Rabbi Daniel Burg

Daniel Cotzin Burg has been Rabbi of Beth Am Synagogue since July of 2010. Prior to his position at Beth Am, he served at Anshe Emet Synagogue in Chicago. Ordained by the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles (now American Jewish University), he also holds an M.A. in Jewish Education. Rav Daniel is recipient of the STAR PEER Rabbinic Fellowship and is a contributing author to Celebrating the Jewish Year: The Spring and Summer Holidays. He serves on the board of the Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies and Rabbinic Cabinet of the United Synagogue for Conservative Judaism.  He works closely with the Reservoir Hill Improvement Council, particularly in the areas of housing and development.  He is founder of the New Jewish Neighborhood Project and blogs at www.theUrbanRabbi.org. Rabbi Burg lives in the Reservoir Hill neighborhood of Baltimore City with his wife Rabbi Miriam Cotzin Burg and their two children, Eliyah and Shamir.