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Gedalia Dov Schwartz was born on 24 January, 1925 in Newark, New Jersey, U.S., is an American-born Orthodox rabbi, author, legal jurist. Discover Gedalia Dov Schwartz's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 95 years old?

Popular As Gedalia Dov Schwartz
Occupation Rabbi, posek, scholar
Age 95 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 24 January 1925
Birthday 24 January
Birthplace Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Date of death 2020
Died Place Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Nationality United States

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Parents Avraham
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Children Avraham Yishaya Rivka Leah Chaim Heschel

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1925

Gedalia Dov Schwartz (January 24, 1925 — December 9, 2020 ) was an eminent American Orthodox rabbi, scholar, and posek (halakhic authority) who lived in Chicago, Illinois.

1987

Before coming to Chicago in 1987, Schwartz was the rabbi of the Young Israel of Boro Park for 18 years, having earlier held pulpits in Rhode Island, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

He was a past president of the Mizrachi of Rhode Island and the RCA Philadelphia Region.

His father's name was Avraham.

1991

From 1991 to 2013, when he gave his position as Av Beth Din to Rabbi Yona Reiss, he was the av beis din (head of the rabbinical court) of both the Beth Din of America and the Chicago Rabbinical Council (cRc) as well as the rosh beth din (chief presiding judge) of the National Beth Din of the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA).

He was 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 was 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.

2002

In 2002 he was appointed as the head of a three-judge panel which examined cases of agunahs from the September 11 attacks, using DNA testing of post-mortem remains to verify the death of their husbands and allow them to remarry.

"Rabbi Schwartz was the first second-generation American rabbi to publish an original halachic [Jewish legal] work":

2009

He married Shoshana Poupko (d. 2009), with whom he had two sons and a daughter.

Their daughter, Rivka Leah, was married to the late Rabbi Yehoshua Goldman, who directed the Vaad HoIr of Cincinnati.

2010

In 2010, Schwartz married his surviving wife, Chana Sarah.

Rabbi Schwartz's opinion was frequently sought by both Jewish and secular sources on issues such as conversion to Judaism, halakhic prenuptial agreements, kashering items for Passover, child abuse, and tattoos.

2014

Rabbi Schwartz was honored with the Harav Yosef Dov Halevi Soloveitchik Aluf Torah Award, RIETS highest honor, at Yeshiva University's Chag Haseemicha convocation on March 23, 2014.