Rabbi Daniel Fellman is a native of Omaha Nebraska. He graduated from Colorado College in 1996 with a B.A. in Political Science. He has also earned a Master of Arts in Hebrew Letters from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati and was ordained in June, 2005. While at the seminary, Rabbi Fellman wrote his thesis on An American Friendship: Harry Truman, Eddie Jacobson, and the Establishment of the State of Israel.

Rabbi Fellman has served as Student Rabbi in a number of congregations, including B’nai Israel in Natchez, Mississippi, Temple B’nai Israel in Petoskey, Michigan where he served for three years, United Hebrew Congregation in Joplin, Missouri, and Temple B’nai Moshe in LaSalle Illinois. He has also served at the University of Cincinnati Hillel, and summer rabbinic positions in Nebraska. During the summer of 1993, Rabbi Fellman interned at the White House in Washington, D.C.

Rabbi Fellman served as Assistant Rabbi at Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple in New Brunswick, New Jersey from July 2005-June 2008 at which time he became the Associate Rabbi- his current post.  He served as lead rabbi-in-residence in the first half of 2008 while the senior rabbi was on sabbatical.

Rabbi Fellman is an experienced and wonderful teacher. Among his various teaching experiences he has served on the faculty at the Yavneh Day School in Cincinnati and numerous religious schools. Rabbi Fellman has also served on the faculty of the URJ Kutz Camp for High School students and the Olin Sang Ruby Union Institute in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.

Rabbi Fellman is an Eagle Scout, was a Japan-U.S Senate Scholar in 1990, and was the founder of the Colorado College Hillel in 1994. He served on the Academic Affairs Committee at HUC-JIR and on the steering committee of the Catholic-Jewish Educators Dialogue of the American Jewish Committee in Cincinnati. He also served as the editor of the HUC Monthly and as a columnist for The Jewish Press of Omaha, Nebraska. Rabbi Fellman, his wife, Melissa, and sons Zachary and Jacob are settling in to their new home in Syracuse.