Nolan Lebovitz serves as the senior rabbi of Valley Beth Shalom in Encino, California, and sits on the executive board of the Zionist Rabbinic Coalition. He is the author of the recently published "The Case for Dual Loyalty: Healing the Divided Soul of American Jews," which debuted in the No. 1 spot on Amazon’s new releases in Jewish studies. In 2024, he earned his PhD from Claremont Graduate University's Religion Department, focusing on the study of the Hebrew Bible. That same year, he accepted a position as an adjunct fellow at the Z3 Institute, which is part of the Palo Alto-based Z3 Project that is helping develop the next stage of Jewish life. A Fulbright scholar, Lebovitz spent time in 2023 studying at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He wrote and directed two documentaries "Roadmap Jerusalem" in 2018 and "Roadmap Genesis" in 2015. He was ordained with a master's degree from the American Jewish University's Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in 2016. He earned his BA from the USC School of Cinema-Television. A grandson of four survivors of the Shoah, he carries an obligation to teach the lessons of our past in hopes that we can chart a new, more hopeful course forward for our collective Jewish future.
