Jamie Korngold

Jamie Korngold is a Reform Jewish rabbi. In 2001, she founded the Adventure Rabbi program, a not-for-profit organization based in Boulder, Colorado which integrates spirituality and the outdoors.[1][2] For example, people in the Adventure Rabbi program

...climb mountains, go skiing, play the guitar and sing around a campfire.[3]

Rabbi Korngold is the spiritual leader of the Adventure Rabbi program,[4] and envisioned it because she

experienced her most vibrant Jewish experiences in the outdoors. From scaling mountains to running ultra-marathons, she has found that the spirituality of the wilderness awakens Judaism.[5]

She was ordained by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, from which she holds a Master in Hebrew Letters. She also graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in natural resources.[6] In 2008 her book God in the Wilderness was published; it is about finding spiritual meaning in outdoor experiences.[7] In 2011 her book The God Upgrade was published, which advocates modernizing the contemporary notion of God so that it becomes compatible with both science and Judaism.[8] In 2011 she also published 9 children’s’ books including a book about Sukkot, titled Sadie's Sukkah Breakfast.

  1. ^ Mike Comins (2010). Making Prayer Real: Leading Jewish Spiritual Voices on Why Prayer Is Difficult and What to Do about It. Jewish Lights Publishing. ISBN 978-1-58023-417-7.
  2. ^ "Jamie Korngold Author Bookshelf - Random House - Books - Audiobooks - Ebooks". Random House. Retrieved 2011-07-28.
  3. ^ "Wilderness Weddings, Backcountry Bar & Bat Mitzvahs, Rabbi a-la-carte". Adventure Rabbi. Retrieved 2011-07-28.
  4. ^ Dana Evan Kaplan (2009). Contemporary American Judaism: transformation and renewal. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-13728-7.
  5. ^ "Wilderness Weddings, Backcountry Bar & Bat Mitzvahs, Rabbi a-la-carte". Adventure Rabbi. Retrieved 2011-07-28.
  6. ^ "COEJL". COEJL. Archived from the original on 2011-09-30. Retrieved 2011-07-28.
  7. ^ Brown, Barbara (2007). God in the Wilderness: Rediscovering the Spirituality of the Great Outdoors with the Adventure Rabbi (9780385520492): Jamie S. Korngold: Books. ISBN 978-0385520492.
  8. ^ Rossel, Seymour (2011). The God Upgrade: Finding Your 21st-Century Spirituality in Judaism's 5,000-Year-Old Tradition (9781580234436): Jamie S. Korngold: Books. ISBN 978-1580234436.