Meet Rabbi Natan Margalit

Rabbi Natan Margalit was raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, studied Anthropology at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, made aliya, and studied many years in Israeli yeshivot. He received rabbinic ordination at the Jerusalem Seminary in 1990 and earned a PhD from U.C. Berkeley in 2001 in Talmud. He has held teaching positions at Bard College, the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College in Boston. Presently he serves as Director of Oraita, a program of continuing education for rabbis of Hebrew College. Rabbi Natan has written and taught for many years on Judaism and the environment, innovative approaches to Jewish texts, Jewish spirituality, gender and Judaism. He lives in Newton, MA with his wife Ilana and sons, Nadav and Eiden.