Paul J.’s son carries Dolf’s name into a life shaped by Israel, Jewish education, the rabbinate and the work of returning family memory to public history.
Daniel was born on 16 April 1990, the son of Paul J. Reichenbach and Judith Newman. His middle name, Dolph, carries forward the name of his grandfather Adolf “Dolf” Reichenbach, linking a life begun in the United States to the branch of the family that escaped Germany.
Israel became part of Daniel’s own formation through study, travel, Jewish education and service in the Israel Defense Forces. A photograph from 2013 or 2014 records him during a training exercise; another preserves a quieter act of service as he blesses a Birthright participant during an informal bar mitzvah at the Southern Excavations egalitarian prayer area beside the Western Wall.
Daniel studied for the rabbinate at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion. He was photographed at the New York campus in 2022 and was ordained there on 5 May 2024. His public work has included convening and speaking within Reform Jewish life, including introducing Rabbi Ami Hirsch as a keynote speaker at Recharging Reform Judaism.
The archive is also part of that work. Daniel has gathered the family’s photographs, documents and testimony; returned with relatives to the places where earlier generations lived and died; and built this public record with his father. A 2025 photograph of Daniel and Paul together in Berlin holds the story in one frame: the son of a refugee’s son and the next generation standing again in Germany, not to close the history but to carry it forward.
Known household
Recorded connections
- Paul J. Reichenbach · father
- Judith Newman · mother
- Adolf “Dolf” Reichenbach · grandfather and namesake
Sources
Records and testimony
- Seven personal and family photographs supplied and identified by Rabbi Daniel Dolph Reichenbach, 9 August 2026 (RB-PHO-0313–0319)
- Family account supplied by Rabbi Daniel Dolph Reichenbach, August 2026
- Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, Class of 2024 ordination announcement
- Reichenbach Family Archive accession record, 9 August 2026
Evidence note
Several photographs preserve a known setting without an exact date or identified photographer. The IDF image is dated from Daniel’s memory to 2013 or 2014; those limits remain part of the object record.