PHOTO COURTESY OF DANIEL REICHENBACH
Daniel Reichenbach, right, a 2008 RHS graduate, poses with his friend Alex at their beret ceremony after finishing eight months of training.
Ridgewood HS grad’s path brings him to Israel
SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014, 12:31 AM
BY LAURA HERZOG
STAFF WRITER
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
Daniel Reichenbach’s path from a childhood in Ridgewood to an adulthood fighting for Israel in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) was not surprising for those who knew him best.
Some could say his decision was predestined.
“This is a long story, which started before I was born,” the 24-year-old man notes, pointing to his parents’ meeting in the ’70s – at a Jewish summer camp.
Though he was not “raised religious,” Reichenbach, who in November will have finished his second and last year of active IDF duty, found another home in Israel.
“All in all, I had a childhood and early adulthood that was saturated in Jewish identity, talk of love for Israel and the Jewish people. I traveled to Israel many times,” he said, and “fell in love with its history and the sheer improbability of its existence.”
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