Nolan Lebovitz

Nolan Lebovitz serves as the senior rabbi at Valley Beth Shalom in Encino, California, and sits on the executive board of the Zionist Rabbinic Coalition. In 2024, he earned his PhD from Claremont Graduate University’s Religion Department, focusing on his 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.