Aharon Schechter

Aaron Moshe Schechter (also Aharon Moshe Schechter) is the rosh yeshiva ("dean") of the Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin and its post-graduate Talmudical division Kollel Gur Aryeh as well as of all the branches of the yeshiva in Brooklyn, New York City that includes an elementary school and a high school for young Jewish boys, teenagers, and young men almost exclusively drawn from the surrounding community of Haredi Jews living in Midwood, Brooklyn. The total number of students at the "Chaim Berlin" institutions is close to three thousand students.

Rabbi Schechter was born in Brooklyn in the 1920s and became a disciple of Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner after being enrolled in the Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin as a young child. He also studied in the Lakewood Yeshiva. His father belonged to the Young Israel movement and was befriended by Rabbi Hutner who had arrived in America in the 1930s.

He married Shoshana Roisa Leichtung in 1954. She served as the Principal of General Studies at Yeshiva of Brooklyn's girls' elementary school for over 20 years. She died on August 4, 2016.

They had two sons. One, Rabbi Mordechai Zelig Schecter, serves as the Mashgiach Ruchani at Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin. The other, Rabbi Nosson Schecter, is a mohel. Their eldest daughter is Rebbetzin Esther Yormark, longtime teacher at Beis Yaakov Academy in Brooklyn. She is the wife of Rabbi Shalom Eliyahu "Elyah" Yormark, who serves as the Second Seder Shoel Umeishiv for 12th grade and the 1st year of the post-high school program. Another daughter is Rebbetzin Nechama Halioua, wife of Rabbi Shlomo Halioua. Rabbi Halioua serves as Maggid Shiur, delivering the most advanced course offered in the yeshiva. It is he who is said to be the eventual replacement of his father-in-law as Rosh Yeshiva. The last daughter is Rebbetzin Yehudis Senderovitz, wife of Rabbi Yitzchok Meir "Itche" Senderovitz. Rabbi Senderovitz is the Second Seder Shoel Umeishiv for the second and third years of the post-high school program.

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