# Daniel Landes > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Daniel_Landes > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Daniel_Landes.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Landes > Source revision: 1357106051 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) **Daniel Landes** is the former director of the [Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies](/source/Pardes_Institute_of_Jewish_Studies) in [Jerusalem](/source/Jerusalem) and [New York City](/source/New_York_City).[1] ## Biography Born in [Chicago](/source/Chicago), Landes studied in Chicago with Rabbi M.B. Sacks, the Menachem Tzion; in Israel with Reb [Aryeh Levin](/source/Aryeh_Levin), [Zvi Yehuda Kook](/source/Zvi_Yehuda_Kook), and the [chief rabbi](/source/Chief_rabbi), R. [Avraham Shapira](/source/Avraham_Shapira); in New York with [Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik](/source/Rabbi_Joseph_B._Soloveitchik); and in Los Angeles with Din R. Shmuel Katz (on whose [rabbinical court](/source/Rabbinical_court) he served). Landes was a founding faculty member of The [Simon Wiesenthal Center](/source/Simon_Wiesenthal_Center) in Los Angeles (director of education) and of [Yeshiva of Los Angeles](/source/Yeshiva_of_Los_Angeles) (The Van Lennop Chair of Social Ethics). He was also an adjunct associate professor of law at [Loyola Law School](/source/Loyola_Law_School). Landes taught for the [Wexner Foundation](/source/Wexner_Foundation) for over 20 years. Landes came to Pardes in 1995 as director and has been active in creation of advanced [Talmud](/source/Talmud) classes, Bekiut Talmud, the Fellows, PEP, the [Kollel](/source/Kollel), the Executive Seminar Programs, the annual Blaustein and Brettler Scholar Series, Pardes USA and strengthening of the Pardes [Beit Midrash](/source/Beit_Midrash). Landes was the first rabbi to be invited by [Indonesia](/source/Indonesia) to speak publicly (at the Forum of Religions). Pardes announced in July 2016, that "[a]fter 21 years of dedicated service to Pardes, Rabbi Daniel Landes will be leaving at the end of the summer."[2] Landes is director of YASHRUT, having founded the institute in 2018 to build civil discourse through a theology of integrity, justice, and tolerance. YASHRUT includes a [semikhah](/source/Semikhah) initiative as well as programs for rabbinic leaders. Landes has ordained forty-three rabbis during his career, seven of which received semikhah from Landes under the auspices of YASHRUT in 2019.[3] In 2019 in Jerusalem, Landes ordained [Daniel Atwood](/source/Daniel_Atwood); Atwood thus became the first openly gay person to be ordained as an Orthodox rabbi.[4][5] ## Publications Landes and his wife Sheryl Robbin, a social worker and author, write on Biblical and ethical issues. - Co-editor with [Alex Grobman](/source/Alex_Grobman) of *Genocide: Critical Issues/ The Holocaust* - Editor of *Confronting Omnicide: Jewish Reflections of Weapons of Mass Destruction* - [Jewish Law](/source/Jewish_Law) commentator for the ten-volume interdenominational work *My People’s Prayer Book* (recipient of the [National Jewish Book Award](/source/National_Jewish_Book_Award)) - Published articles in *[Tikkun](/source/Tikkun_(magazine))* and *[Jewish Review of Books](/source/Jewish_Review_of_Books)*, as well as other magazines, journals and newspapers. ## References 1. ["Daniel Landes"](https://web.archive.org/web/20140714125918/http://www.pardes.org.il/daniel-landes). Archived from [the original](http://www.pardes.org.il/daniel-landes) on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-07-10. 1. ["Rabbi Daniel Landes to leave Pardes"](https://www.pardes.org.il/2016/07/rabbi-daniel-landes-to-leave-pardes/). 21 July 2016. 1. ["Jerusalem rabbinical school gives new meaning to 'unorthodox'"](https://plus61j.net.au/panel1/jerusalem-rabbinical-school-gives-new-meaning-unorthodox/). plus61j.net.au. 31 May 2019. Retrieved 2020-01-06. 1. ["This Was a Week of Jewish Blessings: Gay, Orthodox Ordination, an 80-Person B'nei Mitzvah, and a Spelling Bee"](https://forward.com/opinion/425242/this-was-a-week-of-jewish-blessings-gay-orthodox-ordination-an-80-person/?gamp). 31 May 2019. 1. ["First openly gay Orthodox rabbi ordained in Jerusalem - Israel News"](https://web.archive.org/web/20190528125211/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/first-openly-gay-orthodox-rabbi-ordained-in-jerusalem-1.7300255). Haaretz.com. 2019-05-28. Archived from [the original](https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/first-openly-gay-orthodox-rabbi-ordained-in-jerusalem-1.7300255) on May 28, 2019. Retrieved 2019-06-03. ## External links - [Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem and New York City](http://www.pardes.org.il/) - [Articles by Rabbi Landes on *Haaretz*](https://web.archive.org/web/20140313213336/http://www.haaretz.com/misc/writers/rabbi-daniel-landes-1.579565) - [Blog posts by Rabbi Landes on *Times of Israel*](http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/author/daniel-landes/) - [Articles by Rabbi Landes on *Open Zion*](http://www.thedailybeast.com/contributors/rabbi-daniel-landes.html) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Daniel Landes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Landes) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Landes?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.