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‘’’Rabbi Manuel Gold’’’ (born November 14, 1933) is an American Jewish Bible scholar, educational consultant, and author. His innovative research into the historical antecedents of modern ritual and practice has influenced three generations of rabbis, professors, educators, camp counselors, and students both young and old.[1] Personal LifeGold was born on November 14, 1933 in New York City to Cantor Jacob (b. Mezeritch, Ukraine, 1875) and Sylvia (Avroch) Gold (b. 1904, in Matziev, Poland). His mother entered the U.S. in 1922, his father in 1923. They married in 1930 and Manuel was their first child together, though the Cantor left a first wife and five children in the Ukraine before coming to the States. In 1934, unable to find work in New York, the family moved to Chelsea, MA, where Jacob served as Cantor of the Walnut Street Shul (now , Congregation Agudath Shalom) one of the largest synagogues in the area and a national landmark since 1993. A sister, Barbara Gold, was born in Chelsea in 1935. Manuel Gold was still called by his birth-name, Menachem Mendel, but was given his more “Americanized” name by a public school principal when he entered the first grade. As the Jewish community in Chelsea dwindled and the shul could no longer afford him, the Cantor moved the family to Yonkers, NY. In addition to his public school, young Manuel Gold was tutored by his learned father who encouraged his inquisitiveness and tempered his scholarship with humor. When the family moved again, this time to Brooklyn, NY, Gold attended the Talmudical Academy of Yeshiva University (now called Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy); graduated in 1951, and went straight to Yeshiva College of Yeshiva University, receiving his B.A. in Political Science in 1955. He spent one summer at Mir Yeshiva (Brooklyn), a well-known Lithuanian school which had relocated to the U.S. following World War II. Later, at the Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin, Gold’s incessant questioning shaped his move away from political science to rabbinics. From 1956 to 1962, Gold spent summers working in Conservative Ramah camps. From 1956-1959, he was a Counselor and Advisor to the Senior High School study program at Camp Ramah in Wisconsin. From 1960-1962, he was Advisor to the Counselor Training program and Director of Senior High School division at Camp Ramah in the Poconos. He received his Master’s degree in Hebrew Letters and his Rabbinic ordination in 1960 from The Jewish Theological Seminary where he studied Bible, biblical interpretation, and Talmud with H.L. Ginsberg, Shalom Spiegel, Saul Lieberman, Mordecai M. Kaplan, and Abraham Joshua Heschel. He commenced his doctoral studies with Ephraim Avigdor Speiser at University of Pennsylvania studying Bible and ancient Near Eastern languages and culture. He later continued doctoral studies in Bible and Ancient Near East with Cyrus H. Gordon at New York University. Gold married Abigail Imber in 1964. Their daughter is Reform Rabbi Nadia Gold (married to Igor Gonta). Grandchildren include Maya and Zachary Gonta. Rabbi Nadia Gold currently serves as the Family Education Director of the West End Synagogue in Manhattan. ProfessionalFollowing his ordination in 1960, Gold was appointed Assistant and then Co-Rabbi of Beth Sholom Congregation (Elkins Park, Pennsylvania). He spent two years as Rabbi of Temple Beth El in Stamford, CT., and in 1966 became Director of Education at the Jewish Community Center (now Congregation Kol Ami) of White Plains, NY. While there, he founded the Association for Reform Principals of Westchester and Connecticut and an evening training program for Jewish teachers which gave rise to an outreach program in Westchester sponsored by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) of New York. In 1971, Gold took a position at the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (now Union for Reform Judaism) as National Director of Teacher and Principal Education, in the Department of Education. In addition, he served as Academic Coordinator of the Schools of Education and Sacred Music at HUC-JIR, NY, and Lecturer in Education in the HUC-JIR Rabbinical School. From 1971-1976, Gold served as Director of Education at Temple Beth El of Northern Westchester of Chappaqua, N.Y., Director of Education of Rodef Shalom Day School in New York City. In 1976, he took a full-time position continuing and extending his work as Consultant to Reform Congregational Schools for The Board of Jewish Education of New York (BJENY). During his quarter century at the BJENY, he founded the Long Island Reform Principals Association and the Reform and Conservative Principals Association of New York City. (From 1980-1982, he also served as interim rabbi for Scarsdale Synagogue, NY.) At the time of his retirement from the BJENY in 2000, he held the position as Director of the Teacher Center. Immediately following retirement, he gained an important place on the circuit of lecturers and workshop leaders throughout the New York Metropolitan region and in major Jewish centers around North America. Gold was coaxed out of retirement to serve four years as Director of Education at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, NY. Additionally, he served as interim rabbi at Temple Israel of Manhattan from 2006-2007. Papers & PublicationsGold has presented many scholarly papers on Bible and ancient languages before the Association for Jewish Studies and is the author of important articles such as “Hanukkah in a New Light” http://www.academia.edu/19513771/Hanukkah_in_a_New_Light, “Pyramids, Plagues and the Promised Land,” “Praying for Rain,” “God Without Fear,” “Teaching the Bible through Archaeology,” “Magic, Mezuzahs, Spooks and Spice Boxes,” and “Teaching the Teacher.” References1. ^The Forward, July 7, 2017, https://forward.com/author/manuel-gold/ |
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