Rabbi Ellen Lewis
has more than thirty-five years of experience as a rabbi and a therapist. She has been trained to help people identify and resolve whatever issues might be preventing them from fully enjoying their personal and professional lives. She works with individuals, couples, and families, including all sorts of people from all walks of life.
Rabbi Lewis is a certified psychoanalyst in private practice in Bernardsville, NJ, and New York City. She is a member of the Society of Modern Psychoanalysts and the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis.
NEW Getting What You Wish For: Jewish Professionals and the Emotional Meaning of Money, Keynote: Wexner Graduate Fellowship Winter Institute. Available in CCAR Quarterly, Winter 2023.
NEW “Ambiguous Loss during a Pandemic,” a CCAR webinar in conversation with Dr. Pauline Boss (Nov 2020).
NEW “The Good Enough Rabbi (Redux)” at the CCAR’s Ravblog (April 2020).
RECENT Rabbi Lewis contributed a chapter to The Sacred Calling: Four Decades of Women in the Rabbinate, a collection that examines the impacts that women in the rabbinate have had on all aspects of Jewish life. A press release for the book explains more.
ON SEXUAL ABUSE “Preventing Clergy Sexual Abuse,” a chapter written for Keeping Faith in Rabbis: A Community Conversation on Rabbinical Education, eds. Rabbi Hayim Herring, Ph.D., and Ellie Roscher (Avenida Books).
ON MONEY