Rabbi Goldie Milgram is founding director of ReclaimingJudaism.org. 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, "Reb Goldie" offers
sessions of spiritual guidance, experiential workshops, professional
storytelling, and lectures on the following topics: Jewish prayer,
theology, Torah, Hebrew, mitzvot, rites of passage, Jewish bioethics, holy days, Shabbat
and peoplehood.
Rabbi Milgram's goal is to be of service to seekers and teachers
interested in an ever more meaningful Jewish life or understanding of
Judaism. She considers the wide range of ways of being Jewish from
secular through Hassidic to be equally important and her teachings
embody empowerment of the individual, support for communities,
respectful pluralism and engaged spirituality as core principles.
Dubbed "Reb Goldie" for her style of
teaching by a Squarer rebbe while on a teaching tour in the former
Soviet Union, Rabbi Milgram has taught in over 100 cities and 29
countries over the past decade for groups as diverse as Esalen, the 92nd
Street Y, the American Medical Association, American Psychiatric
Association, Elat Chayyim, Princeton, Bard & Gettysburg Colleges, Rancho
La Puerta, the Focusing Institute, CAJE, and numerous Jewish Community
Centers, congregations, and universities world-wide.
Rabbi Milgram is author of the
Reclaiming Judaism trilogy published by Jewish Lights as well as the
groundbreaking text for families and communities which led her to become
a Covenant Award Finalist, Make Your Own Bar/Bat Mitzvah: A Personal
Guide to Creating a Meaningful Rite of Passage (Jossey-Bass
Publishing).
Rabbi Milgram served at The Academy for Jewish Religion in the capacity
of Dean of Professional Development and is also a member of the
Aleph Ordination and Haspa-ah Program faculties. She holds a doctorate
from New York Theological Seminary. Her ordinations are from the
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College as well as Rabbi Zalman
Schachter-Shalomi. She also holds an MSW from Yeshiva's University's
Wurzweiler School of Social Work.
Reb Goldie's prior career phases include serving as spiritual leader of
Temple Beth El of Hammonton, NJ for almost a decade, founding and
directing a Holocaust video archive, serving as a Jewish Federation
Executive, heading a Board of Jewish Education, founding an independent
Jewish newspaper and serving as founding Judaism section editor for the Philadelphia Jewish Voice, heading a
CETA program, and several decades back serving as a bio-medical research
assistant in the field of psychosomatic medicine.
Rabbi Milgram is married to
Hubbatzin Barry Bub, MD.
author of
Communication Skills that Heal: A practical approach
to a new professionalism in medicine (Radcliffe
Publishing Oxford UK 2006)
and director of Advanced
Physician Awareness Training. Together they often team-teach as well as
team grand-parent six grandchildren, each wonderfully unique young
beings made possible by our first marriages.
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Rabbi Shohama Wiener is Rosh Hashpa'ah-- Director of Spiritual Direction
and Development for ReclaimingJudaism.org as well as for the Aleph
Ordination Programs, and founding director of
HASHPA'AH, a formal program
for ordination as Spiritual Director and Mashpia (Jewish Spiritual
Guide). Rabbi Shohama Wiener
brings over twenty years of experience to her work in spiritual guidance
for Reclaiming Judaism. She is also the Rabbi of the friendly, deep and
delightful Temple Beth-El of
City Island, NY.
Rabbi Shohama Harris Wiener was the first woman in history to head a
Jewish seminary, and the first to introduce meditation and spirituality
into rabbinical and cantorial training. From 1994-2001 she served as
President and Spiritual Director of The Academy for Jewish Religion, New
York, the only pluralistic seminary ordaining rabbis and cantors. Prior
to her appointment as President, she headed AJR in the role of Executive
Dean.
During her 15-year term of leadership at the AJR, she spearheaded the
addition of a Cantorial Program leading to ordination as Cantor/Hazzan,
and the opening of a California branch, with programs leading to
rabbinical and cantorial ordination.
Rabbi Wiener is a graduate of Wellesley College and Harvard University
Graduate School of Education, a rabbinical ordinee of The Academy for
Jewish Religion and recipient of the Doctor of Ministry degree from New
York Theological Seminary. In addition, she received an honorary
rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi.
She is editor of The Fifty-Eighth Century-- A Jewish Renewal
Sourcebook (Jason Aronson, 1996), co-editor of Worlds of Jewish
Prayer (Jason Aronson, 1993), and contributor to numerous journals
and books, including Jewish
Spiritual Direction: An Innovative Guide from Traditional & Contemporary
Sources and also Meditation
from the Heart of Judaism (ed. Avram Davis, Jewish Lights, 1997).
Rabbi Wiener teaches and leads workshops on topics related to Jewish
meditation and healing, blessings, personal prayer, transformative
rituals, and spiritual journeys. She is a composer of spiritual music,
and uses her guitar to enhance her teaching. Shohama is known for her
warm and personalized ceremonies, including weddings, baby namings, and
healing rituals. She is is frequently sought out as an experienced
spiritual counselor and guide.
Shohama Wiener is married to Alan
Dattner, M.D., a physician specializing in Nutritional Medicine and
Dermatology, who often assists her in leading workshops on spirituality
and healing. In their blended family, they have four children and six
grandchildren.
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