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Daniel Greyber

Rabbi of Beth El Synagogue in Durham, NC

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May 7, 2026, 1:17 PM

Why my synagogue raised funds for a Gaza school

Children and staff at the Gaza Children Village (Gaza Children Village via social media)

If we only know how to say no to what is dangerous, and not yes to what is hopeful, we will forfeit the future we claim to seek

May 19, 2021, 6:35 PM

An open letter to progressive American clergy

Many American Jews are hurting this week. I did a baby naming a few days ago; one set of grandparents Zoomed from their bomb shelter in Israel. Two of our synagogue teens spending the year in Israel slept in...

May 29, 2020, 12:02 AM

Faith should make us more responsible, not less

739 Chicagoans above the norm died during the week of July 14, 1995, but it is a mistake to say they died from a heatwave. “Of course forces of nature played a major role. But these deaths were not...

Feb 24, 2014, 6:42 PM

To what do we say Amen?

Amen. Jewish tradition takes that word seriously. Amen is related to the word Emet, meaning “truth.” Amen declares, “What you have said is true!” Amen delineates the boundary of community. In his Laws of Blessings (1:13), Maimonides writes, “One...

Aug 20, 2013, 4:11 PM

A dangerous prayer

Believing one's fate is literally sealed on Yom Kippur misses the point, and no, God does not give us cancer

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Daniel Greyber is rabbi at Beth El Synagogue in Durham, NC and author of Faith Unravels: A Rabbi's Struggle With Grief and God.

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