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Hyman Judah Schachtel (1907–1990) was Senior Rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel of Houston from 1943 to 1975. From 1975-1990 He served as Rabbi Emeritus of Congregation Beth Israel of Houston He also served the Houston Jewish community as "rabbi-at-large" for the remainder of his life. On January 20, 1965, Rabbi Schachtel delivered the inaugural prayer for President Lyndon B. Johnson in Washington, D.C.. He was the author of several published works, including The Real Enjoyment of Living (1954), The Shadowed Valley (1962), and How to Meet the Challenge of Life and Death (1990). Schachtel was born in London in May 1907, and came to the United States on the Lusitania with his family in 1914. They settled in Buffalo, New York, where Schachtel's father Bernard secured employment as a cantor. Schachtel was ordained into the rabbinate at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati in 1931. His first pulpit was at Congregation Shaaray Tefila (sometimes referred to as the West End Synagogue) in New York City, where he served from 1931 until his arrival in Houston. Schachtel became a close personal friend of Lyndon B. Johnson, and delivered the inaugural prayer at President Johnson's inauguration in Washington D.C. on January 20, 1965.