Ezra Schwartz is a

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and ''bochein'' (Official Examiner for

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placement exams at

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/ YU) at

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, an affiliate of

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in New York City. 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

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), Rabbi Shraga Feivel Paretzky, and Rabbi Eli B. Shulman. He now teaches in the RIETS

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program. He used to be an instructor of Talmud at the Mazer Yeshiva Program at 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. He also coordinates the Bronka Weintraub High School Bekiut Program, for high school students to study Talmud. He was a member of the staff of YU President Richard M. Joel, where he served as Assistant to the President for Research and Communications. From September 2009 until August 2019, Rabbi Schwartz was the Senior Rabbi at the

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synagogue Mount Sinai Jewish Center of Washington Heights.

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