Rabbi Elizabeth W. Goldstein
Rabbi Elizabeth W. Goldstein, PhD is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Gonzaga University. She specializes in Hebrew
Bible and Jewish Women's Studies. Currently, she teaches courses on Judaism and Gender, Contemporary Israel, Hebrew language and Biblical Studies. Rabbi Goldstein also serves as the Jewish Chaplain on campus serving the needs of Jewish students and faculty in a midsize Jesuit, Catholic campus in Spokane, Washington, Rabbi Goldstein's work fosters the connections between multiple communities: Jews and Christians, students and faculty, as well as Gonzaga and the Jewish community.
Goldstein has studied in Orthodox, Conservative, Renewal and Reform community contexts over the course of her professional life. She has served as the Chair of the Program Committee for the Ohalah Jewish Renewal Clergy) national conference and maintains membership in both Ohalah and CCAR (Reform Rabbinic organization). Goldstein was ordained from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 2001 and holds a PhD in Hebrew Bible/Ancient History from the University of California at San Diego (2010).
She is author of Impurity in Gender in the Hebrew Bible (Lexington, 2015) and is in the process of completing Women in the Jewish Traditions (NYU Press). Her writings can also be found in The Torah: A Woman's Commentary and in other volumes and journals. In addition to teaching at Gonzaga, Goldstein teaches for the Aleph Ordination Program.
Rabbi Elizabeth works with all stages of the lifecycle from naming rituals to weddings, to an occasional B’nai Mitzvah and of course, she works with families on end of life rituals and funerals.
Rabbi Elizabeth W. Goldstein, PhD
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Gonzaga University
Jewish Chaplain, Office of Mission and Ministry
[email protected]
Bible and Jewish Women's Studies. Currently, she teaches courses on Judaism and Gender, Contemporary Israel, Hebrew language and Biblical Studies. Rabbi Goldstein also serves as the Jewish Chaplain on campus serving the needs of Jewish students and faculty in a midsize Jesuit, Catholic campus in Spokane, Washington, Rabbi Goldstein's work fosters the connections between multiple communities: Jews and Christians, students and faculty, as well as Gonzaga and the Jewish community.
Goldstein has studied in Orthodox, Conservative, Renewal and Reform community contexts over the course of her professional life. She has served as the Chair of the Program Committee for the Ohalah Jewish Renewal Clergy) national conference and maintains membership in both Ohalah and CCAR (Reform Rabbinic organization). Goldstein was ordained from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 2001 and holds a PhD in Hebrew Bible/Ancient History from the University of California at San Diego (2010).
She is author of Impurity in Gender in the Hebrew Bible (Lexington, 2015) and is in the process of completing Women in the Jewish Traditions (NYU Press). Her writings can also be found in The Torah: A Woman's Commentary and in other volumes and journals. In addition to teaching at Gonzaga, Goldstein teaches for the Aleph Ordination Program.
Rabbi Elizabeth works with all stages of the lifecycle from naming rituals to weddings, to an occasional B’nai Mitzvah and of course, she works with families on end of life rituals and funerals.
Rabbi Elizabeth W. Goldstein, PhD
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Gonzaga University
Jewish Chaplain, Office of Mission and Ministry
[email protected]
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High Holy Days Sermons 2023
Fri Evening Sermon RH 5784 by Rabbi Elizabeth W. Goldstein 2023
Some of you know that I recently just experienced a death of a close member of the family. My co-parent’s mother, my mother-in-law for almost 30 years, went from the status of otherwise healthy into severe decline due to complications from a recent surgery. Last week, my children lost their first grandparent, and a woman who has been part of my family configuration for more than half of my life was here and gone. As much as we try to plan out the schedule of our lives, when we apply for grad school, if and when we marry, if and when we have children, we cannot plan when we choose to experience death and loss. And as some of us know, it can hit us quite fast, knocking us from school and work schedules, knocking us from whatever it is we are paying attention to. It is like being socked in the stomach. It is not my first loss—I have said goodbye to four very special grandparents, aunts and uncles who have had a deep impact on my life. But this is a new stage, the stage of losing a parent, the stage where I help my own children as they grieve a loss. [Read More] Yom Kippur Sermon by Elizabeth Goldstein 2023
God is not in the institution. I used to tell myself this when I was kicked out of rabbinical school. God is not in the institution. Victims of clergy abuse in the Catholic church tell themselves this. God is not in the institution; countless interfaith couples and their children tell themselves this when they feel shunned by a synagogue who define Jews only as one born of a Jewish mother. God is not in the institution.[Read More] |
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Windsor, Ontario, Canada 2023
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