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Daniel A. Weiner has been the Senior Rabbi of Temple de Hirsch Sinai in Seattle, Washington since July 2001. He is a well known Rabbi, a blogger and the author of Good God: Spirituality for the Rest of Us (2008).

Born in Cincinnati and raised in San Francisco, Rabbi Weiner received a BA in Communication Studies from the University of California at Los Angeles, where he was Commencement Speaker in 1986. He earned his Masters Degree from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1989.

Ordained in 1991, Rabbi Weiner served as the Assistant/Associate Rabbi at Baltimore Hebrew Congregation from 1991-1996 and then as the Senior Rabbi of Temple Ohev Sholom in Harrisburg.

Rabbi Weiner is a founder of Faith Forward, a cutting edge interfaith organization that highlights and shares the inextricable bonds between progressive values and religious principles.

He is a popular lecturer at Seattle University's school of Theology and Ministry, dedicated to outreach to unaffiliated and interfaith families. He advocates for the intersection of film and transcendent religious values through his "Spirit on the Screen" presentations. Weiner has been lauded for his speech on “Partners of Jews” and his leadership of the innovative and spiritual Rock Shabbat services. His columns have appeared in the Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer; he is a frequent guest on Seattle and Denver radio and television in the Pacific Northwest.

He is the son of Rabbi Martin S. Weiner, who is an editor of the new Reform prayer book, Mishkan T’filah, and who recently retired as Senior Rabbi of Congregation Sherith Israel in San Francisco.