Geoff Mitelman

Background

About Geoff Mitelman

Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman is a sought-out teacher, writer, presenter, and scholar-in-residence about the interaction of religion and science. His work has appeared on the homepages of The Huffington Post, Science and Religion Today, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, My Jewish Learning and WordPress.com. He is on the Advisory Board of the 92nd St. Y's "7 Days of Genius" Festival, and was interviewed by BBC Radio’s World Have Your Say about the religious implications of the Higgs Boson. He is the Founding Director of Sinai and Synapses, an organization that bridges the scientific and religious worlds, and is being incubated at Clal – The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. Ordained by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, he received the Cora Kahn Prize from the Cincinnati faculty for the most outstanding sermon delivery and oratory. An alumnus of Princeton University, he received multiple prizes for outstanding scholarship in Biblical and Judaic studies. He was selected to be a member of the first cohort of Clal’s prestigious Rabbis Without Borders fellowship, a national program that seeks to position rabbis as American religious leaders and spiritual innovators who contribute Jewish wisdom to the American spiritual landscape. Additionally, he was chosen to be in the first group of the Balfour Brickner Rabbinic Fellowship, a a joint program with Clal and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism that aims to integrate Jewish textual tradition with modern social and political issues. For seven years, he served as Assistant and then Associate Rabbi of Temple Beth El of Northern Westchester. He lives in Westchester with his wife Heather Stoltz, a fiber artist, and their daughter and son.