Aharon Yaakov Schwei (July 9, 1934 – April 24, 2020)[1] was an Orthodox rabbi and a member of the Chabad Hasidic movement.
Rabbi Schwei served on the Bais Din Tzedek (Jewish Rabbinical Court) of the Chabad community in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
[2][3][4][5][6] Rabbi Schwei was involved in supervising and granting kosher certification under the Crown Heights rabbinical court.
[10][11] The court however remanded this ruling back to the arbitration panel for clarification[12][13][14] which is yet to reconvene Both Rabbis Osdoba and Schwei spoke out against several "hate blogs" created by members of the community.
[16][17] They were later joined by the "Central Committee of Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbis in the United States and Canada," also known as Vaad Rabbonei Lubavitch who also banned COTS.