Rabbi David Kay was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in May 2002, when he also received his MA in Jewish Education. He served Congregation Ohev Shalom in Maitland, FL, from 2004 to 2021. During rabbinical school, he was student Rabbi for several congregations, including Shalom Independent Congregation of Johannesburg, South Africa, and conducted High Holiday services in voice and sign language at the Rochester Institute of Technology / National Technical Institute of the Deaf.

A native of Chicago, Rabbi David and Joanne Goldman Kay live in Orlando. Their son, Jonah, a graduate of the Joint Program of Columbia University and List College of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, currently lives in London.