David Singer

THE MAN BEHIND THE BLOG:

David Singer is a rabbinical student at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, located at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles, CA.

He hails originally from San Diego, CA, and he earned his bachelors degree studying history at the University of California, Berkeley. There, he served as President of Berkeley Hillel and the Jewish Student Union as well as co-chair of the Israel Action Committee.

In 2004, he began rabbinical studies at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, spending a year living and studying in Jerusalem and three in New York City. In New York, David lived in the Cobble Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, where he worked as rabbinic intern at Park Slope's Congregation Beth Elohim, coordinating Brooklyn Jews. He also completed a unit of Clinical Pastoral Education at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, under the supervision of the Reverend David Fleenor.

David moved to Los Angeles in 2008 to continue his studies at the AJU's Ziegler School. Beginning in Fall 2009, he will be in Jerusalem and studying at the Conservative Yeshiva.

Among his published works are "The Turkey, Chaplaincy, and Pastoral Care" (Plainviews, 2009) and "My Israel: People and Places" (Torah Aura Productions, 2009).