Career
In that role he administers tests to incoming students and assigns students to classes. Schwartz is the fifth bochein in the history of RIETS. He succeeds Rabbi Yehuda Weil, Rabbi Mendel Zaks (the son in law of the Chofetz Chaim), Rabbi Shraga Feivel Paretzky, and Rabbi Eli B. Shulman. He now teaches in the RIETS semikha program
He used to be an instructor of Talmud at the Mazer Yeshiva Program in Yeshiva University.
Prior to 2012, he instructed talmud at the Irving I. Stone Beit Midrash Program. He also coordinated the Rosansky Program in Contemporary Halacha.
Since September 2009, Rabbi Schwartz has been the Senior Rabbi at the Modern Orthodox synagogue Mount Sinai Jewish Center of Washington Heights.
