Daniel Kirzane is the Educator and Religious School Principal for Union Temple in Brooklyn.  He is a fourth-year rabbinical and education student and Wexner Graduate Fellow at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUR-JIR) in New York City.  Daniel is the coordinator of HUC-JIR’s weekly Soup Kitchen, he is an active participant in the HUC-JIR Worship Working Group, and he is the HUC-JIR representative for Inter-Seminary Dialogue.

Born in Roanoke, Virginia, Daniel graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in Religious Studies and Jewish Studies.  He then dedicated a year to national service with the AmeriCorps program City Year: Washington, D.C.  With City Year, Daniel taught a CDC-approved HIV prevention curriculum in public middle and high schools and planned and participated in large-scale service projects.

He has served as the student rabbi of Temple Beth Israel in Steubenville, OH and has conducted High Holiday services in Rocky Mount, NC and Lynchburg, VA.  His wife, Jessica, is a PhD student in Yiddish Studies at Columbia University.