Rabbi Goldie Milgram

Rabbi Dr. Goldie Milgram, MSW, also directs Reclaiming Judaism.org & Bmitzvah.org. 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 Program. 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 over 100 cities and 29 countries. She is presently passionately spearheading the Bar/Bat Mitzvah Institute Initiative, researched under a grant from the Nathan Cummings Foundation, it will focus on creating meaningful and effective ways of preparing students for Bar/Bat Mitzvah.

Rabbi Milgram is author of Meaning & Mitzvah: Daily Practices for Reclaiming Judaism through Prayer, God, Torah, Hebrew, Mitzvot & Peoplehood; Reclaiming Judaism as a Spiritual Practice: Holy Days & Shabbat; Living Jewish Life Cycle: How to Create Meaningful Jewish Rites of Passage at Every Stage of Life (Jewish Lights); and Own Bar/Bat Mitzvah: A Personal Approach to Creating a Meaningful Rite of Passage (Jossey-Bass). 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
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