Rosalind A. Gold

Rabbi Rosalind A. Gold was ordained in 1978 from the New York Campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR), where her major area of interest was Jewish liturgy. She received her Master of Arts degree in Hebrew Letters from HUC-JIR in 1975, and her Bachelor’s Degree from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1972. In May of 2001 she earned her Doctor of Ministry degree from Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC, and was awarded the doctor of Divinity degree from HUC-JIR in 2003. Upon her retirement in 2004, Rabbi Gold became the Rabbi Emerita of the Northern Virginia Hebrew Congregation, a congregation she had served for 23 years. Prior to this position, she was the Assistant Rabbi of Temple B’rith Kodesh in Rochester, NY. Rabbi Gold is active in her rabbinic organization, the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR). She served for four years as the Chair of the CCAR Committee on Ethics and Appeals. She was the first woman rabbi to serve on the Placement Commission. She has also served in the CCAR’s B’rit Milah Board, the Committee on Rabbinic Salaries, and as Chair of the Task Force on Women in the Rabbinate. In 2006, Rabbi Gold was appointed to the Fairfax County Commission on Organ and Tissue Donation. She has also worked with JACS, a support group for recovering Jewish addicts and alcoholics and their families.She is a member of the Clinical Faculty of HUC-JIR, where she works as a mentor to rabbinic students. She recently was named the coordinator of the Brickner Fellows Program of Reform Judaism’s Religious Action Center, where she is working with colleagues from different denominations on effective social action programming. Rabbi Gold, who comes from California, was born in 1949. She is married and the stepmother of two grown children. She enjoys traveling and reading. Since her retirement, she happily sings alto in Zemer Chai, the Washington area’s Jewish Community Chorus.