Goldie Milgram

"Reb Goldie" founded (2000) and heads the 501C3 non-profit Reclaiming Judaism, serves as editor-in-chief for Reclaiming Judaism Press, and in 2014 she founded a three-year distance-learned training program for Jewish educators titled Jewish Spiritual Education (JSE): Maggid-Educator Training.

They begin with Reclaiming Judaism as a Spiritual Practice: Holy Days and Shabbat (Jewish Lights Publishing) and Make Your Own Bar/Bat Mitzvah: A Personal Approach to Creating a Meaningful Rite of Passage.

She founded and serves as Editor-in-Chief of Reclaiming Judaism Press and the Jewish spiritual education website and non-profit ReclaimingJudaism.org,[1] with a first book release in 2009 titled Seeking and Soaring: Jewish Approaches to Spiritual Direction.

Rabbi Milgram received her undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975, her MSW from the Wurzweiler School of Yeshiva University in 1979, her Masters in Hebrew Letters and Rabbinic Ordination from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 1993, and her doctorate from New York Theological Seminary.

She also holds rabbinic, mashpi'ah, and shaliach ordination from Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi of the Jewish Renewal movement.