 10:04 pm

Believes he has what it takes for the job. Very articulate.

Schochet and Moshiach to 44
December 18, 2010 8:20 pm

What are his views on the Rebbe and Moshiach? He wrote a beautiful piece on YNet about the Rebbe as leader of the generation. You mean he doesn’t get up in his shul and say the Rebbe is Moshiach? Is that necessary to be Chief Rabbi? Or are you one of the London Meshichistim?

WHAT YOU NEED TO BE A CHIEF RABBI
December 18, 2010 8:17 pm

1) Brains: He’s a Shochet. He has that in abundance. 2) Charisma: He must have that. His bo says he built up a shul to more than 1400 members and the article says he is popular in media and television. 3) Leadership: He is the chairman of the Rabbinical Council in London. 4) The Rebbe’s Bracha: CR Saks asked the Rebbe before he became Chief Rabbi. As a shliach of the Rebbe, Shochet would have that blessing as well. I think all this makes him more qualified than many of the other Chabad “Chief Rabbis” we have out there at… Read more »

no for shochet
December 18, 2010 3:23 pm

even though Shochet is a very clever guy i would for sure not like him to be the chief Rabbi of England his views on the REBBE and on Moshiach are very upsetting he has got to realise that the Rebbe is the leader of the generation and there is no one like the Rebbe or been as great as the Rebbe

great
December 18, 2010 2:45 pm

i live in crown heights but i would still love to see schochet win he would be great!!!

ABSURD
December 18, 2010 2:30 pm

How dare any of you be judge and jury about anyone? You sit there on asarah bitzeves and you write about these two people in negative ways. Let them both be well both become chief rabbis both cnotinue to do good for klal yisroel. just have ahavas yisroel that’s all!!!

Laughed Our Loud 36
December 18, 2010 2:21 pm

What are the personality qualifications for the job? For those who know Chief Rabbi Sacks he is brilliant. A great shliach for Klal Yisroel. But personality is NOT one of his strong points. They say he is not personable at all. If that is a qualification then you are right Yitzie Shochet is not the man for the job. When I met him in NY a year ago, he gave me so much time talking through a big issue I had. He didn’t really know me apart from the yeshiva in London and he gave me time and good advice.… Read more »

36 check
December 18, 2010 1:19 pm

what ddo you know about his personality? unless you’re married to him you know nothing about him. but you could ask his 1000+ who are inspired by him. Like every Shochat maybe he’s a little arrogant but he’s also a nice guy. Maybe you’re one f the jealous ones. probably.

#29 ?
December 17, 2010 10:24 am

#29 defiantly a Schochet and Schochet ONLY can write that!…

Schochet cousins
December 17, 2010 8:43 am

These include wagners, steinmetz, Newman males and weisberg, farkash, lisker, wilhelm, silberstein females etc etc just to name a few on the lubavich landscape

naftali
December 17, 2010 4:31 am

very little background given on their yeshiva experience.

london
December 17, 2010 3:39 am

As good as Yitschok is, he wont be the chief Rabbi.First because hes a lubavitcher but also there are things about his personality that disqualify him from getting the job.
As for Naftoli Brawer, he is still a Tomim whether he wants it or not.
In any case noone will be like chief Rabbi SAcks who actually might be the next guest speaker at Kinus.

Shochet and conversion
December 17, 2010 3:38 am

It was an interesting article. It was very controversial. It got everyone talking. Some were with him, some were against him. His target was the crazy infighting over conversion and if no one is going to recognize anyone else then why bother. As a Rabbi he could get away with a suggestion like that. I like a man who isn’t scared to speak his mind and take a stand on positions to do with yiddishkeit. I agree that one may have been a little off center but it is a rare one. Most of his comments, articles, interviews are in… Read more »

Laughed out loud
December 17, 2010 3:33 am

at comment from number 30. I doubt it’s true but it is a classic Schochat comment to make. I am a member of UK CHabad (not London) and would love nothing more than to see Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet as Chief Rabbi. Would the United Synagogue ever even consider it? I wonder.

WOW
December 17, 2010 1:24 am

read some of the other parsha thoughts here http://www.shul.co.uk/readArticle.php?article=211

HIs blog is very cool. Here http://www.shul.co.uk/readArticle.php?article=83

Even if he doesn’t make Chief Rabbi I am going to become an avid follower!

twenty five
December 17, 2010 1:20 am

thank for the link. I agree it is a beautiful way to give over a thought from the Rebbe. Do you always have to give it over i the Rebbe’s name? Sometimes if that can work against you ie you are not in a Chabad House and people would resent you quoting the Rebbe each week then at least you could put the message across. HAfotzas Hamayonus = spreading chassidus. Not always in the name of. Or as the Rebbe would say zog es yeh in mine nomen zog es nisht in mine nomen as long as the message gets… Read more »

Number 28 / 29
December 17, 2010 1:14 am

28 you must be a fan. Probably from UK and from Chabad. There are lots who are jelous of him.
29 you must be a Shochet to write that as you did.

So true
December 17, 2010 12:30 am

All the schochets I know are superior in every way. They teach, write, speak and accomplish far more and far better then any regular person can. When I recently mentioned this to yitzchoks cousin she laughed and said yes we test our babies at birth and if they don’t score high enough intelligence wise we leave them at the hospital. This way we keep our gene pool pure!! Maybe she was serious?

Schochet: A Royal Family
December 16, 2010 10:00 pm

They come from a long line of Rabbonim.

The grandfather HRH”G Dov Yehuda Schochet zt”l was Chief Rabbi of The Hague and the adjacent regional towns in Holland. He instituted giving out a “K’sav Chaver” which some cherish more than a smicha.

Cetainly the Schochet’s have royalty in their genes and their DNA is wired for such a position.

It seems that this entire family is composed from geniuses, lecturers, authors and leaders of the pack. All are high profile over-achievers with over inflated I.Q.’s.

I suspect their gifted abilities are genetic.

qualifications
December 16, 2010 8:31 pm

It’s not only about being a Lubavitcher. The Chief Rabbi needs to be intelligent and diplomatic. A Rabbi who has his foot in his mouth more often than not, or more ego than brains, will not make a good Chief Rabbi and will just end up being a chillul Lubavitch. So, lets look at real qualifications rather than just affiliations! May Hashem lead the right person into the position.

:-)
December 16, 2010 8:28 pm

I would absolutely vote for him, if I was able. Years back, when I was in Yeshivah in London, I read his weekly article in the Jewish newspaper. His wisdom was exceptionally attractive, so I may it my priority that before the year’s end, I would meet with him. After my time in London, I continued to follow his career. I read his newspaper articles online, watched his TV appearances, and listened to his shiurm on Chabad.org, YouTube.com, and TorahCafe.com. If you would like a sample of the rabbi’s work, go ahead google him. You will be impressed as I… Read more »

Great family is right
December 16, 2010 8:25 pm

Those schochets are something else. I think they have the monopoly on brains and talent. Not only yitzchoks fathers siblings but his cousins male and female are leaders in lubavich today. What an inspiation they are.

FOUND IT
December 16, 2010 8:14 pm

Number 9 check this out: http://www.shul.co.uk/readArticle.php?article=224 Exceptionally clever way to give over a sicha from the Rebbe. But why doesn’t he quote the Rebbe?

to Number 9
December 16, 2010 8:08 pm

Google him. Loads of stuff from him. Also I went to totallyjewish.com. He does a weekly column in a paper and it is also on line and that took me to his personal website http://www.shul.co.uk/rabbi

Brawer
December 16, 2010 7:59 pm

He was the night activity director in CGI Montreal the first summer I ever went to overnight camp 1988. I have few specific memories, but I do remember loving night activity.

When i was a Bochur in Morristown in 5756 I went to his chabad house on Sundays to learn with Baalei Batim for a morning power breakfast (which we called Power Brawer, AKA poyer for those who slept in 407).

in Lubavitch interest?
December 16, 2010 7:56 pm

Is it in Lubavitch interest to have a Chabad Chief Rabbi in the UK? If so we have a large enough network around Europe and the world to really put it out there, everywhere. A strong campaign is what he needs and we can do it. But does Y. Schochet want it? There’s no comment from him.

I agree with 15
December 16, 2010 7:53 pm

Unfortunately Chabad never has a chance. It is very impressive that a Chabad rabbi would even make it into the mentions. I don’t know if that has ever happened before in the UK. And he’s the chairman of the Rabbis just as Goldman was in S. Africa. If he wasn’t Chabad he would probably walk the job. He is very articulate, intelligent, and has a great public persona. But Chabad is his stumbling block. Of course shlichus is priority. and if its meant to me it’ll be!

Age of all
December 16, 2010 7:49 pm

I am guessing that Shochet and Brawer are about the same age. Early forties. Same age as Sacks was when he became Chief Rabbi.

Good Rabbi.... but NO Chief Rabbi material
December 16, 2010 7:45 pm

Rabbi Schochet is a good Rabbi, but he has made numerous controversial statements, including a preposterous call for a worlwide ban on conversions k’hallacha.

rabbi
December 16, 2010 7:41 pm

continue ur shlichus in mill hill, where u r doing an amazing job

Why is the Chief retiring?
December 16, 2010 7:30 pm

He is one of the greatest Jewish leaders today, I adore the man.

having said that, Rabbi Shuchat would make a great replacement.

Rabbi schochet
December 16, 2010 7:14 pm

Im youre number one fan and you know it

wishful thinking
December 16, 2010 6:35 pm

the unfortunate reality is it will never happen…a few years back in south africa rabbis goldman and chazdan two prominent and leading canidates across the board did not win. there were many people who sa to it that a chabad rabbi should not win…

rabbi schochet
December 16, 2010 6:31 pm

he has what ti takes in all areas and comes from a great family as well

stam
December 16, 2010 6:20 pm

I Think Rabbi Shochat will be too old to be chief rabbi

Did anyone see this?
December 16, 2010 6:17 pm

Watch it and you’ll understand why Rabbi Shochet should be Chief Rabbi.

http://www.torahcafe.com/musicvideo.php?vid=349df5a2b#

Shocked by Brower
December 16, 2010 6:16 pm

I knew him well in Morristown this article got me to google him and this is what i found : http://www.borehamwoodshul.org/aboutus/rabbibrawer.asp

Brower
December 16, 2010 6:03 pm

he is a graduate of tomchei temimim of Montreal and went through the whole system including shlichus and 770

Shochat as Chief
December 16, 2010 5:20 pm

Is there somewhere I can read stuff of his?

Brawer
December 16, 2010 5:19 pm

It’s not a secret. He officially disclaimed his formal Chabad affiliation. No more kapoteh or beard. He calls himself modern orthodox.

Has my vote
December 16, 2010 4:51 pm

I don’t know any of the candidates. But I watched Y. Schochet in the webcast with Alan Dershowitz.

It’s impressive and speaks the language that we need to hear today. But I don’t imagine they would ever take a Chabadnik which is why Brauer has a better chance.

fuggedaboutit
December 16, 2010 4:34 pm

My dear Rabbi Schochat, i am one of your biggest fans, but you know better then most that the United Synagogue will never, ever appoint a Chabadnik as Chief Rabbi.
Lately a lot of US shuls looking for new Rabbis deliberately avoid hiring Chabad Rabbis.
The closest we have ever come is the current Chief, Rabbi Sacks who is a fan and friend of Chabad.

nice
December 16, 2010 4:32 pm

since im lubavitch ill be biased and say RABBI SCHOCHET however eve from an outside prspective i would say the ame becuase this rabbio is very uniqe and clever so who knows?

Ex chabadnik
December 16, 2010 4:27 pm

Rabbi Dr. Naftali Brawer is no longer Chabad. He removed his Kapota and beard around 10 years ago and doesn’t give any outside indication of ever being Chabad. Of course no one can know whats going on B’Pnimuus.
I would consider Rabbi Shmuly Boteach as a Chabadnik before i would Rabbi Brawer, and i am sure they would both agree.
Its a pity because Rabbi Brawer is a smart guy.

.dd
December 16, 2010 4:00 pm

Naftali Brawer is a Lubavitcher

Brawer
December 16, 2010 3:58 pm

Is Naftali Brower not a chabadnik?

shame
December 16, 2010 3:52 pm

i think the chief rabbi has at least another 10 good years in him. he is am amazing representitive of the jewish people to the britsh government and beyond

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