Rabbi Goldie Milgram is best known for her innovative programs and resources that inspire meaningful Jewish living. Founder and director of the non-profit P'nai Yachadut-Reclaiming Judaism (www.reclaimingjudaism.org and bmitzvah.org) "Reb Goldie," as her students affectionately call her, also serves as Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Reclaiming Judaism Press. Known as the "Rebbe-On-The-Road" for her rabbinic style and extensively travelogued adventures as a teacher of Torah and Jewish spiritual practices, (available as a free e-book at ReclaimingJudaism.org), Rabbi Milgram has offered programs and/or served on faculty for institutions as diverse as the United Nations, the 92nd St Y, the American Medical and Psychiatric Associations, Esalen, Hadassah, UJC, and NCJW, Limmud, and hundreds of congregations, JCCs and communities across the full spectrum of Jewish practice world-wide. Cited by/published in media such as PBS, Newsweek, Moment Magazine, the Forward, Jewish Values On-Line and Belief.net, Rabbi Goldie Milgram is a widely published author, beginning with the first book in her Jewish Lights trilogy, Reclaiming Judaism as a Spiritual Practice: Holy Days and Shabbat. She has been honored by the American Cancer Society as a "Most Distinguished Citizen" for innovating the first preventive medicine talk television, which was NBC40's "Health Watch," and by the Covenant Foundation for her Bar/Bat Mitzvah [R]evolution initiative which restores and meaning and spirituality to this rite of passage through new methods and materials that she developed while earning her doctorate, resulting in her second book, Make Your Own Bar/Bat Mitzvah: A Personal Approach to Creating a Meaningful Rite of Passage published by Jossey-Bass. Rabbi Milgram is presently spearheading the Mitzvah-Centered Life Initiative at Reclaiming Judaism with a wide range of traveling programs involving the over 60 contributing authors to Mitzvah Stories: Seeds for Inspiration and Learning, the newest release from Reclaiming Judaism Press, along with matching 52 card decks of Mitzvah Cards and free downloadable Discussion Guide. Her two-year certification program for Jewish educators is titled 3 Mmm: Maggid, Mitzvah and Mussar and emphasizes principles, methods and material that support the mental health and ethical living of youth through a Jewish lens.Rabbi Milgram holds a doctorate from New York Theological Seminary, rabbinical ordination from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (RRC) and the honor of rabbinic, hashpa'ah, maggid, and shlicha ordination from Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, as well as a Masters in Hebrew Letters (RRC) and a Masters in Social Work from Yeshiva University's Wurzweiler School. She also offers a limited number of private telephone sessions in the field of hashpa'ah, Jewish spiritual guidance, using methods developed by Dr. Gene Gendlin and she was among those first trained to facilitate Bibliodrama by Dr. Peter Pitzele.Rabbi Milgram has had an extensive career in academia and Jewish communal service, from her early days serving as a religious school, youth group, camp, Hillel and JCC program director, BJE and Federation executive, up through long-serving as a seminary dean. She still teaches pastoral counseling, leaderships skills and bioethics at the seminary level when time allows, and also serves as Judaism and Book Review Editor for the Philadelphia Jewish Voice. Reb Goldie's greatest joy is visiting communities world-wide to convene joyful and deep sessions of engaged Jewish learning through a wide array of experiential teaching approaches combined with spontaneous humor and joy.