Danny Ehrlich

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Apr 19, 2020, 9:21 PM

Medical Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto – Yom Hashoah in the Shadow of Corona

This week, as we mark Yom Hashoah – Holocaust Memorial Day, people worldwide are expressing their appreciation to the amazing health care workers and volunteers who are giving their all to try to save lives. Yom HaShoah is thus...

Apr 7, 2020, 10:14 PM

Isolation Seder in Tashkent 37 Years Ago

Seder this year will be just the 3 of us rather than our usual crowd of 20 – 30 children, grandchildren, extended family and friends. I was thinking that this has to be my smallest seder ever…and then I remembered...

Feb 1, 2018, 7:53 PM

Can Poles and Jews Find Common Ground?

The Polish legislation criminalizing the characterization of the people and state of Poland as being complicit in the mass murder of the Jews during WWII, has renewed interest and discussion about Polish – Jewish relations before, during and after...

Sep 30, 2016, 3:16 PM

Vienna: Missing Its Jews?

Travelling with Jewish consciousness in Europe is not easy. There are constant reminders of past pogroms, expulsions and massacres and in Western European cities like Paris and London,a resurgence of anti-Semitism (often under the guise of anti-Zionism). Yet Europe provides...

Dec 19, 2015, 11:53 PM

Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and the Refugee Crises

We Jews are naturally very sympathetic to the plight of refugees. After all, most of us are descendant from generations of refugees who fled persecution in the Christian and Muslim worlds over the centuries. My mother’s family came to...

May 6, 2015, 1:24 PM

Yom Ha’atzmaut at Majdanek

When friends and neighbors here in Israel asked me where I would be this year for Yom Ha'atzmaut – Israel Independence Day, they were somewhat taken aback by my answer: Majdanek. Huh? That is not the answer that they...

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About Me

Daniel Ehrlich is the Educational Director at Keshet: Educational Journeys In the USA he was the founding director of the Tehilla Aliyah Movement a Director of Yeshiva University’s Communal Services Division and Executive Director of the Bnei Akiva Religious Zionist Youth Movement After making Aliyah in 1996 with his wife Batya and their three children, he worked for the Chief Rabbinate of Israel as Coordinator of Diaspora Affairs, was the Program Director for the Coalition for Missing Israeli Soldiers, served as Editor of the Rabbi Amiel Publications Project of the Religious Zionists of America and was a regional coordinator for Christian Friends of Israeli Communities. He also served as the high holiday Cantor of the Ashkenazi Jewish community of Curacao (Netherlands Antilles) for nearly 20 years. Mr. Ehrlich earned Masters Degrees from Yeshiva University in Community Social Work and in Jewish History and is a graduate of the Israeli Ministry of Tourism Tour Guides Course. His special areas of expertise include the development of early Christianity, Christian-Jewish relations, Holocaust Education and Contemporary Jewish and Israeli Identity.He has served as “Israel Educator” for a wide variety of Jewish, Interfaith and Christian groups. Mr. Ehrlich is the Director of Keshet’s Jewish Roots Journeys to Europe. He has been a scholar in residence and guest lecturer at churches and synagogues in the United Sates, Canada and Israel.