Daniel Friedman holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of New South Wales, Australia; a Master of Arts in Judaic Studies from Touro University; and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Alberta, Canada. In addition, he received semicha yadin yadin rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Gedalia Dov Schwartz, head of the Beth Din of America. He teaches courses on American politics, international relations, comparative politics, and the intersection of religion and foreign policy.

Friedman is the founder of the Center for Torah Values and has published over a dozen volumes of The Transformative Daf. He served as a rabbi for over two decades in pulpits across the globe. He was the inaugural chair of the National Holocaust Monument of Canada and accompanied Prime Minister Harper on his official visit to Israel. He represented UK at the World Holocaust Forum in 2020 at Yad Vashem, served as Assistant Chief Examiner for Religious Studies for the Caribbean Examinations Council, was elected Vice-President of the Rabbinical Council of America, and appointed to the Cabinet of Canadians in honor of Canada’s sesquicentennial year. He is a recipient of the Alberta Medal. 

Education

• Bachelor of Commerce, University of New South Wales
• Master of Arts in Judaic Studies, Touro University
• Master of Arts in Political Science, University of Alberta
• PhD in Political Science, University of Alberta

Research

• Christian Interest Groups and US foreign policy in the Middle East

Publications

• Sharabi, S., Bassal, R., Friedman, N., Drori, Y., Alter, H., Glatman-Freedman, A., Hindiyeh, M., Cohen, D., Mendelson, E., Shohat, T., & Mandelboim, M. (2017). Forty Five Percent of the Israeli Population were Infected with the Influenza B Victoria virus During the Winter season 2015-16. Oncotarget, 9 (5), 6623-6629. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.23601
• Friedman, D. J., Al-Khatib, S. M., Zeitler, E. P., Han, J., Bardy, G. H., Poole, J. E., . . . Kadish, A. H. (2017). New York Heart Association class and the survival benefit from primary prevention implantable cardioverter defibrillators: A pooled analysis of 4 randomized controlled trials. American Heart Journal, 191, 21-29.
• Zeitler, E. P., Al-Khatib, S. M., Friedman, D. J., Han, J. Y., Poole, J. E., Bardy, G. H., & Kadish, A. H. (2017). Predicting Appropriate Shocks in Patients with Heart Failure: Patient Level Meta-Analysis from SCD-HeFT and MADIT II. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, 28 (11), 1345-1351. Retrieved from https://touroscholar.touro.edu/president_pubs/163

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Languages

• English
• Hebrew