Image Archives - Rabbi Daniel Brenner

Nublu Classic, Brooklyn Bowl, Roulette, and The Cutting Room! – Because Jewish – High Holidays 2018

16 July, 2018 Daniel Brenner Comments 0 Comment

Eight years ago, the first time that I heard Jeremiah Lockwood’s band Sway Machinery play at Brooklyn Bowl, I listened to two galaxies of sound merge together in my mind for the first time. Lockwood, the grandson of a well-known cantor (Jacob Konigberg), grew up in Manhattan steeped in the traditions of Ashkenazi religious music. As a young musician he fell in love with American roots music and finger-picking guitar styles and studied under the legendary blues artist Carolina Slim…

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A Poem for Purim 2018

28 February, 2018 Daniel Brenner Comments 1 comment

Break out the make-up and silicon and send a brave El Salvadoran refugee woman To Mar a Lago (Ha-Birah) And declare a fast day And in the penthouse He will extend his scepter And she will touch his scepter For the sake of her people. (For the sake of her people. I know, disgusting. But that is the story.) And when the lawyer hands her the $120,000 check She will tear it up into 120,000 little pieces And she’ll negotiate…

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An Open Letter to NY Giant Geoff Schwartz

6 May, 2015 Daniel Brenner Comments 3 comments

This first appeared in the New Jersey Jewish News: Dear Mr. Schwartz, When I first heard that you, an offensive guard for the New York Giants, are planning on playing against the Dallas Cowboys on a game unfortunately scheduled to begin after sunset on Sunday, Sept. 13, the first night of Rosh Hashana, I have to admit that I was a bit crestfallen. I know that when you were a college freshman on the University of Oregon team, you took…

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Passover Warehouse

26 March, 2015 Daniel Brenner Comments 0 Comment

Welcome to the Passover Warehouse! That’s right folks, you’re ONE STOP SHLEPPING for all the ridiculous bargains you look for in the Passover aisle! We got a fantastic play/skit that reviews the key points of the Exodus narrative for the seder. featured by PJ Library We got a collection of clean jokes for your seder. featured on Haggadot.com We have a quirky poem you could add to your seder. Popular with fans of Michael Jackson And, wait, what’s this? We got…

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Newsweek

15 January, 2014 Daniel Brenner Comments 0 Comment

One of the wonderful and truly random things about being on this list is that I am listed right behind the rabbi who officiated at my wedding. You can access the list with the following link: http://www.newsweek.com/50-influential-rabbis-77133

America’s Kewlest Rabbi

13 January, 2014 Daniel Brenner Comments 0 Comment

I am the kewlest. I am really really kewl guys. That is all.

This is Your Brain on Rabbi School

25 December, 2013 Daniel Brenner Comments 0 Comment

This is Your Brain on Rabbi School: A Cartoon Collection By Daniel Brenner I really should have been paying more attention during rabbinical school. Instead, I was spinning ideas into wacky cartoons in my notebook. The cartoons here are the ones that I saved by cutting them out and putting them in a folder. When I got my first job in New York City (about twenty years ago!) I threw all my folders into a cardboard box and shoved it into…

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Biography of Rabbi Daniel Brenner

25 December, 2013 Daniel Brenner Comments 0 Comment

Rabbi Daniel Brenner Daniel S. Brenner was born and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina. He received a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin, studied in Jerusalem at the Pardes Institute for Jewish Studies, and earned both an M.A. and rabbinic title from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. After rabbinical school, Brenner continued his studies with the Modern Orthodox theologian Rabbi Yitz Greenberg and went on to serve on the faculty of CLAL- The National Jewish Center for Learning and…