OUR TEAM
RABBI JEN GUBITZ
Founder and Executive Director
Rabbi Jen Gubitz lives in Boston and pursues a rabbinate committed to elevating Jewish wisdom's capacity to speak to our human condition. Through young adult engagement, Jewish learning and pastoral care, Jen’s welcoming vibe weaves ritual and lifecycle experiences full of music, poetry, honesty and humor. An Indiana Hoosier sports fan, Jen is a product of the Reform Jewish movement's summer camping system and a graduate of Indiana University's Borns Jewish Studies program. She was ordained in 2012 by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (NY) where she was a Tisch Rabbinical Fellow and wrote her thesis on Jewish death education for children. Jen has training in community organizing and recently completed GLEAN, an MBA-level entrepreneurship certificate program taught through partnership with Columbia Business School. She is a certified Prepare/Enrich
instructor and recently completed an intensive certificate program in Family Systems Therapy with Therapy Training Boston. Jen is the co-host of the OMfG Podcast: Jewish Wisdom for Unprecedented Times and her writing has appeared in the Boston Globe, Romper, Jewish Daily Forward, EJewishPhilanthropy, OnBeing, the Mussar Torah Commentary, the Sacred Exchange: Creating a Jewish Money Ethic, and Lilith Magazine. She previously served as Director of the Riverway Project at Temple Israel of Boston, Rabbi and Director of Congregational Learning at Temple Shir Tikva of Wayland, Massachusetts, trained in chaplaincy at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and spent most of her summers at camp. She currently serves on the clergy team at Temple Shalom of Newton. Visit her website to learn more.
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as a fiscally sponsored project of Beloved Garden (D.B.A Beloved Builders). Beloved Garden is a 501c3 tax exempt organization that supports and nourishes Jewish spiritual leaders who are creating new spaces of sacred belonging. Beloved Garden supports Modern JewISH Couples and Rabbi Gubitz through leadership coaching, consulting and fiscal sponsorship. Your contributions to Modern JewISH Couples via the Beloved Garden platform is tax deductable. Learn more about the great work of Beloved Garden here: https://belovedgarden.org/
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