About Jen Gubitz
With her humor and insight, Rabbi Jen Gubitz builds communities and content that elevate Jewish wisdom’s capacity to speak to our human condition.
Jen is the co-host of the OMfG Podcast: Jewish Wisdom for Unprecedented Times and her writing appears in the Los Angeles Times, Romper, Boston Globe, OnBeing, Jewish Daily Forward, and Lilith Magazine.
With over 15 years of experience in Jewish professional life, Jen is a graduate of Indiana University and was ordained in 2012 by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (NY) where she was a Tisch Rabbinical Fellow. She trained in chaplaincy at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and wrote her thesis on Jewish death education for children. Jen completed an intensive certificate in Family Systems Therapy through Therapy Training Boston, an MBA-level entrepreneurship program through Columbia Business School and Glean Network, and was a fellow with ATRA: Center for Rabbinic Innovation and M2 Pedagogies of Wellbeing.
Jen is the founder of Modern JewISH Couples, which supports couples on the pathway to marriage and beyond. She also serves as a Rabbi at Temple Shalom of Newton.
With her humor and insight, Rabbi Jen Gubitz builds communities and content that elevate Jewish wisdom’s capacity to speak to our human condition.
Jen is the co-host of the OMfG Podcast: Jewish Wisdom for Unprecedented Times and her writing appears in the Los Angeles Times, Romper, Boston Globe, OnBeing, Jewish Daily Forward, and Lilith Magazine.
With over 15 years of experience in Jewish professional life, Jen is a graduate of Indiana University and was ordained in 2012 by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (NY) where she was a Tisch Rabbinical Fellow. She trained in chaplaincy at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and wrote her thesis on Jewish death education for children. Jen completed an intensive certificate in Family Systems Therapy through Therapy Training Boston, an MBA-level entrepreneurship program through Columbia Business School and Glean Network, and was a fellow with ATRA: Center for Rabbinic Innovation and M2 Pedagogies of Wellbeing.
Jen is the founder of Modern JewISH Couples, which supports couples on the pathway to marriage and beyond. She also serves as a Rabbi at Temple Shalom of Newton.
OMfG Podcast
Jewish Wisdom for Unprecedented Times
co-hosted by Jen and Rabbi Jodie Gordon
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OMfG, what a wonderful four letter word. Those four letters can say so much in so little time, whether expressing joy or grief, excitement or disappointment, delight and sorrow, impatience or urgency - truly the breadth of human experience.
As rabbis, we know that when the stories of our lives meet the stories of Jewish tradition, transformation / growth / something awesome occurs. Apple Podcast, Spotify, Anchor |
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Published Writings
Book Chapters
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Conceiving Hope:
Navigating Infertility in the Jewish Community The Sacred Struggle: Jewish Responses to Trauma, CCAR Publishing, Forthcoming 2025 |
Grief and Grounds for Hope
Remember and Do Not Forget: Rabbinic Testimonies of January 6, 2021: A Horrific Day in American History |
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Dividends of Meaning: Jewish Rituals for the Financial Lifecycle
Creating a Jewish Money Ethic: The Sacred Exchange: CCAR Challenge and Change, 2019 |
Chayei Sarah:
M’nuchat HaNefesh The Mussar Torah Commentary: A Spiritual Path to Living a Meaningful and Ethical Life, CCAR, 2019 |
A Pedagogy of 'Life Meets Text' M2 Pedagogies of Wellbeing
Remaking Jewish Weddings, Judaism Unbound Podcast
Remaking Jewish Weddings, Judaism Unbound Podcast
Articles
- Welcoming Baby, Reform Judaism.org
- Our embryos aren't children, but I wish they were, Lilith Magazine
- With this grief, I thee wed: How to celebrate a wedding after a loved one dies, Los Angeles Times
- How to Make Yom Kippur Meaningful Even if You Don't Fast, JewishBoston.com
- Becoming BMitzvah, ReformJudaism.org
- A Mother's Day Garden of Grief, Romper
- Always a Rabbi, One Day a Bride, Boston Globe Magazine
- Our Rabbis, Our Heroes, Jewish Daily Forward
- Incremental Change By the Light of the Moon, JewishBoston.com
- Grief, Weddings; Open First, Lilith Blog
- Debbie Friedman Helped Me Find My Voice, Lilith Blog
- A Chanukah Heroine, JewishBoston.com
- Why Did(n’t) the Funeral Procession Cross the Road, Lilith Magazine and Blog
- When 2020 Vision is Blurred: Young Adult Peer Leadership Model for Uncertain Times, EJewishPhil
- Emergent Communities & Legacy Institutions Investing Together, EJewishPhilanthropy
- Interfaith Acceptance Has A PR Problem, Jewish Daily Forward
- To Whom Will You Write, The On Being Project
Poetry & Liturgy
- What if Shammai was Right? as shared by the Institute for Jewish Spirituality
- Amazon is Sold Out of Sackcloth, Lilith Magazine
- Healing for Our Nation, Ritualwell.com
- Vaccinate Us, A Prayer for Healing Hate, ReformJudaism.org
- Kaddish for Pittsburgh, JewishBoston.com
- A Prayer for Assaulted Bodies and Souls, JewishBoston.com
- Redemptive Remembrance, Ritualwell.com
- Selected Sermons and Writing, Substack
- How to Talk to Kids about Death, Tablet Magazine
- Creating a Radically Inclusive Jewish Community, JewishBoston.com
Offerings
Jen is available to support you through life cycle events including weddings, baby namings and funerals.
She teaches and consults on areas including:
young adult engagement, supporting interfaith families, congregational innovation,
storytelling, songleading & Mussar learning
She teaches and consults on areas including:
young adult engagement, supporting interfaith families, congregational innovation,
storytelling, songleading & Mussar learning
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