Rabbi Rachel Goldenberg
Malkhut, Queens
After more than a decade serving wonderful established pulpits, Rachel (she/her) moved back to the urban core of New York City to form an open, outreach-driven community around authentic, yet experimental, ecstatic and contemplative Jewish spiritual practices.
Our vision is to transform Jewish people, fellow travelers and the world by creating connections to each other, to the One and to our greater community. We practice ecstatic, musical, and contemplative prayer, mindfulness meditation through a Jewish lens, study of Jewish sources, and social justice work.
About Rachel
(pronounced Ra-khel רחל )
Influenced by her training through the Institute for Jewish Spirituality, she teaches mindfulness meditation and chant-based prayer in order to open our hearts to one another and to the Divine. She also teaches Torah through the lens of mindfulness. These practices of prayer and study also move us to recognize our own suffering and that of others, and to engage in social justice from a place of compassion.
Rabbi Goldenberg received her ordination from HUC-JIR in New York in 2003 and served as Assistant/Associate rabbi at Temple Emanu-El in Dallas, TX and Rabbi of CBSRZ in Chester, Connecticut. She has served on the faculty of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality and is a graduate of Institute for Jewish Spirituality’s Clergy Leadership and Jewish Mindfulness Teacher Training programs. She serves on the Rabbinic Council of JFREJ (Jews for Racial and Economic Justice,) has served as co-Chair of T’ruah: the Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, and is a member of the JStreet Rabbinic Cabinet.
Rabbi Goldenberg and her family happily reside in Jackson Heights, Queens! She is married to Jim Talbott, and they are the parents of two teenagers, Amina and Ziv Goldenberg.