Rabbi Goldie Milgram is founding director of ReclaimingJudaism.org and
editor-in-chief of Reclaiming Judaism Press. 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
experiential workshops, lectures, hashpa'ah, "Jewish spiritual
direction and meditation", and professional
storytelling world-wide. A Covenant Foundation finalist for excellence
as a Jewish educator, she has also been decorated as a Most
Distinguished Citizen by the American Cancer Society for developing the
first health education for television, under the auspices of NBC TV 40.
Her major current initiatives are developing pan-denominational
resources for Living a Mitzvah-Centered Life and based on her doctoral
research, spearheading a National Bar/Bat Mitzvah Institute
Initiative.
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. 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 300 cities and 50
countries over the past decade 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.
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). She also edited the first Reclaiming Judaism Press volume:
Seeking and Soaring: Jewish Approaches to Spiritual Direction.
Rabbi Milgram has served as a Dean of The Academy for Jewish Religion
and she presently teaches both the Pastoral Counseling Intensive and
Bioethics course for the ALEPH Ordination Programs. A graduate of the
University of Pennsylvania, she holds a doctorate from New York
Theological Seminary. Reb Goldie graduated as a rabbi from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College,
and holds the honor of three lineage ordinations Rabbi Zalman
Schachter-Shalomi - that of rabbi, mashpi'ah (spiritual guide)
and as his personal emissary (shaliach), as well as an MSW from Yeshiva's University's
Wurzweiler School of Social Work. Rabbi Milgram also trained in
Bibliodrama under Peter Pitzele and in Focusing with Dr. Gene Gendlin.
Reb Goldie's prior career phases include serving as spiritual leader of
Temple Beth El of Hammonton, NJ for almost a decade. She founded one of
the early Holocaust oral history video archives, served as a Jewish
Federation Executive, headed a Board of Jewish Education, founded an independent
Jewish newspaper, is founding Judaism section editor for the
Philadelphia Jewish Voice, headed RSVP and CETA programs, 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 delight in 5 children and
seven grandchildren from previous marriages and on occasion, will
team-teach.
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Rabbi Shohama Wiener serves as Rosh
Hashpa'ah-- Director of Spiritual Direction and Development for
ReclaimingJudaism.org and for the
ALEPH
Ordination Programs, a "seminary without walls," and as Founding
Director of HASHPA'AH,
ALEPH's training for Jewish clergy to receive ordination as Spiritual
Director and Mashpia (Jewish Spiritual Guide). Rabbi Shohama is
currently creating a partnership with
New York Theological
Seminary for HASHPA'AH graduates who want to earn a Doctor of
Ministry degree. She is also the Rabbi of the inclusive and innovative 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 first pluralistic seminary
ordaining rabbis and cantors. Prior to her appointment as President,
she headed AJR in the role of Executive Dean. Currently she holds
the title of President Emerita. In 2010 she was selected by the
Jewish Daily Forward as one of the
Top 50 Female Rabbis.
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
ordination from Rabbi
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi as mashpi'ah ruchanit, Jewish spiritual
director and guide.
Because of her pioneering work in the field of Jewish
spiritual development, she was chosen to be the honoree of the
anthology Seeking
and Soaring: Jewish Approaches to Spiritual Direction (ed.
Goldie Milgram, Reclaiming Judaism Press 2009). 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 Meditation
from the Heart of Judaism (ed.
Avram Davis, Jewish Lights, 1997).
Rabbi Wiener is the developer of SHOHAM: Spiritual Healing of Heart
and Mind, a unique psychospiritual process based on Biblical texts
and mystical Jewish practices. She is also known for her uplifting
spiritual songs and inspirational guitar playing.
Shohama Wiener is married to Alan
Dattner, M.D., a physician specializing in Nutritional Medicine
and Dermatology, who often assists her in leading services and
workshops on spirituality and healing. In their blended family, they
delight in four adult children and six grandchildren.
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