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Bringing Summer Camp Home

By Rabbi Danny Wednesday, June 01, 2016 Add Comment Edit

As much as I love the summer, I know that my best summers are behind me. I look forward to time at the pool, trips to the beach, and ti...

- Synagogue Bulletin - commandment

TCS Question - Why do we put a mezuzah on our door posts?

By Rabbi Danny Tuesday, March 01, 2016 Add Comment Edit

In the first year that we were living in Port Washington my parents came for a visit and we took them on a drive around some of the surr...

- Synagogue Bulletin - Bye Bye Birdie

TCS Bulletin - Coming together as a community

By Rabbi Danny Monday, February 01, 2016 Add Comment Edit

Depending on when you read this article, we just premiered The Community Synagogue Theater Company’s performance of Bye Bye Birdie at The L...

- Synagogue Bulletin - community

TCS Question - Why did we change our Shabbat Program?

By Rabbi Danny Friday, January 01, 2016 Add Comment Edit

Over the last few months a number of people have noticed that our Shabbat program has changed and that we have been using a new design. Whi...

- Synagogue Bulletin - ARZA

TCS Bulletin - 7 Takeaways from the World Zionist Congress

By Rabbi Danny Tuesday, December 01, 2015 Add Comment Edit

How do you sum up the World Zionist Congress? As you read this it will be over a month since Rabbi Z and I returned from the World Zion...

- Synagogue Bulletin - Maariv

TCS Question - Why do Jews traditionally pray three times a day?

By Rabbi Danny Sunday, November 01, 2015 Add Comment Edit

Traditionally we Jews pray three times a day, the first service is in the evening, because the Jewish day begins at sunset, and it is then ...

- Synagogue Bulletin - Am Yisrael Chai

TCS Bulletin - We're Going to Israel

By Rabbi Danny Thursday, October 01, 2015 Add Comment Edit

Later this month Rabbi Z and I will be flying to Israel to represent you and the American Jewish community as part of the ARZA delegation a...

- Synagogue Bulletin - CCAR

TCS Question - Why do we have a new Machzor?

By Rabbi Danny Tuesday, September 01, 2015 Add Comment Edit

As a religion Judaism has always been changing. While some might claim that every detail, law, and instruction was given, by God, to Moses ...

- Synagogue Bulletin - commandment

TCS Question - Why do we celebrate Shavuot on the 6th of Sivan?

By Rabbi Danny Monday, May 04, 2015 Add Comment Edit

We might assume that the answer to this question is very simple: Shavuot ,uguca is on the 6 th of Sivan iuhx because that’s what it sa...

- Synagogue Bulletin - Future

TCS Bulletin - How do you sum up a 10 day trip to Israel?

By Rabbi Danny Thursday, April 02, 2015 Add Comment Edit

It is almost impossible to do justice to the trip in words, because so much of it is about the feelings that this place can inspire in peop...

- Synagogue Bulletin - Bible

TCS Question - Why are there so many names for the Bible?

By Rabbi Danny Monday, March 02, 2015 Add Comment Edit

There are a lot of names that we use to refer to our sacred texts, and it can get confusing. Before we even get to the Jewish Bible as a wh...

- Synagogue Bulletin - grief

TCS Question - Why do we sit shiva?

By Rabbi Danny Friday, January 02, 2015 Add Comment Edit

Judaism has long understood the psychology of grief and mourning. Since the time of the Talmud there has been a structured and defined proc...

- Synagogue Bulletin - boil

TCS Question - Why don't people eat chicken and milk?

By Rabbi Danny Monday, November 03, 2014 Add Comment Edit

In the Torah on three occasions we read the line “do not boil a kid in its mother’s milk”, twice in Shemot (Exodus) and once in Devarim (...

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About Me

Rabbi Danny is a Rabbi at The Community Synagogue in Port Washington, he has a weekly Podcast “2 Minutes of Torah”, and he has been blogging regularly since 2010. He 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. Alongside this he is a husband to Micol, a father to Gabby, a Liverpool supporter, Fantasy Football fan, Englishman in New York, and a dedicated Doctor Who Nerd.