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Lincoln College; Columbia University.
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The Jewish Daily Forward named Landres to its annual list of the 50 most influential American Jews in 2009. A 2007 report Landres co-authored with sociologist Steven M. Cohen and others linked Jewish emergent communities to social networking rather than institutional structures. They argued that "Jewish emergent" encompasses both the independent minyan movement (which was supported by Synagogue 3000) and so-called "rabbi-led emergent" communities such as IKAR and Kavana Cooperative.
In 2006, Landres co-convened the first gathering of Emergent church and "Jewish emergent" leaders in a meeting co-led by theologian Tony Jones, who recounted the episode in one of his books
In July 2012, the White House invited Landres, representing Jumpstart, to speak as a "spotlight innovator" at its Faith-Based Social Innovators Conference. Landres currently serves as a commissioner on the Los Angeles County Quality and Productivity Commission.
Bill Clinton has identified him as the "young man" who suggested "Don"t Stop" as the future president"s 1992 campaign theme song. Landres graduated from Columbia University and received a Masters degrees from Oxford in Social Anthropology and the University of California, Santa Barbara, in Religious Studies, as well as a Doctorate in Religious Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Landres"s work on ethnographic methodology has been cited in handbooks for the study of the sociology of religion.
In 2004, Landres took a public role in shaping the interreligious response to the film The Passion of the Christ.
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As the co-founder of Jumpstart, a nonprofit philanthropic research organization, he has worked with the White House on Jewish affairs and issues related to faith-based social innovation. A co-founder (with Rabbi Lawrence A Hoffman) of Synagogue 3000"s Synagogue Studies Institute, Landres is credited with creating the term "Jewish emergent," which describes new spiritual Jewish communities whose institutional dynamic in which "relationship, not contract or program, is the driving metaphor;” the term “Jewish Emergent” is after a parallel movement in the Christian church.
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Being of Jewish descent, in August 2015 he signed - as one of 98 members of the Los Angeles" Jewish community - an open letter supporting the proposed nuclear agreement between Iran and six world powers led by the United States "as being in the best interest of the United States and Israel.".
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Jewish