Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman is the Associate Rabbi of Temple Beth El of Northern Westchester.

Ordained by HUC-JIR in Cincinnati in 2007, Rabbi Mitelman received The Cora Kahn Prize from the Cincinnati faculty for the most outstanding sermon delivery and oratory. While at HUC-JIR, he was the student rabbi at B’nai Israel Synagogue in Grand Forks, North Dakota and Temple Oheb Shalom in Sandusky, Ohio. Over the summers, he interned at the Union for Reform Judaism in the Department of Jewish Family Concerns, co-editing a book on
congregational inclusion; gained pastoral experience at Westchester County Medical Center; and worked with teenagers at Kutz and Eisner Camps. Prior to entering the
rabbinate, he worked on curriculum development and teacher training for Facing History and Ourselves, and spent a year volunteering in Israel through Project Otzma.

In addition to his practical experience, Rabbi Mitelman is also an enthusiastic scholar. He was selected by CLAL, the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, to
be one of twenty “Rabbis Without Borders,” a national program that seeks to position rabbis as American religious leaders and spiritual innovators who contribute Jewish
wisdom to the American spiritual landscape. He was also chosen to be one of twelve rabbis in the initial group of the Balfour Brickner Fellowship, 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. Additionally, he represented HUC-JIR at an international interfaith study conference in Krakow, Poland entitled “Building Towards the Future: Jewish-Christian Relations in Cultural Context.”

A native of Westchester County, New York, Rabbi Mitelman grew up in Briarcliff Manor, belonged to Woodlands Community Temple in White Plains, and graduated from Hackley School in Tarrytown. A Religion and Jewish Studies major at Princeton University, he graduated in 2000 with multiple prizes for scholarship in Judaic and Biblical Studies. He is a voracious reader (especially books on science, psychology, history, and politics), and ever since he went to his first game at age seven, he has been an ardent Yankees fan.

You can contact Rabbi Mitelman at (914) 238-3928, or gmitelman@bethelnw.org.