Rabbi Judith HaLevy

President

Rabbi Judith HaLevy is the Rabbi of the Malibu Jewish Center and Synagogue.

She holds advanced degrees in International Relations from both Rutgers University and Columbia University, and spent her early years in International Education in Mexico City and Tel Aviv.

Returning to New Mexico in 1976, she continued her work in the field of bilingual education and cultural diversity. She spent ten years as the director of the Taos Arts Association, and in that capacity served on the Board of the National Endowment for the Arts from 1988-1992.

She began her rabbinic studies at that time, and was ordained as Rabbi in 1992. Her student pulpit was in Santa Fe, New Mexico, her home for over a decade. She came to Los Angeles to co-found Metiva, a Center for Jewish Spirituality, and Sarah's Tent, a community based on Judasim and creativity. In 1996 she became the spiritual leader of MJC&S, a Reconstructionist synagogue, where she serves to this day.

Rabbi Judith HaLevy has been a member of the executive committee of the Los Angeles Board of Rabbis since 2002, and was installed as President of the Board of Rabbis of Los Angeles in May 2011. Rabbi HaLevy is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, having completed three years of intensive study in the Rabbinic Leadership program in 2010. She is known throughout the Los Angeles area as a gifted teacher and speaker.