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Rabbi
Daniel R. Shevitz
Rabbi Dan Shevitz serves Congregation Mishkon Tephilo in Venice,
California, just two blocks from the beach. He previously served Emanuel
Synagogue in Oklahoma City and as Hillel director and Jewish chaplain at
MIT in Cambridge, MA, a post he held for seventeen years.
Rabbi Dan has lectured on Jewish medical ethics, midrash, and
Jewish mysticism and esoterica, and currently is adjunct instructor in Talmud
at the Ziegler Rabbinical School of the University of Judaism. He has
taught at Hebrew College and Emanuel College in Boston and at Oklahoma City
University. For over 30 years Dan has been involved with the Havurah
movement. He has taught frequently at national and regional Havurah
Institutes, as well as serving there as rav hamachshir (the final authority
on Kashrut).
Rabbi Dan serves the community as a chaplain for the Los Angeles
Police Department, and is Av Bet Din (president of the court) of the Los
Angeles Community Bet Din. He
is also executive vice-president of the Pacific Southwest region of the
Rabbinical Assembly.
He is a licensed private pilot, motorcyclist, and has apprenticed
as an auto mechanic with Tom and Ray Magliozzi in Cambridge (of "Car
Talk" on National Public Radio). He plays several instruments ineptly,
except for the accordion, which he plays poorly, but it's less noticeable
because it's an accordion. He is married to Amy Hill Shevitz, a Jewish
historian, and they live in Venice with Humuhumunukunuku, a Mollucan
cockatoo ("M2").
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