Rabbi Dan Goldblatt

Rabbi Dan Goldblatt is grateful to have received ordination from Reb Zalman, z”tl, through the ALEPH Ordination Program. Rabbi Dan has been the spiritual leader of Beth Chaim Congregation in Danville, CA, for three decades. He served on the Board of ALEPH for many years and he is a Past President of OHALAH: the Association of Rabbis and Cantors for Jewish Renewal. Dan served as Chair of the Rabbinic Association’s Ethics Committee for ten years and was the lead author of its Ethics Policy. He is also the co-founder of AriYael Jewish Healing Center focused on a rooted Jewish approach to embodied healing, grief, end-of-life work and other sacred transitions. Dan has been very active in local interfaith work and has created and led organizations including A Just Harvest (in support of California migrant farm workers), I-SRV (the Interfaith of the San Ramon Valley), and San Ramon Valley Cares (an organization in support of a confederation of indigenous tribes in the Ecuadorian Amazon battling Chevron Corporation).