Rabbi Benyamin Ben Levi

October 6, 2016

Chief Rabbi Levi Ben Levy was one of the most dynamic black rabbis in America. He provided vital leadership for his people during the second half of the twentieth century as a teacher, speaker, community-organizer, founder of synagogues, and builder of organizations. Together with his many colleagues, he provided continuity with the past by preserving the work and memory of his teacher and our founder, Chief Rabbi W. A.  Matthew. By combining vision with action, Chief Rabbi Levy helped to define who we were as a people and greatly influenced the direction of our progress.

Chief Rabbi Levy gave honor to God and distinguished himself by founding two thriving congregations, Beth Shalom and Beth Elohim, an educational institution in the Israelite Rabbinical Academy that has produced most of the black rabbis in America, a unified leadership organization in the International Israelite Board of Rabbis, and gave us a quality publication in the The Hakol newsletter, and the first Israelite presence on the Internet. During his life, he received dozens of awards, plaques, and citations. He ran a half-hour radio program on radio station WWRL, he appeared on television programs such as “Black Pride,” and “Good Morning America” and he spoke to audiences internationally. For all these accomplishments and more, Chief Rabbi Levy is remembered as one of our greatest rabbis.

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