Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg

Baltimore’s Legacy Synagogues with City Roots Should Engage their Neighborhoods of Origins

by Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg | Dec 12, 2018 | Community, Community Resources, Education, Religion, Spirituality

Politicians, musicians, comedians and others often ask, “Will it play in Peoria?” At Beth Am Synagogue, we frequently ask ourselves something like, “Will it resonate in Reservoir Hill?” Attention to the surrounding community is central to the “New Jewish Neighborhood”...

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Showing Up Offers a Means of Resisting Violence and Hate

by Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg | Nov 16, 2018 | Community, Community Resources, Education, Spirituality

“First they came for the socialists …” said Martin Niemöller, the German pastor who came to resist Nazi dictatorship. “Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out — because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me — and there was no one left to...

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Crossing the Mason-Dixon Line Offers A Sobering Reminder about Tyranny

by Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg | Oct 26, 2018 | Community, Religion, Spirituality

The day after Yom Kippur, needing to clear my head, I loaded my bike onto my electric vehicle and took a (guilt-free) drive north to the NCR Trail. From the parking lot north of Monkton, I biked 10 miles along one of the oldest rail-trails in the country. It was a...

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Less than You Can, All that You Should

by Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg | Sep 28, 2018 | Community, Community Resources, Religion, Spirituality

We’ve just concluded the High Holy Day season. On Rosh Hashanah, I spoke to my congregation on the topic of justice. Here are some excerpts from my sermon.  Click here or go to YouTube to hear the full sermon. Less than you can. All that you should. … A better year, a...

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Relational Justice

by Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg | Aug 31, 2018 | Community, Community Resources, Religion, Spirituality

Interconnectedness and relationships are embedded in the roots of justice itself. One of the Talmud’s most famous stories involves Hillel who, long before he was a campus student organization, was a man and rabbi — indeed the consummate rabbi’s rabbi. Hillel was...

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