Golub was the rabbi of Chavurah Aytz Chayim (Stamford, CT),[1] and the host of L'Chayim, a talk show he created in 1979 in which he interviewed prominent Jewish figures.
After high school, Golub attended Columbia College where he was the president of the Jewish organization on campus, Seixas Menorah.
[4] At WKCR, he produced and hosted "Approaches To Religious Concepts", in which Protestant, Catholic and Jewish leaders engaged in discussion.
Golub attended Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion for rabbinical school after he graduated from Columbia.
[3] Golub explained that he was a "Humanistic" Jew, favoring Midrashic or Rabbinic approaches to the Tradition over labeling himself "Reform" or "Reconstructionist".
Also in 1972, Golub became the founding rabbi of a chavurah in Stamford, CT, called Chavurat Aytz Chayim, with an emphasis on adult study and family participation.
In 1973, a similar group of families in neighboring Greenwich, Connecticut, Chavurat Deevray Torah, asked Golub to become their founding rabbi on alternate weekends.
Golub held an honorary doctorate from HUC-JIR, and was listed as one of Newsweek Magazine's top 50 most influential rabbis in America in 2009.
[15] His production of The Bridges of Madison County starred Kelli O'Hara with an original score by Jason Robert Brown.