Yoel Schwartz

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Rabbi Yoel Schwartz is a well known Torah scholar and a prolific writer who has published over 200 Jewish books. He learned at Yeshivas Ponevitch in Bnei Brak and Yeshivas Mir in Jerusalem, and was the mashgiach ruchani, the spiritual supervisor, of Yeshivat Itri and of the Nahal Charedi religious army program.

As of 2006, Rabbi Schwartz is a senior lecturer at Yeshivat Dvar Yerushalayim in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Nof, an English-speaking institute for baalei teshuva (newly religious). He is also involved in an attempt to revive the Sanhedrin.

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• Modern attempts to revive the Sanhedrin

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• Yeshivat Dvar Yerushalayim