David Evan Markus, a founding builder at Bayit: Building Jewish, brings extensive experience as pulpit rabbi, lawyer, public official, educator and nonprofit leader.  He is rabbi of Shir Ami (Greenwich, CT) after thirteen years of serving Temple Beth El of City Island (New York, NY), and past co-chair of ALEPH. He teaches at the Academy for Jewish Religion. A fellow of Rabbis Without Borders, David publishes widely on governance, management, liturgy and spiritual development, and has an active spiritual direction practice specializing in clergy development.  He maintains a weekly rabbinic blog and writes frequent sermons and essays.

By day, David presides in the New York courts in a public service career that has also included presidential campaigns, serving at all branches and levels of government, and teaching as graduate faculty in government and public administration for Fordham and Pace Universities.  David holds dual ordination as rabbi and spiritual director from ALEPH; a Juris Doctor magna cum laude from Harvard Law School; and a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, which named David a global “Innovator in Public Service.” There’s a dual bio on his About page, and selected legal writing is online at Law, justice, and ethics.