Melech Schachter (Hebrew: אלימלך שכטר, April 7, 1913 - February 27, 2007) was a pulpit rabbi, coordinator of Jewish divorce, and instructor at Yeshiva University for over fifty years.
Schachter served many rabbinic roles over his career, including the pulpit rabbi in various communities such as Scranton, Pennsylvania, and The Bronx, New York.
In addition to teaching in the RIETS Semikha program, he also taught at Stern College for Women and the Wurzweiler School of Social Work.
[2] Schachter consulted with Rabbi Moshe Feinstein on a number of issues regarding Gittin and Geirut, such as the use of a polygraph by a husband who is fully paralyzed to commission the writing of a Get[3] and relying on a pregnancy test to allow a woman who converts to Judaism to marry immediately.
[4] He was an expert on the spelling of names in a Get and was often consulted by younger rabbis on issues of Halacha[5] and gave generously of his time to train them.