Biography
Schwartz was born and raised in Newark, New Jersey, where he studied under Rabbi Yaakov Benzion Mendelson. He is a graduate of Yeshiva College and the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University, where he received his rabbinic ordination. Following this ordination, he received a fellowship in the Institute of Advanced Rabbinic Research of Yeshiva University. Later he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree.
Before coming to Chicago in 1987, Schwartz was the rabbi of the Young Israel of Boro Park for 18 years, and afterwards held pulpits in Rhode Island, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He is a past president of the Mizrachi of Rhode Island and the RCA Philadelphia Region.
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