A Rabbi s Reflections Retiring this month, Temple Israel s Harry Danziger looks back on 30-plus years in front of the ark.
Some people seem to know, even in childhood, what they want to be when they grow up.
Not Rabbi Harry Danziger. Growing up in Huntington, West Virginia, all he knew for sure was what he didn t want to be. My father was a rabbi, and I always said I wouldn t be one, he recalls with a chuckle. When the time came for him to go to college, he enrolled at the University of Cincinnati as an engineering major. Then one evening during his freshman year, a fraternity brother came to him to talk over a serious personal crisis.