Daniel is a laid back Australian who joined Hazon at the beginning of 2008.
He has an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Monash University in Melbourne, as well as a degree in Jewish Studies – part of which was learned at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Daniel enjoys travel and has backpacked through South East Asia and China, including a stint as volunteer English teacher in Danang, Vietnam. Daniel moved to Israel in 2006 where he studied at Yeshivat Hamivtar for a year before serving for six months in the IDF. After concluding his service he followed his girlfriend to the United States, a country he had never even visited before.
Daniel is passionate about Judaism as an active force for change in the world, and was most excited to be offered the opportunity to join Hazon. Daniel is enjoying his time in New York, although he desperately misses surfing and playing Australian sports.
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Hazon and The Jew & The Carrot may be the homes of the new Jewish food movement, but in a way the general food movement, even without the ‘Jewish’ modifier, is still very Jewish. I am not referring to the fact that, much like many progressive movements, a disproportionate number of the food movement’s major protagonists, like Michael Pollen, Peter Singer, or Mollie Katzen, are Jewish. Rather, that the questions and challenges posed by the food movement are the types of questions and challenges the Jewish tradition has been raising for millennia.
Remember… the first conflict we see in the Bible is over, of all things, forbidden fruit!
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