On May 26, I ordained Daniel Atwood, a gay Orthodox rabbinical student who was denied the opportunity to receive smicha (ordination) from his own Orthodox yeshiva. There ceremony was attended […]
Rabbi Daniel Landes
Rabbi Daniel Landes is founder and director of Yashrut, building civil discourse through a theology of integrity, justice and tolerance. He received his rabbinical ordination from his mentor, Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik. Before making aliyah from Los Angeles, Landes was a founding faculty member of both the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Yeshiva University in LA.