Rabbi Joshua Boettiger
Ner Tamid (personal mission statement):
There is nowhere else to be.
Rabbi Boettiger is Jewish Chaplain and Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. He is the author of the forthcoming To Imagine Other Solitudes: The Work of Mussar (Monkfish, 2027) and as part of his role at CCM, has served as a Scholar-in-Residence, where he teaches mussar in different national locations. He co-leads CCM’s Clergy Cohort (with Rabbi Stone and Sonia Voynow), teaches a free weekly meditation class, and leads local va’ads in New York as well as teaching mussar more broadly over Zoom. Rabbi Boettiger is a graduate of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, and has an MFA in Poetry from Pacific University.