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.