Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis
Rabbi Schulweis has been instrumental in the development of synagogue programs such as the Synagogue Havurah Program (since adopted nationally), Para-professional Counseling Center, Para-Rabbinics and Jews-by-Choice, Outreach to the Developmentally Disabled (Shaare Tikvah and Chaverim), the VBS Day School, as well as addressing the issues of Jewish education and interfaith dialogue. He is the founding Chairman of the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, an organization that identifies and offers grants to those non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews threatened by the agents of Nazi savagery. After the revelation of the genocide in Darfur, Sudan, he founded the Jewish World Watch project in 2004 to raise the moral consciousness within the Synagogue community. Currently, 60 Synagogues and other religious institutions are supporting this effort across the country, with the membership continuing to increase each year. Rabbi Schulweis has authored many books, including: Approaches to the Philosophy of Religion (Prentice-Hall), For Those Who Can’t Believe (Harper Collins), Finding Each Other in Judaism, In God’s Mirror, and two books of original religious poetry and meditation: From Birth to Immortality and Passages in Poetry. . His Evil and the Morality of God (Hebrew Union College Press) is regarded as a classic, and new for 2008, Conscience: The Duty to Obey, and the Duty to Disobey (Jewish Lights). He and his wife Malkah Schulweis are the proud parents of Seth and Kathleen, Ethan and Cindy and Alissa and Peter. They are blessed with nine grandchildren, the lights of their lives. A partial listing of other honors and awards bestowed upon Rabbi Schulweis include:
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