Rabbi Emily Goldberg Winer is the Manager of Boston for Shalom Hartman Institute of North America and the Director of Spiritual Engagement at Congregation Beth Sholom in Providence, RI. She received rabbinical ordination from Yeshivat Maharat.

Emily seeks to build a community of radical belonging, spiritual growth, and boundless chesed in Providence, RI. She is working to support the existing infrastructure within her community and strengthen its potential to transform and elevate local Jewish life.

Her previous positions include being a rabbinic intern at the Stanton Street Shul, Congregation Beth Sholom/Talmud Torah, Columbia/Barnard Hillel, chaplain at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, community educator at Brandeis, and coordinator at the Hebrew Home of Riverdale. She completed a unit of Clinical Pastoral Education at New York Presbyterian Hospital, the Jewish Innovation Fellowship at the 92nd Street Y, the Join for Justice Fellowship, and the rabbinic student fellowship at SHI-NA.

A Wexner Graduate Fellow and Master’s student at Yeshiva University, Emily has engaged in programs rooted in religious diversity, first among fellow Jews at the Bronfman Youth Fellowship and Drisha, and later across faiths at the Institute for Jewish-Christian Understanding, Tanenbaum, and Auburn. Emily lives in Providence, Rhode Island with her husband Jonah and their extroverted Golden Retriever named Barley.

City: Providence, RI
Pronouns: she/her