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Rabbi Rachel Goldenberg (she/her)
Rabbi/Founder
Reform
Malkhut
Queens, New York 11372
United States

About

Rabbi Rachel Goldenberg is the founder of Malkhut, a nine-year old progressive Jewish spiritual community in Western Queens, NY. She finds spiritual nourishment in creating creative and open spaces to connect to the Divine, to each other, and to the world through singing, mindfulness practice, study, and social justice work. Ordained by Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion in 2003, Rabbi Goldenberg served in the mainstream pulpit world for her first 13 years in the rabbinate, first serving as Assistant/Associate Rabbi of Temple Emanu-El (Dallas, TX) and then leading Congregation Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek (Chester,CT). She also brings training as a mindfulness teacher through the Institute of Jewish Spirituality, and her social justice leadership and activism to her spiritual start-up. Rabbi Goldenberg lives in Queens, NY with her husband Jim Talbott. They have two young adult children, Amina and Ziv.

Listing Details

Clergy answered "Yes" to the following

  • Trained on LGBTQ+ identities within past five years
  • Experience officiating conversions for transgender and nonbinary individuals with a sensitivity to the wide range of relationships to gender and embodiment that transgender and nonbinary individuals may have
  • Experience officiating gender-expansive b-mitzvah
  • Familiar with gender-expansive Hebrew liturgical and linguistic options
  • Approaches the presence of LGBTQ+ people as the norm rather than an exception in Jewish communal life
  • Person-centered and LGBTQ+ positive approach to Jewish law and tradition
  • Comfortable consistently using they/them pronouns and neopronouns
  • Experience in pastoral/spiritual care of LGBTQ+ individuals
  • Experience officiating LGBTQ+ weddings

Clergy answered "No" to the following

  • Experience in end-of-life care for LGBTQ+ individuals
  • Experience celebrating LGBTQ+ specific life-cycle rituals such as coming out and renaming
  • Speaks or writes regularly on LGBTQ+ themes