Charlie Buckholtz

CHARLIE BUCKHOLTZ is a rabbi, writer, and activist and the coauthor of several books, including In Heaven Everything is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of New Wave Theatre, Are You Not a Man of God? Devotion, Betrayal, and Social Criticism in Jewish Tradition, and The God Who Hates Lies: Confronting and Rethinking Jewish Tradition.

Buckholtz holds an MFA in fiction writing from Syracuse University and rabbinical ordination from the Bat Ayin Yeshiva. He held a year-long fellowship as rabbinical apprentice to Rabbi Yitz Greenberg and has served as senior editor at the Shalom Hartman Institute. His essays have appeared in The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, and Tablet.

When not writing, Buckholtz serves his community as a rabbi, a role he held for three years at the Sixth Street Community Synagogue in the East Village.

Charlie lives in Takoma Park, Maryland.

Charlie Buckholtz’s books are published by Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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