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Daniel R. Weiss

Jul 30, 2026, 8:32 AM

A member of the faculty who taught me a new understanding of adaptive leadership at a conference last year reached out recently with a question that sounds simple and isn't: How are you actually using it? It's a fair question...

Mar 31, 2026, 7:21 AM

Go and Learn: What the Passover Seder Has Always Known About Education

"Go and Learn": What the Passover Seder Has Always Known About Education Every year at my cousin's Passover Seder, the same ritual played out. His younger brother was made to read the section of the Haggadah about the wicked son....

Nov 6, 2025, 11:14 PM

Why Middle School in Jewish Day School Matters So Much

Parents often ask me why I believe the Middle School years in a Jewish Day School are so important. Years ago, when I taught Jewish history and Jewish text to Middle Schoolers, I saw firsthand how powerful those years...

Feb 21, 2025, 9:15 AM

‘HaYom Kamti… Todah Elohim’

On Wednesday night, February 5th, my wife and I arrived in Israel and attended the Hanan Ben Ari concert at the Menora Arena in Tel Aviv. For most of the past 17 months, since October 7, the songs of...

Jan 24, 2025, 5:36 PM

Why Jewish Day Schools?

Last year, two weeks after October 7, I wrote a post on why Jewish Day Schools matter now more than ever. I did not imagine what would transpire this past year. Although I knew that October 7, 2023 made...

Sep 8, 2024, 5:46 PM

Broken Hearts

It’s been a week. It has been a week since I made Havdalah with my family, my wife, and our three sons. It has been a week since we prepared to send our oldest son back to Israel for...

Aug 2, 2024, 12:38 AM

A Surprise Blessing in the Grocery Store

Yesterday, I was stopped in the grocery store. I recognize that living in Memphis, Tennessee, with a Jewish population of roughly 8500, I can stick out like a sore thumb. I was wearing my Kippah, as I do every...

Feb 6, 2024, 11:48 PM

Recognizing Everyone’s Unique Ability

Sometimes I am different.
Sometimes I am the same.
But I am always worthy.

Photo from Adi Negev-Nahalat Eran

There are experiences and places in our lives whose impact can be felt days, weeks, months, and even years later. For me, visiting Mechva Alon and ADI Negev – Nahalat Eran, over two days in July 2023, was such...

Oct 19, 2023, 9:05 PM

Why Jewish day schools matter now more than ever

Waking up on October 7, 2023, and hearing about the terror in Israel is a lot to handle. Terror anywhere is hard to understand. Even more so when it happens to your friends, your family, and in a place...

Jul 24, 2023, 6:14 AM

Meeting the Needs of All Citizens

It has now been a week since the conclusion of the KKL-JNF World Education Conference. Together with 250 other educators from 22 different countries, I saw a part of Israel that I have not seen on my previous 15...

About Me

Dr. Daniel R. Weiss has been the Head of School at Bornblum Jewish Community School in Memphis, TN, since 2018. Daniel earned his bachelor's in Jewish Studies from The Ohio State University, a master's in Jewish Education from Siegel College, a doctorate from Northeastern University, and is in the Smikha program at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah. He has over 25 years of experience working in Jewish Day Schools. He is a proud husband and father of three.