Ezra Schochet

Ezra Binyomin Schochet is an Orthodox rabbi and Lubavitcher Hasid who serves as Rosh Yeshiva (dean) of Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon Chabad/West Coast Talmudical Seminary in Los Angeles, California, US.

Early life and education Ezra Binyomin Schochet is one of six sons and four daughters of Rabbi Dov Yehuda Schochet (d. 1974) and Sara Sosha Mussensohn. His father was the Chief Rabbi of Basel, Switzerland from 1930 until 1947. Shortly after immigrating to Toronto in the early 1950s, the Schochets and most of their children joined the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, including young Ezra. His brothers included Rabbi Dr. Jacob Immanuel Schochet (1935–2013).

Rosh Yeshiva

Rabbi Schochet assumed the position of rosh yeshiva of Tomchei Temimim in Lod, Israel, from 1972 to 1973. He returned to Canada and headed the kollel of Ner Israel in Toronto from 1974 to 1978. Schochet is also the yeshiva's CEO, curriculum supervisor, and senior professor of Talmud. a granddaughter of the Slonimer Rebbe, in 1967. Weinberg died in 2010. In 2011 Schochet married Batsheva Wolf from Israel.

Rabbi Schochet has three sons and three daughters. His son Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Shochet, a Talmudic scholar, teaches in his father's Yeshiva. Two of Schochet's sons-in-law, as well as some of his grandchildren, are part of the Yeshiva faculty.