Josh Levy

{{Short description|British theologian}}

Josh Benjamin Israel Levy (born March 1974){{Cite web |title=Josh Benjamin Israel Levy – Rabbi |url=https://www.checkcompany.co.uk/director/5149672/RABBI-JOSH-BENJAMIN-ISRAEL-LEVY |access-date=28 August 2024 |website=Check Company}} is a British Reform rabbi and Chief Executive of the Movement for Reform Judaism, a post he has held since May 2023 and full time since November 2023.{{Cite press release |title=Statement on Progressive Judaism |date=17 April 2023 |access-date = 31 August 2024|publisher=Movement for Reform Judaism |url=https://www.reformjudaism.org.uk/statement-on-progressive-judaism/}}

He is working in partnership with Charley Baginsky, the chief executive of Liberal Judaism, on the creation of a unified movement in the United Kingdom for Progressive Judaism.{{Cite news |last=Rosenberg |first=Michelle |date=17 April 2023 |title=Liberal and Reform merge to create single progressive UK Jewish movement |work=Jewish News |url=https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/liberal-and-reform-merge-to-create-single-progressive-uk-jewish-movement/ |access-date=17 April 2023}}

From 2008 to 2023, Levy was Rabbi of North Western Reform Synagogue (also known as "Alyth") at Temple Fortune in northwest London.{{Cite web |title=Rabbi Josh Levy |url=https://lbc.ac.uk/member/rabbi-josh-levy/ |access-date=17 April 2023 |website=Leo Baeck College}}{{Cite web |date=4 January 2021 |title=North Western Reform Synagogue |url=http://www.jewishgen.org/JCR-UK/London/golders_nw_ref/index.htm |access-date=17 April 2023 |website=Jewish Communities and Records – UK (hosted by jewishgen.org)}}

He is an alumnus of Exeter College, Oxford University and of the London School of Economics.

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