Danny Siegel
Danny Siegel (MHL, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1970) is a well-known author, lecturer, and poet. He is the author of nearly thirty books on Mitzvah heroes and practical and personalized Tzedakah, including Where Heaven and Earth Touch, a 500-selection anthology of Talmudic, midrashic, and halakhic material about living the Jewish life well. He has served as the Tzedakah Resource Person on the United Synagogue Youth Israel Pilgrimage for more than four decades. Ziv Tzedakah Fund, the nonprofit Mitzvah organization he founded in 1981, distributed more than $13,000,000 to worthy individuals and projects until it ceased operations in 2008.