Vaetchanan: Why The Shema

Rabbi Danny is the Senior of Rabbi at Temple Shir Tikva in Wayland, MA. This 550 family congregation has experienced unprecedented growth of about 10% a year since Rabbi Danny joined the team in July 2017. Together with the synagogue, he shares a mission of making Judaism relevant in the 21st century – something he hopes to achieve through his Two Minutes of Torah podcast.

Prior to joining Temple Shir Tikva, Rabbi Danny served The Community Synagogue in Port Washington, NY and the West London Synagogue of British Jews, the flagship congregation of the British Reform movement and the synagogue in which he was raised.

Rabbi Danny was a member of the inaugural cohort of the UJA Federation of New York’s Rabbinic Fellowship for Visionary Leaders and he is a Rabbis Without Borders fellow. In the wider Jewish community he is a former Executive Board member of the World Union of Progressive Judaism and the former Vice-President of Arzenu (the International Federation of Reform and Progressive Religious Zionists).

Rabbi Danny is an avid consumer of podcasts and is proud to be one of the earliest podcasters on the JCast Network.