Rabbi Howard Jachter

Rabbi Jachter has been teaching Halacha and Tanach at TABC since 1995. He also leads the Summer Halacha Kollel where students devote a week of relaxed learning of a halachic topic not usually covered in the yeshiva curriculum. Rabbi Jachter serves as the faculty advisor to Kol Torah, TABC’s weekly Torah newsletter, which is read by thousands worldwide. He is also TABC's Director of Alumni Relations, maintaining ties with hundreds of TABC graduates and often serving as a halachic guide to them in their post-high school years. Rabbi Jachter has written 18 well-received books, including five volumes of Gray Matter, with the assistance of TABC alumni. He received Yoreh Yoreh and Yadin Yadin Semicha, as well as an MA in Jewish Studies, from Yeshiva University. In addition to teaching at TABC, Rabbi Jachter serves as Rabbi of Congregation Shaarei Orah, the Sephardic Congregation of Teaneck (and has considerable expertise in Sephardic Halacha) and as a Dayan on the Beth Din of Elizabeth, where he serves as a Get administrator of international renown and arbiter of commercial disputes. He also chairs the Rabbinical Council of America Agunah prevention and resolution committee. He advises more than 60 communities on eruv construction and has served as a scholar-in-residence in more than 200 communities worldwide.