Goldie Milgram

Rabbi Goldie Milgram (born 1955) is an American rabbi, educator, and writer. She is best known as the "rebbe-on-the-road," for her travels world-wide as a seeker and teacher of Torah, Jewish spiritual practices and a specialist in experiential Jewish education.

Her publications are numerous. They begin with Reclaiming Judaism as a Spiritual Practice: Holy Days and Shabbat (Jewish Lights Publishing) and Make Your Own Bar/Bat Mitzvah: A Personal Approach to Creating a Meaningful Rite of Passage. She founded and serves as Editor-in-Chief of Reclaiming Judaism Press and the Jewish spiritual education website and non-profit ReclaimingJudaism.org,[1] with a first book release in 2009 titled Seeking and Soaring: Jewish Approaches to Spiritual Direction. Rabbi Milgram also serves as editor of the "Living Judaism" section of the Philadelphia Jewish Voice.[2]

Education

Rabbi Milgram received her undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975, her MSW from Yeshiva University in 1979, her Masters in Hebrew Letters and Rabbinic Ordination from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 1993, and her doctorate from New York Theological Seminary. She also holds rabbinic, mashpi'ah, and shaliach ordination from Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi of the Jewish Renewal movement.[3]

Books and a Sampling of Articles by Rabbi Goldie Milgram

References

  1. "Our Staff". Programs, Rituals, & Resources for Meaningful Jewish Living. Reclaiming Judaism.
  2. "Living Judaism". Philadelphia Jewish Voice. 2009.
  3. "RABBI DR. GOLDIE MILGRAM, FIRST RESIDENT RABBI FOR KOL HANESHAMA". Sarasota, Florida: Congregation Kol HaNeshama. Archived from the original on 25 July 2011.
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