Schachter, Schächter or Schechter (from Yiddish shochet, 'to slaughter'.

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:שכטר also Shechter) is a Yiddish and German surname. Notable people with the surname include:

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* Daniel Schacter, psychologist, neuroscientist, researcher in human memory * Binyumen Schaechter, composer, arranger, conductor * Carl Schachter, music theorist specializing in Schenkerian analysis * Hershel Schachter, Rosh Yeshiva at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary *

Hershel Schacter Herschel Schacter (October 10, 1917 – March 21, 2013) was an American Orthodox rabbi and chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. Early life Schacter was born in Brownsville, Brooklyn, the youngest o ...

* Joshua Schachter, creator of the website ''Delicious'' *

Mioara Mugur-Schächter Mioara Mugur-Schächter is a French physicist of Romanian origin, a specialist in quantum physics and epistemology. Biography Born in Romania, she arrived in France in 1962 from Bucharest. Her PhD thesis, of which the whole content had been elab ...

, French specialist on Physics and Epistemology * Norm Schachter, American football official in the NFL * Oscar Schachter, international law and diplomacy professor * Rafael Schächter, Czechoslovakian composer, pianist and conductor, organizer of cultural life in Terezín concentration camp * Sam Schachter, Canadian Olympic beach volleyball player * Stanley Schachter, American psychologist *

Steven Schachter Steven Schachter is an American television, theatre, and film director and screenwriter. Much of Schachter's success stems from projects on which he has collaborated with William H. Macy. The two co-wrote the cable television movies '' The Con'' ...

, American director and screenwriter *

Zalman Schachter Meshullam Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (28 August 1924 – 3 July 2014), commonly called "Reb Zalman" (full Hebrew name: ), was one of the founders of the Jewish Renewal movement and an innovator in ecumenical dialogue. Early life Born Meshullam Zal ...

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* Aaron Schechter, rosh yeshiva of the Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin. *

Alan Schechter Alan Schechter (born 1936) is a political scientist. He is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. He was educated at Amherst College, where he received his AB, and at Columbia University, where he earned ...

, political scientist *

Ben Schechter Ben Schechter (born August 26, 1980) is an American artist and filmmaker best known as a partner in Directors Collective Weird Days. He is now based in Los Angeles. Career Ben Schechter established Weird Days with Alex Goldberg and Drew Blatma ...

, American filmmaker * Daniel Schechter, American psychiatrist, developmental neuroscientist, researcher in trauma and attachment * Daniel Schechter (director), American filmmaker and director * Danny Schechter, American television producer and filmmaker *

Harold Schechter Harold Schechter (born June 28, 1948) is an American true crime writer who specializes in serial killers. He is a Professor Emeritus at Queens College, City University of New York where he taught classes in American literature and myth criticism ...

, American writer * Itay Shechter, Israeli footballer currently playing for Beitar Jerusalem. *

Jody Scheckter Jody David Scheckter (born 29 January 1950) is a South African business proprietor and former motor racing driver. He competed in Formula One from 1972 to 1980, winning the Drivers' Championship in with Ferrari. Scheckter remains the only Af ...

, retired racing driver now farmer * Martin Schechter (epidemiologist), Canadian medical epidemiologist recognized for contributions to HIV and addiction research *

Mathilde Roth Schechter Mathilde Roth Schechter (also Matilda; December 16, 1859 – August 27, 1924) was the American founder of the U.S. National Women's League of Conservative Judaism in 1918. Biography Schechter was born in Breslau, Prussia (now Wrocław, Polan ...

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Ofer Shechter Ofer Shechter ( he, עפר שכטר; April 8, 1981) is an Israeli actor, stand-up comedian, television host, and former model. Early life Shechter was born and raised in moshav Hadar Am, Israel, to a family of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. At the a ...

, Israeli actor, entertainer, model and TV host. *

Paul L. Schechter Paul L. Schechter (born May 30, 1948) is an American astronomer and observational cosmologist. He is the William A. M. Burden Professor of Astrophysics, Emeritus, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT. Schechter received his bachelor's d ...

, American astronomer * Peter Schechter, American political consultant and author *

Sarah Schechter Sarah Schechter is the first female rabbi in the U.S. Air Force. She joined the Air Force as a chaplain candidate, and became a chaplain when she was ordained as a Reform rabbi in 2003. Her father was an Air Force chaplain in 1960. She grew ...

, American rabbi *

Solomon Schechter Solomon Schechter ( he, 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 ...

, rabbi * Susan Schechter (1946–2004), American domestic violence activist *

Susan Schechter Bortner Susan Schechter Bortner (published as Susan Schechter) is an American Survey methodology, survey statistician, formerly in US Government service and now a researcher at NORC at the University of Chicago, a private nonprofit social research organ ...

, American statistician *

Yaakov Meir Shechter Yaakov Meir Shechter (born November 6, 1930) is a prominent rabbi and teacher in the Breslov Hasidic movement in Israel. He is a well-known kabbalist and a rosh yeshiva of both the main Breslov Yeshiva in Meah Shearim, Jerusalem, and the Non-Br ...

leader and teacher in the Breslov Hasidic movement in Israel.

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