The Yeshiva of New Haven Shul was started by Rabbi Daniel Greer and others over twenty years ago. Daniel Greer has served as the Rabbi since the founding of the Shul. The Shul offers daily, Shabbos and Holiday services, a full array of classes and lectures and hospitality for out-of-town guests.



Daniel Greer has been in public service for most of his adult life. He was First Deputy Commissioner of Ports and Terminals from 1968-1971 in the New York State administration of Mayor John Lindsay, and after that, Director of the Firearms Control Board in NYC. At Ports and Terminals, under Commissioner Pat Crossman, Greer initiated the repurposing of abandoned piers in Manhattan.



Rabbi Daniel Greer, founder of the Yeshiva of New Haven Shul, started the Shul as a place for the local Jewish community to gather and study Torah, Talmud, Jewish History, and the Jewish Prayer book. He grew up in New York City and was graduated from Princeton College. Following his graduation from Princeton, he used his Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to study Talmud with Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, before entering Yale Law. Daniel Greer was named a recipient of the 1979 Amudim Award of Torah Umesorah, the National Society for Hebrew Day Schools by Samuel C. Feuerstein, national president of the associations, and Rabbi Mendel Bernstein, annual awards dinner chairman.



In New Haven, Connecticut, where Rabbi Daniel Greer has resided since the late 1970s, he has served as a member of the Board of Police Commissioners, appointed by Mayor Frank Logue. The Board is comprised of five commissioners who give civilian oversight to the Police Department. Mayor Logue subsequently appointed Daniel Greer as a member of the New Haven Redevelopment Agency, where he was elected by its members as chairman of that Agency, serving in that capacity for over a decade.



The Yeshiva of New Haven Shul, under the leadership of Rabbi Daniel Greer, applied for and received the annual grant from the City of New Haven for improving the City’s infrastructure. After receiving the grant, Daniel Greer, along with the Yeshiva and its affiliates, started planting trees in the Edgewood Park neighborhood, and maintaining those trees during the first several years after planting. The Yeshiva of New Haven Shul is a place where the Jewish community gathers to study Torah. The Yeshiva offers a wide variety of programs for the local Jewish population and is committed to furthering Jewish knowledge and traditional Jewish practice.