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In the newest episode of the Jewish Sacred Aging Podcast, Rabbi Address speaks with Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman, the Founding Director of Sinai and Synapses, which "seeks to bridge\\xa0the religious and scientific worlds, offering people a worldview that is scientifically grounded and spiritually uplifting."

About the Guest

Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman is the Founding Director of Sinai and Synapses, an organization that bridges the scientific and religious worlds, and\\xa0is being incubated at\\xa0Clal\\xa0\\u2013 The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership.

His work has been supported by the John Templeton Foundation,\\xa0Emanuel J. Friedman Philanthropies, and the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, and his writings about the intersection of religion and science have appeared on the homepages of several sites, including The Huffington Post, Nautilus,\\xa0Science and Religion Today, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, and\\xa0My Jewish Learning. He has been an adjunct professor at both the Hebrew Union College \\u2013 Jewish Institute of Religion and the Academy for Jewish Religion, and is a sought-out teacher, presenter, and scholar-in-residence throughout the country.

He was ordained by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, where he received the Cora Kahn Prize from the Cincinnati faculty for the most outstanding sermon delivery and oratory. An alumnus of Princeton University, he received multiple prizes for outstanding scholarship in Biblical and Judaic studies.

He was selected to be a member of the first cohort of Clal\\u2019s prestigious Rabbis Without Borders fellowship, a national program that seeks to position rabbis as American religious leaders and spiritual innovators who contribute Jewish wisdom to the American spiritual landscape. Additionally, he was chosen to be in the first group of the Balfour Brickner Rabbinic Fellowship, a a joint program with Clal and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism that aims to integrate Jewish textual tradition with modern social and political issues. He is on the advisory board of several organizations, including the 92nd St. Y\\u2019s \\u201c7 Days of Genius\\u201d Festival, as well as the URJ\\u2019s 6-Points Sci-Tech Academy.

For seven years, he served as\\xa0Assistant and then\\xa0Associate Rabbi of Temple Beth El of Northern Westchester, and appeared on Jeopardy!\\xa0in March 2016. He lives in Westchester County with his wife Heather Stoltz, a fiber artist, with\\xa0their daughter and son.