in this role for the rest of his life. He also served as a council member of the Agudath HaRabbanim of the United States and Canada. Along with Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Samuel Belkin, Shatzkes was a member of the Rabbinical Ordination Board at the seminary, granting to 425 of its graduates. Shatzkes was a friend of Yitzchak Halevi Herzog, chief rabbi of Israel, and had been a friend of both the Chofetz Chaim and Chaim Ozer Grodzinski before the Second World War. He delivered eulogies at both their funerals. Death He died on December 29, 1958, in Brooklyn, New York, at the age of 77. References American people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent Yeshiva University rosh yeshivas American Orthodox rabbis Lithuanian Orthodox rabbis 1881 births 1958 deaths Burials at Har HaMenuchot Rabbis from Lomza 20th-century Lithuanian rabbis