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 Rabbi Daniel Polish
Rabbi Daniel Polish serves as spiritual leader of Congregation Shir Chadash of the Hudson Valley in Poughkeepsie.
Rabbi Polish was ordained at the Cincinnati campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. He earned his Ph.D. in the History of Religion from Harvard University. He is a widely recognized as an authority in the area of interreligious affairs. He has written widely in the field including numerous articles in scholarly and popular journals and chapters in books. He has co-edited two books on the subject of the religious basis of social policy in the Catholic and Jewish traditions for Notre Dame University Press. He has also held numerous leadership roles in the Jewish community, most recently as Director of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism. Earlier, he served as Associate Executive Vice President and Director of the Washington Office of the Synagogue Council of America, the umbrella organization of the Reform, Conservative and Orthodox movements. He has also served as Director of Education of Inter-Met, an interfaith, inter-racial seminary in Washington D.C.
Rabbi Polish has also taught and written extensively in the area of Jewish religious thought. He has taught at Harvard, Tufts, the University of Maryland, and Occidental College and at the Los Angeles campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. He is currently teaching courses in World Religions and Bible at Mount Saint Mary College in the Hudson Valley. He has taught at numbers of adult learning programs including the national Kallot of the Reform movement, the Center for Religious Inquiry at Saint Bartholomew’s Church in Manhattan and the Skirball Institute at Temple Emanuel in Manhattan and Meah. Rabbi Polish’s articles on Jewish religious themes have appeared in numerous books and journals including Moment, Reform Judaism, The Journal of Biblical Literature, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, The Reconstructionist, and the Los Angeles Times. His Book Reviews appear regularly in the Journal of Ecumenical Studies and he is a frequent contributor to America, the Jesuit Weekly. He currently serves on the editorial board of the CCAR Journal and is the editor of its section on Maayanot/Primary Texts
His most recent book is Talking about God: Exploring the Meaning of Religious Life with Kierkegaard, Buber, Tillich and Heschel, published by SkyLight Paths. He is the author of two earlier books exploring Biblical themes: Bringing the Psalms to Life and Keeping Faith with the Psalms, both published by Jewish Lights publishers. He is also co- editor of Foundations of Social Policy in the Catholic and Jewish Traditions and Liturgical Foundations of Social Policy in the Catholic and Jewish Traditions both published by Notre Dame University Press.
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