About+Rabbi+Aronson

=About Rabbi Aronson= ==

Rabbi Daniel Aronson has been providing leadership to the American Jewish community for over 25 years as an educator, administrator and rabbi. He currently serves [|Congregation Temple Beth Sholom in Salem, OR], as its visiting rabbi and heads the religious school of [|Congregation Or Ami in Houston, TX], as its education director.

Among other positions he has held have been Assistant Director of the Brown-RISD Hillel Foundation, Dean of Admissions and Recruitment and Director of Annual Giving and Special Events at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, and Director of Congregational Learning at Ohev Shalom of Bucks County outside Philadelphia. Rabbi Aronson has also served congregations as an interim rabbi, taught children and adults, and done additional work tutoring, officiating at life cycle events and providing pastoral care.

Rabbi Aronson holds degrees from Brown University (AB in Judaic Studies), Brandeis University (MA in Jewish Communal Service), and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (MHL and Rabbinic Ordination) and is an alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship program.

“Rabbi Dan,” as some call him, lives in Houston, TX, with his wife Beth, a psychologist, their young daughter Katie, and several cats. Rabbi Aronson’s son Jacob is an engineering student at the University of Maryland.

Rabbi Aronson writes: //I am inspired by Jewish wisdom and strive to impart this wisdom to all who would learn. It is a joy to help each person develop his or her own unique relationship with Judaism and to discover within Judaism meaning and relevance.//

// Through my teaching, I find that each student is also my teacher, opening my eyes to previously unseen gems in the tradition. How gratifying it is to build a sacred and welcoming community in which everyone is potentially a teacher and guide for everyone else. “Who is wise? The person who learns from everyone,” say the rabbis. I look forward to working with you to build together a community in which all are wise: young and old, Jew and non-Jew. //