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. She is a member of the Society of Modern Psychoanalysts and the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis.
Recent
- New “Recognizing, Understanding and Addressing Triangulation in Congregations and Organizations.” CCAR Convention, Burlingame, California, March 16, 2026.
- New “The Feeling Being: Was the World Created for My Sake?” In Striving to be Human: Jewish Perspectives on Twenty-First-Century Challenges, edited by Rabbi Leah Cohen Tenenbaum and Rabbi Douglas Kohn. Reform Judaism Publishing, New York, 2025.
- New Keynote Speaker, PARR 78th Annual Convention: The Inner Life of the Rabbi, January 5–8, 2025. Topics: “Who am I?” “Whose am I?” “How am I?”
- New “Navigating Triangulation: Understanding and Addressing Its Role in Rabbinic Life.” CCAR Webinar, April 22, 2025. Triangulation is the bugaboo of rabbinic life. Most of us have been taught to avoid it at all costs, yet it is an ineradicable part of human behavior. As with other seemingly simple concepts, triangulation is more complicated than it first appears. How can we understand it? And, more importantly, what do we do about it? (Video available to CCAR members and on request.)
- New “Understanding the Role and Challenges of Members on the Ethics Committee.” Jan. 9, 2024. Joint cross-movement meeting of the respective Ethics Committees of the Rabbinical Assembly, the CCAR, and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association.
- New “Navigating Diverse Views on Israel in Our Rabbinic Settings: An Interactive Workshop.” CCAR Annual Convention, March 13, 2024.
- New “Constructing A Frame for Wellness.” CCAR Webinar, First 100 Days: For Congregational Rabbis, May 2024.
- New “Boundaries and Ethics.” CCAR Interim Training Webinar, Dec. 3, 2024.
- 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.
- “Ambiguous Loss during a Pandemic,” a CCAR webinar in conversation with Dr. Pauline Boss (Nov 2020).
- “The Good Enough Rabbi (Redux)” at the CCAR’s Ravblog (April 2020).
- 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).