Our Transitional Rabbi

RABBI DANNY GOTTLIEB

Rabbi Danny Gottlieb was born in Toronto, Ontario, and raised in the Canadian Reform Movement. Upon his ordination in 1980 from the Leo Baeck College in London, England, Rabbi Gottlieb returned to Toronto, where he was among the leadership of the Canadian Reform Movement for more than 30 years, serving as Associate Rabbi/Director of Education at Temple Har Zion in Thornhill, Ontario, later as URJ Regional Director and Executive Director of ARZA-Canada, and for fifteen years as rabbi of Temple Kol Ami in Thornhill. He has served on the North American Board of ARZA and the World Union for Progressive Judaism, as well as the Reform Movement's Commission on Religious Education.

Rabbi Gottlieb was among the founders of the Reform Mikveh of Greater Toronto, Kolel: The Centre for Adult Jewish Learning, and is the Founding Rabbi of URJ Camp George, the URJ’s summer camp in Canada.

Rabbi Gottlieb served for ten years in San Francisco before his retirement and continues to serve Congregation Am Tikvah as Rabbi Emeritus. Since his retirement, Rabbi Gottlieb has served several congregations as a Synagogue Management Consultant specializing in congregations experiencing or anticipating challenging transitions. City Shul is the second congregation that Rabbi Gottlieb has served as a Transitional Rabbi following the retirement of their founding rabbi.