Rabbi Goldie Milgram

Rabbi Goldie Milgram is founding director of Reclaiming Judaism (2000), and founding editor-in-chief of Reclaiming Judaism Press since 2011. A Covenant Award finalist, she travels internationally as a teacher of Torah and Jewish spiritual practices. Known for her love of Judaism, engaging teaching methods, careful scholarship, and irrepressible humor, Rabbi Milgram offers experiential workshops, lectures, guidance, services, rituals and professional Jewish storytelling world-wide. She has authored and edited numerous books and articles.

Rabbi Milgram's goal is to be of service to seekers and teachers interested in an ever more meaningful Jewish life and understanding of Judaism. She has taught and/or consulted in over 458 cities and 72 countries, for groups as diverse as Esalen, the 92nd Street Y, the AMA, JDC, Isabella Freedman, NewCaje, and hundreds of congregations, Jewish community centers and universities world-wide.

A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with studies at Wharton and Hebrew University, with an MSW from Yeshiva University's School of Social Work, Rabbi Milgram also holds a doctorate from New York Theological Seminary. She helped develop and completed the first Bibliodrama training offered by Dr. Peter Pitzele and has also trained in Focusing with Dr. Gene Gendlin.

Rabbi Goldie Milgram graduated as a rabbi from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, and has received the honor of three lineage ordinations from Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi - that of rabbi, mashpi'ah (spiritual guide) and as his personal emissary (shlicha).

Rabbi Milgram has also served as Dean of The Academy for Jewish Religion, on the faculty of several seminaries, as a Jewish Federation executive, planning and allocations director, and as a pulpit rabbi. She has headed a Board of Jewish Education and founded independent Jewish newspapers, as well as one of the early Holocaust oral history archives. She has headed federally funded RSVP and CETA programs, served as a bio-medical researcher, Hebrew High School principal, BJE Director, and Jewish and nature programming director for a summer camp. 

"Reb Goldie," as Rabbi Milgram is affectionately called by her students, was founding chairperson of the first program of gender studies at a Jewish institution of higher learning, which evolved after her tenure into what is known today as Kolot, a department of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She also served for over a decade as founding innovator of, and anchorperson for NBC 40's Health Watch, America's first public health talk television program. Full Resume