Rabbi Marc Gellman, Host of The God Squad Podcast

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Meet Rabbi Gellman

Rabbi Dr. Marc Gellman is the Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Beth Torah in Melville, New York, and the rabbi of the Aspen Jewish Congregation.  He is the CEO and founder of The Marc Gellman Institute, Inc.  and holds an earned doctorate in Philosophy from Northwestern University. 

 With his friend Monsignor Thomas Hartman in 1987, Rabbi Gellman formed the media team called, The God Squad in 1987.  They reported religious news weekly on ABC’s Good Morning America.  They were also regulars on the Imus in the Morning program.  They were the co-hosts of their own syndicated cable television program, The God Squad and they wrote a weekly nationally syndicated newspaper column syndicated by Tribune Media Content.  Rabbi Gellman has continued to write the column following Father Tom’s death in 2016.  The readers of Newsday voted Rabbi Gellman and Father Hartman the most important leaders and activists of the last century on Long Island.  Rabbi Gellman was also chosen as one of the fifty best rabbis in America by Newsweek and for almost a decade he wrote a column for Newsweek.com entitled The Spiritual State. 

 Their HBO special, How Do You Spell God?  based upon their book about God for children of all faiths received the Peabody Award in 1996.  Rabbi Gellman has written ten books for children and adults including, “Does God Have a Big Toe?: Stories about stories in the Bible.” Which was selected by the New York Times as one of the ten best illustrated children’s books of 1991.  Professor Isa Aron called Big Toe, “The greatest Jewish children’s book ever written.”  He has also co-authored with Monsignor Thomas Hartman several books including, Religion for Dummies.  Their book Where Does God Live, won the Christopher Award.

 Rabbi Gellman served as contributing editor of Moment Magazine.  He was an adjunct faculty member at Antioch College, Northwestern University, and Hebrew Union College, and has delivered invited academic lectures at Princeton, Amherst College, Duke University, Jewish Theological Seminary, and Lehigh University.  Rabbi Gellman was an invited participant at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in 2007.  He was the Chairman of The Medical Ethics Committee of UJA-Federation where he edited their Compendium of Medical Ethics and he served as Chairman of the Protection of Human Subjects Committee of Evanston Hospital. 

 Rabbi Gellman served as president of The New York Board of Rabbis during the 9/11 attack on New York and delivered one of the keynote speeches at the Memorial Service in Yankee Stadium on September 23, 2001. 

 Rabbi Gellman is also a member of the Golf Writers of America and is on the ranking panel of Golf Digest Magazine.  He is the recipient of the Winnie Palmer Award from the Metropolitan Golf Writers of New York.  He and his wife Betty have raised guide dogs for the blind.

 This God Squad Podcast is about the things we all share and the things we all need.  It furthers the mission of the God Squad that we know enough about how we are different and not enough about how we are all the same.  It is not a political podcast because it is about bridging the gaps in our culture not deepening them.  It is a spiritual podcast but it is not sectarian.  It tries to lift up the teachings about human flourishing from all the great wisdom traditions of the world.