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Daniel R Shevitz, Rabbi

Dan Shevitz

Daniel R Shevitz, Rabbi

Lecturer in Rabbinics

dshevitz@ajula.edu

Phone: (310) 392-3029

Ext: 511

Education

Columbia University, B.A. Philosophy, 1971
Jewish Theological Seminary of America, BHL, Talmud, 1971
JTSA, M.A. Rabbinic Literature, 1973
JTSA, Rabbinic Ordination, 1975
JTSA, DD (honoris causa), 2001
 

Biography

Dan Shevitz has taught at AJU’s Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies since 1997. He serves as rabbi to Congregation Mishkon Tephilo in Venice and as Av Bet Din of the Community Bet Din of Southern California. He has previously served as a congregational rabbi in Oklahoma City, and as Hillel director and Chaplain at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  From 1998 until 2010 he served as a chaplain to the Los Angeles Police Department.

Additional Professional Accomplishments

Website: www.shevitz.net