Elyse Goldstein

ELYSE GOLDSTEIN is a Reform rabbi, scholar, and feminist author who founded Kolel: The Adult Centre for Liberal Jewish Learning in 1991 and served as its director for 20 years. Her books include New Jewish Feminism: Probing the Past, Forging the Future, The Women’s Haftarah Commentary and The Women’s Torah Commentary.

Goldstein received the Covenant Award for Outstanding Jewish Educators in 2005. Her book ReVisions: Seeing Torah through a Feminist Lens won the Canadian National Jewish Book Award in the field of Bible.

Goldstein is the founding Rabbi and Rabbi Emerita, as of June 2024, of City Shul, downtown Toronto’s Reform congregation. She was ordained by Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in New York in 1983.

Elyse lives in Toronto, Canada.

Elyse Goldstein’s books are published by Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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