Lisa Laura Goldstein (born 9 October 1965) is an American Reform rabbi and, from 2011 to 2019, was the executive director of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality, an organization based in New York City.
Her mother, Ruth, is the daughter of the celebrated paleoecologist Heinz A. Lowenstam and a great-niece of Spandau Synagogue's rabbi Arthur Lowenstamm.
Goldstein studied history at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and subsequently trained for the rabbinate at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (in New York and Los Angeles) where she also received a master's degree in Jewish education.
[5] From 1991 to 1993 she was assistant rabbi at Congregation Shaare Emeth, a Reform synagogue in Creve Coeur, Missouri.
[6] Since June 2020, Rabbi Goldstein is offering online courses on meditation, resilience and Jewish mysticism.