David S. Ariel is president of the Laura and Alvin Siegal College of Judaic Studies in Cleveland. He wrote the book Spiritual Judaism: Restoring Heart and Soul to Jewish Life (Hyperion, 1998).

Rabbi Heather Altman, a Conservative rabbi, is a spiritual director, teacher, yoga instructor and healer based in Chicago.

Rabbi Aryeh Azriel of Temple Israel in Omaha, Neb., a Reform synagogue, leads the Spiritual Working Group on Leadership for Synagogue 3000.

Heena Reiter is director of the Gesher Center for Jewish Spirituality, Meditation and Healing in Charlottesville, Va. The center works to promote “personal and spiritual growth based on teachings and practices from traditional and contemporary Judaism.”

Jacob J. Staub is director of the Jewish Spiritual Direction Program at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Wyncote, Pa. He has taught Jewish spiritualism across the country. Rabbi Staub can discuss queer Jewish theology.

Rabbi David Shneyer heads Am Kolel (“an inclusive people”), a Jewish renewal center in Beallsville, Md., and founded Yachad, the Jewish Housing Development Corporation. He is also active in the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, the Montgomery Countryside Alliance and also Rabbis for Human Rights.

Read an essay on how to be a spiritual Jew.

Art Green is professor emeritus of religion at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. He is an expert in Jewish mysticism and the Kabbalah.

Rabbi Daniel Judson leads Temple Beth David of the South Shore in Canton, Mass., which has a spirituality program that “explores prayer and ritual through a prism of meditation, movement, creative writing and other forms of personal expression that bring the wonder, joy and richness of Judaism into our lives.” He is co-editor of The […]