Rabbinical Leadership:

David Singer is a fourth year rabbinical student at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles, CA, having just returned from a year of study in Jerusalem.

He hails originally from San Diego, 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.

In 2004, he began his studies at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, spending a year in Jerusalem and three in New York City. While in New York, David worked as rabbinic intern at Park Slope's Congregation Beth Elohim, coordinating Brooklyn Jews, an outreach organization for Jews in their twenties and thirties . He also completed a unit of Clinical Pastoral Education at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

David moved to Los Angeles in 2008 to continue his rabbinic studies at the AJU's Ziegler School. This fall, he will begin the fourth year of the program, with a concentration in Philosophy, while serving as the school's mesader tefilah (Organizer of the school's minyan). Among his published works are "The Turkey, Chaplaincy, and Pastoral Care" (Plainviews, 2009) and "My Israel: People and Places" (Torah Aura Productions, 2009).

David is very excited to be joining Etz Hadar for the coming holidays.

In the future we will be inviting David Singer, rabinical students, Rabbis, and scholars for leadership.

Watch for your future newsletters for announcements.