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Rabbi Daniel Schaefer

Assistant Rabbi Daniel Schaefer

 
Prior to his ordination, Rabbi Daniel Schaefer served as the student Rabbi of the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center and the Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation, as well as the Director of Graduate Student Engagement at MIT Hillel. 
 
Rabbi Schaefer grew up in Connecticut before attending Stanford University, where he studied History and Jewish Studies. His award-winning honors thesis, American Judaism Reconsidered: Religion & Nationalism in the Thought of Irving Reichert, explored visions of American Judaism before World War II. At Hebrew College, his final project, The Way of the Wilderness, focused on connections between nature and Torah in the book of Numbers.
 
After college, Rabbi Schaefer worked as an entrepreneur and ghostwriter, taught at a wilderness school, and served in AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps, before returning to rabbinical school. In addition to Hebrew College, he has studied at Mechon Hadar, the Hartman Institute, the Jewish Theological Seminary, and Hebrew Union College.
 
He is passionate about Torah study, experiential learning, spiritual exploration, and building multi-generational Jewish community. In his free time, he loves spending time at Walden Pond, in the White Mountains, and cheering on the Boston Celtics. He enjoys being part of the community here at Temple Ohabei Shalom.
 
Rabbi Schaefer can be reached at: dschaefer@ohabei.org.
 
Sat, September 21 2019 21 Elul 5779