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Rabbi Goldie Milgram
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Rabbi Goldie Milgram
Rabbi Dr. Goldie Milgram, MSW, directs
Reclaiming Judaism.org and
Bmitzvah.org.
A Philadelphia resident, she founded and also serves as Editor-in-Chief of
Reclaiming Judaism Press. She travels internationally much of the year as a
teacher and student of Torah and Jewish spiritual practices, and in winter
serves a four-month rabbi-in-residency for Kol
HaNeshamah in Sarasota, Florida.
A Covenant Foundation Award finalist for excellence as a Jewish educator, she
was dubbed "Reb Goldie" by a Squarer rebbe in the Ukraine while teaching for
Project Kesher post-Perestroika. Inventor and original co-anchor and producer of
Health Watch for NBC TV 40, she presently teaches Jewish Bioethics and Pastoral
Counseling for the Aleph Ordination Programs.
Along her life path thus far Rabbi Milgram has served as a Dean at The Academy
for Jewish Religion, a Jewish Federation executive, Hillel director, pulpit
rabbi, Jewish newspaper editor, religious school principal, Jewish camping
innovator, founder of the nation's third Holocaust archive as well as serving at
Princeton University, the 92nd St Y, Esalen, Bard & Gettysburg Colleges, Elat
Chayyim, National Havurah Institute, and as a speaker, service, ritual and
workshop leader in several hundred cities and many countries. She is presently
passionately spearheading the Bar/Bat Mitzvah Institute Initiative, researched
under a grant from the Nathan Cummings Foundation, which focuses on creating
meaningful and effective ways of preparing students for Bar/Bat Mitzvah. She
also heads the Reclaiming Judaism "Living a Mitzvah-Centered Life" initiative in
honor of Peninnah Schram.
Rabbi Milgram is author of:
Her guest columns have also appeared in Belief.net, Moment Magazine & the New York Times Op-Ed.
She can be contacted at
judaism @ pjvoice.com
Articles
Her most recent articles can be found at her user page.
Earlier articles can be found below:
April/May 2010: LimmudPhilly 2010 Pushing the Envelope
April/May 2010: Hope from Trauma
Jan/Feb 2010: Engaging New Torah Queeries
December 2009: Vaccinations and Judaism
Sept/Oct 2009: The Art of Skillful Irritation and the Museum of American Jewish History
June 2009: What Is Next for Kosher Living?
April 2009: LimmudPhilly successfully unites and delights
February 2009: Why’s a Nice Jewish Girl Spending a Year in Syria?
January 2009: Yocheved
Seidman
December 2008: Let
LimmudPhilly Bring Us All Together
December 2008: Moving from
Horror to Holiness
October 2008: The Kosher
Debacle: Ethics, Shame and the Teshuvah of Our People
September 2006: What's The
Point Of Judaism?
August 2006: Transformations
Of The Soul
July 2006: Why the Bat
Mitzvah Girl Wept
May 2006: Rebbe and Hubbatzin
on the Road Travelogue: Israel
February 2006: What does
Judaism have to say about organ donation?
October 2005: Why Jews are Like
Baking Powder?
August 2005: What Kind are You
July 2005: Loving and Listening:
Mezuzah Consciousness
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