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3 unusual facts about Jacob J. Hecht


David Werdyger

Later, Werdyger moved to the Rabbi Meir Simcha Hakohein Shul in East Flatbush, headed by Chabad Rabbi Jacob J. Hecht.

Jacob Hecht

Jacob J. Hecht (died 1990), Chabad rabbi, educator, writer and radio commentator

Shea Hecht

He is the son of the late Rabbi Jacob J. Hecht, one of the closest confidants of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Grand Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.


Andrew C. Hecht

That same year, Hecht founded the Newton-Wellesley Spine Center and served as it medical co-director.

Bernard Sobel

Among his clients were Florenz Ziegfeld, Charles Dillingham, A. L. Erlanger, and Lee, Sam, and Jacob Shubert.

Hillsboro Cemetery

Located in Hillsboro, Ohio, Hillsboro Cemetery is home to multiple notable interments, including baseball player Kirby White and politicians Joseph J. McDowell, John Armstrong Smith, Jacob J. Pugsley, Allen Trimble and Wilbur M. White.

Jacob J. Rabinowitz

Rabinowitz immigrated to Israel, becoming the first member of the law faculty in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to teach Hebrew law.

Jacob J. Rosenthal

In a brazen move that will become a trademark throughout his professional career, he secured an ad in red ink on the first page of the Cincinnati Enquirer announcing the coming of Effie Ellsler in Hazel Kirke.

According to reports, in January 1914, he had arranged for the coming of Marie Dressler to the Gaiety when a contract had been signed for the showing of white-slave films (a popular genre in early cinema) at the house at the same time.

Robert E. Hecht

In 1953 he married Elizabeth Chase, a graduate student of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

Salem Fields Cemetery, Brooklyn

Jacob J. Shubert (1879–1963), theater owner and operator, director, producer

Victorious Youth

The Museum's previous curator of antiquities, Marion True, was indicted in Italy in 2005 along with Robert E. Hecht on criminal charges relating to trafficking in stolen antiquities.


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