Rabbi Dan Levin serves as the senior rabbi of Temple Beth El, located in Boca Raton, FL, the congregation where he began his career in 1996. As the congregation’s leader, Rabbi Levin works to create a community where each member is inspired to lead a life of spiritual richness, meaning, purpose, and service. He seeks to build a congregation whose mission is to synthesize the defining questions and moral challenges of the world in which we live with the wisdom and power of centuries of Jewish tradition. It is this synthesis of tradition and the modern world that guides his teaching, worship, and pastoral care. Rabbi Levin believes that God is found in the intimacy of relationship, and seeks to build in the congregation a web of care, love, and oneness with each other, the community in which we live, and with the Jewish people here, in Israel, and throughout the world.
Rabbi Levin serves as Vice President of Financial Affairs for the Central Conference of American Rabbis, and is a past president of SEACCAR, the southeast region of the CCAR. He is proud to be a member of the President’s Rabbinical Council of the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion. Previously, he served as a member of the HUC-JIR Alumni Leadership Council, as a partner in the Kalsman Institute for Judaism and Health, and as a member of the Reform Movement’s Think Tank, a group seeking to create a visioning process for the future of Reform Judaism. He has mentored younger colleagues through the CCAR, The Wexner Foundation, and the CLI Fellows program of CLAL – the Center for Learning and Leadership.
Locally, he currently serves on the board of the Levis JCC, and has served on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County, as a board member of Ruth and Norman Rales Jewish Family Services, the American Jewish Committee, and the Mathew Forbes Romer Foundation.
Rabbi Levin hosts the “Essential Questions” podcast, and has appeared on television with the American Religious Town Hall Meeting. His writing has been published in Prophetic Voices: Renewing and Reimagining Haftarah, The Forward, The Palm Beach Post, the Union for Reform Judaism’s Ten Minutes of Torah.
Rabbi Levin is a Senior Rabbinic Fellow with the Shalom Hartman Institute, and studied with the Institute for Jewish Spirituality. A recipient of the prestigious Wexner Graduate Fellowship, Rabbi Levin was ordained in May, 1996. He graduated from Colgate University with a degree in Philosophy and Religion in 1991, and also studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He and his wife Aimee are the parents of three children, Ari, Meredith, and Eliana.