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Daniel Greer: how he started; from where he started!

Parents and Origin
Rabbi Daniel Greer was a very ordinary New York-born Jewish kid with educated hardworking parents. His father Moses Greer was a graduate from the City College of new work and worked as a wholesale reseller of wool. Daniel Greer’s mother, Angele Greer was an intellectual educated Egyptian lady with a graduation from the University of Paris. Both of Daniel’s parents where modern orthodox Jews and much of their orthodox ways of thinking were embedded in the way Daniel thought and saw the world. He was brought up attending day school and later his high schooling at Manhattan Talmudical Academy.
Schooling and High-Schooling
On successful completion of high school education, he joined the Princeton University to pursue his graduation and further qualification. For the first two years in the university, he used to eat alone in his own room so that he could have kosher food. For his junior year, he studied biology major at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem after which he switched to studying Near Eastern major. He also spent a year studying Talmud and related subjects from Joseph Soloveitchik after graduating from Princeton.
Graduation and his way ahead.
Greer, thereafter, entered the Yale Law School to pursue his in Law, where he found Jerry Brown as his roommate. He also met Gary Hart and Michael Horowitz as acquaintances in his Yale Law class. Rabbi Daniel Greer’s childhood, his parents, their bring-up and his experiences have a significant influence on the kind of person he grew up to be and on the kind of work he did. The journey of his life so far has given him positive and negative acclamations but there are people how to appreciate and adore him for his contribution and concern for the society.





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