Gedalia Dov Schwartz
| Rabbi Gedalia Dov Schwartz | |
|---|---|
| Rosh Beth Din | |
| Organisation |
Beth Din of America Chicago Rabbinical Council |
| Began | 1991 |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Gedalia Dov Schwartz |
| Born |
January 24, 1925 Newark, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Nationality | United States |
| Denomination | Orthodox |
| Residence | Chicago, Illinois |
| Children | Avraham Yishaya Rivka Leah Chaim Heschel |
| Occupation | Rabbi, posek, scholar |
| Semicha | Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary |
Gedalia Dov Schwartz (born January 24, 1925) is an eminent Orthodox rabbi, scholar, and posek (halakhic authority) living in Chicago, Illinois. From 1991 to 2013, before he gave his position as Ave Beth Din to Rabbi Yona Reiss, he has been the av beis din (head of the rabbinical court) of both the Beth Din of America and the Chicago Rabbinical Council as well as the rosh beth din (chief presiding judge) of the National Beth Din of the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA). He is also editor of HaDarom, the RCA Torah journal.
Schwartz was born and raised in Newark, New Jersey, where he first studied Torah in his teenage years with 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. Rabbi Schwartz was honored with the Harav Yosef Dov Halevi Soloveitchik, Joseph B. Soloveitchik Aluf Torah Award, RIETS highest honor, at Yeshiva University's Chag Haseemicha convocation on March 23, 2014.
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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