Ed Feinstein

Rabbi Feinstein is Senior Rabbi of Valley Beth Shalom. He serves on the faculty of the Ziegler Rabbinical School of the American Jewish University, the Wexner Heritage Program, the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem and lectures widely across the United States. In 1982, Rabbi Feinstein became the founding director of the Solomon Schechter Academy of Dallas, a center of educational excellence. In 1990, he assumed the position of executive director of Camp Ramah in California. He came to Valley Beth Shalom in 1993 at the invitation of the renowned Rabbi Harold Schulweis, and succeeded Rabbi Schulweis as the congregation’s Senior Rabbi in 2005. He graduated with honors from the University of California at Santa Cruz, the University of Judaism, Teachers College, Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, where he was ordained a rabbi in 1981. Most recently, he received his Doctorate in Education from the Jewish Theological Seminary at Park Avenue Synagogue in New York. Rabbi Feinstein lives in the San Fernando Valley with his wife Rabbi Nina Bieber Feinstein and they have three grown children. Rabbi Feinstein unites the ancient Jewish love of ideas with the warmth of Jewish humor.