Goldy sumal biography of michael

Rabbi Michael Gold retired from the pulpit of Temple Beth Torah, Tamarac Jewish Center in Tamarac, Florida in 2022, after serving there 32 years. Previously, he served as rabbi of Beth El Congregation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Congregation Sons of Israel in Upper Nyack, New York.

Currently he has a part time position as the rabbi of Temple Beth Shalom in Century Village, Boca Raton, FL.

A native of Los Angeles, Rabbi Gold received his B.A. in mathematics from the University of California in San Diego.

The Jewish Theological Seminary ordained him in 1979. He received his PhD in the Public Intellectuals Program at Florida Atlantic University in 2016, with a dissertation on process philosophy and Jewish mysticism. He is an adjunct professor of philosophy and religion at Broward and Miami-Dade Colleges in Florida and Charter Oak College in Connecticut.

Rabbi Gold’s newest book Three Creation Stories; A Rabbi Encounters the Universe was published by Wipf &