Marc D. Angel

Rabbi Marc D. Angel is Founder and Director of the Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals, fostering an intellectually vibrant, compassionate and inclusive Orthodox Judaism. He is Rabbi Emeritus of the historic Congregation Shearith Israel, the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue of New York City (founded 1654), where he has been serving since 1969. Born and raised in the Sephardic Jewish community of Seattle, Washington, he went to New York for his higher education at Yeshiva University, where he earned his B.A., M.S., Ph.D. and Rabbinic Ordination. He has an M.A. in English Literature from the City College of New York. Author and editor of 30 books, he has written and lectured extensively on various aspects of Jewish law, history and culture.

Through Albion-Andalus, he has published The Crown of Solomon and Other Stories and A New World: An American Sephardic Memoir.