page_title: Marc D. Angel
hierarchical_section_title: Marc D. Angel
caption_attribution_description: English: Rabbi Marc Angel speaking at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School's first ever Irving S. Weinstein Memorial Award and Lecture for the Advancement of Interdenominational Cooperation on 20 May 2008.
context_page_description: Marc D. Angel is rabbi emeritus of Congregation Shearith Israel, the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in New York City, "which he has been serving since 1969."
  Born into Seattle's Sephardic community, his ancestors are Sephardim from Turkey and Rhodes and he grew up in a Ladino-speaking home.
  He received his B.A., M.S., Ph.D., Th.D. honoris causa, and semikhah from Yeshiva University; he also has an M.A. in English literature from the City College of New York. He has received the Bernard Revel Award in Religion and Religious Education. He was president of the Rabbinical Council of America, and a member of the editorial board of its journal, Tradition.
  In 2007, he established the Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals. He directs the Institute, and edits its journal, Conversations, which appears three times per year and is a voice of Open Orthodoxy. In 2007, he and Rabbi Avi Weiss co-founded the International Rabbinic Fellowship, the Open Orthodox rabbinic group, "to counter what they see as a rightward shift in the Orthodox community" and reduce centralization of rabbinate authority, though they remained RCA members.
context_section_description: Marc D. Angel (born July 1945) is rabbi emeritus of Congregation Shearith Israel, the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in New York City, "which he has been serving since 1969."
  Born into Seattle's Sephardic community, his ancestors are Sephardim from Turkey and Rhodes and he grew up in a Ladino-speaking home.
  He received his B.A., M.S., Ph.D., Th.D. honoris causa, and semikhah (rabbinical ordination) from Yeshiva University; he also has an M.A. in English literature from the City College of New York. He has received the Bernard Revel Award in Religion and Religious Education. He was president of the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA), and a member of the editorial board of its journal, Tradition.
  In 2007, he established the Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals. He directs the Institute, and edits its journal, Conversations, which appears three times per year and is a voice of Open Orthodoxy. In 2007, he and Rabbi Avi Weiss co-founded the International Rabbinic Fellowship, the Open Orthodox rabbinic group, "to counter what they see as a rightward shift in the Orthodox community" and reduce centralization of rabbinate authority, though they remained RCA members. 
  A prolific author, he has written several controversial books and articles that have taken issue with and challenged traditional Orthodox views and the Rabbinate.
caption: Rabbi Angel speaking
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