Landes came to Pardes in 1995 as director and has been active in creation of advanced Talmud classes, Bekiut Talmud, the Fellows, PEP, the Kollel, the Executive Seminar Programs, the annual Blaustein and Brettler Scholar Series, Pardes USA and strengthening of the Pardes Beit Midrash. Landes was the first rabbi to be invited by Indonesia to speak publicly (at the Forum of Religions).
Pardes announced in July 2016, that "[a]fter 21 years of dedicated service to Pardes, Rabbi Daniel Landes will be leaving at the end of the summer."[2]
Landes is director of YASHRUT, having founded the institute in 2018 to build civil discourse through a theology of integrity, justice, and tolerance. YASHRUT includes a semikhah initiative as well as programs for rabbinic leaders. Landes has ordained forty-three rabbis during his career, seven of which received semikhah from Landes under the auspices of YASHRUT in 2019.[3]
In 2019 in Jerusalem, Landes ordained Daniel Atwood; Atwood thus became the first openly gay person to be ordained as an Orthodox rabbi.[4][5]
Publications
Landes and his wife Sheryl Robbin, a social worker and author, write on Biblical and ethical issues.
Co-editor with Alex Grobman of Genocide: Critical Issues/ The Holocaust
Editor of Confronting Omnicide: Jewish Reflections of Weapons of Mass Destruction
