Rab­bi Bar­ry L. Schwartz is direc­tor of The Jew­ish Pub­li­ca­tion Soci­ety and rab­bi of Con­gre­ga­tion Adas Emu­no, Leo­nia, New Jer­sey. He is the author of Judaism’s Great Debates: Time­less Con­tro­ver­sies from Abra­ham to Her­zl and Jew­ish Heroes, Jew­ish Val­ues, among oth­er volumes.