Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis

RABBI HAROLD M. SCHULWEIS was the spiritual leader of Valley Beth Shalom, a Conservative synagogue in Encino, California, for nearly 45 years. His books include Conscience: The Duty to Obey and the Duty to Disobey, For Those Who Can't Believe and Evil and the Morality of God.

Schulweis received his rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1950. Conscience won the 2008 National Jewish Book Award for Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice.

When not writing, Schulweis devoted himself to founding and leading Jewish humanitarian organizations, serving as founding chairman of the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous and founding both Mazon and Jewish World Watch.

Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis’s books are published by Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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