About the Author

Rabbi Schwartz is a graduate of Yeshiva University, with a Master's from the Bernard Revel Graduate School, and ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. He currently serves as Director of Curriculum and Faculty Development for the Florence Melton Adult Mini-School Institute, located at the Mount Scopus campus of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Served as rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel Abraham and Voliner located Overland Park, Kansas, from 1991-2000. In June of 2000 he went on aliyah, together with his wife, Deena, and their four children. Rabbi Schwartz is also a mohel, and lives in Hashmonaim, a yishuv just north of Modiin.