Talk:Daniel E. Levenson

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- Daniel E. Levenson holds a BA in anthropology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and received a Master of Liberal Arts degree in English and American literature from Harvard University in 2006, and was chosen as the student commencement speaker for his program at Harvard. He has been an active leader in the Boston-area Jewish community for the last 7 years, serving on the Harvard Hillel Graduate student steering committee while a student at Harvard (including a year as chairman) where he worked with a variety of staff and student leaders in the reform, conservative, orthodox and reconstructionist movements to create meaningful cultural and educational experiences within the Harvard and Boston graduate student Jewish community. He was a member of the Geshercity Boston Leadership Cabinet during the 2008-2009 academic year and a member of Combined Jewish Philanthropies Pathways Advisory Committee from June 2008- December 2008. In December of 2007 he founded The New Vilna Review (www.newvilnareview.com) an online Jewish publication dealing with questions of individual and communal modern Jewish identity. This new publication features contributions from a diverse array of writers and thinkers, exploring everything from the early roots of the Hebrew sonnet in renaissance Italy, to the role of American Jewry in the creation of punk rock music.

Daniel has been writing for publication since the age of 13 and has done work for a variety of media outlets, including the Associated Press, WBUR radio (Boston's NPR station), The Daily Hampshire Gazette, the Patriot Ledger and the Jewish Advocate. His collection of poetry, "Are These My Lions?" which reflects his experience living in Jerusalem during the Second Lebanon War, has been very well received and has drawn the attention of both domestic US and foreign media. During the 2007-2008 academic year he was an adjunct professor in the English department at Mount Ida College in Newton, MA. He was appointed a non-resident tutor in creative and academic writing in Eliot House, Harvard College from September 2005 to June 2008, and a Literary Fellow in Dudley House, Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

He spent the spring and summer of 2009 living in Jerusalem, where he studied at the Pardes Institute and was named the Moty Hornstein Scholar, an award given to one student each year for leadership. While in Israel he has continued to play an active role in the Jewish community, and was selected to participate in the Jewish Agency For Israel/MASA Building Future Leaders program, and has subsequently done a variety of volunteer activities for the Jewish Agency and MASA, including helping with editorial projects as well as meeting with donors and visiting groups from the United States. He has been accepted to the rabbinical school at Hebrew College, in Newton, Massachusetts, and will begin studies there in the fall of 2009.