Rabbi Daniel Epstein is the Senior Rabbi at The Western Marble Arch Synagogue in London’s West End. He has been serving the community together with his wife Ilana since March 2021. Born and raised in London, Rabbi Daniel married Ilana Spitz (from New York) and moved to Israel and he began working for New York PR firm Ruder Finn; after which he established his own PR firm, servicing over 40 government, corporate, technology and non- profit clients.

Moving back to London in 2014, to take the helm of the 1,200- member Cockfosters & North Southgate Synagogue community, Rabbi Epstein also runs adult education programmes in Torah, political, social and economic thought; and works to raise awareness of mental health challenges in the Jewish community. He is involved in interfaith dialogue, having participated in and hosted debates with senior faith leaders in the UK and Europe.

Rabbi Epstein is the rabbinic governor of JFS School – Europe’s largest Jewish high school, with over 2,000 students. He is a lead rabbinic educator for the Holocaust Educational Trust’s “Lessons from Auschwitz” programme that takes over 3,500 non-Jewish high school students to Poland each year on one- day trips.

In 2023, Rabbi Epstein & Ilana were individually selected as Sacks Scholars – a group of communal educators and leaders convened by the Rabbi Sacks Legacy Trust to develop Rabbi Sacks’ zt”l ideas and disseminate his Torah philosophies and teachings, after his untimely passing.

Rabbi Epstein studied at Yeshivat Har Etzion in Israel and, subsequently, received semicha from Rabbi Aharon Ziegler of Kollel Agudat Achim/Orayta; followed by a year at the Straus-Amiel post-ordination Rabbinics School.

Rabbi Epstein holds a BSc (Hons) ARCS in Chemistry and Management Science from Imperial College London and he and Ilana have 4 children.

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