An Overview of Sefer Ezra and Nehemiah: The Return To Zion and Its Challenges

About Rabbi Allen Schwartz

Rabbi Allen Schwartz is the spiritual leader of Congregation Ohab Zedek in Manhattan. He is an alumnus of Yeshiva College and received his Master of Arts Degree in Bible, Rabbinics and Halacha from Yeshiva University's Bernard Revel Graduate School, where he continues to work on his doctoral thesis on Rashi's methodology. Rabbi Schwartz was granted Smicha from the University's affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. He currently holds the Raymond J. Greenwald Chair in Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University, where he has taught since 1983.