Rabbi Estelle Gottman Mills
Rabbi Estelle Gottman Mills is the rabbi serving Congregation Beth Jacob in Plymouth, Massachusetts. She grew up in Greensboro, N.C. She earned a B.A. with honors in Jewish History from University of Michigan and was ordained by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati in 1992. She and her husband, Rabbi Steven Mills (Zichrono Livracha) are the proud parents of three children, Rafi, a 2015 Lehigh University engineering graduate working in Schenectady NY, Sivan, a 2017 University of Pennsylvania graduate working in Philadelphia and Noa, a 2021 Skidmore College graduate studying for her doctorate in occupational therapy at Tufts University.
For most of her career, Rabbi Mills served as the rabbi of Congregation Kol Chadash in the Cleveland suburb of Solon and as the rabbi of Congregation Kol Am in the St. Louis suburb of Ballwin. For her innovative and cutting-edge programming, Rabbi Mills has been awarded the prestigious Legacy Heritage Innovator Grant, a Union for Reform Judaism Incubator Grant, and a URJ Belin recipient.
A gifted educator, Rabbi Mills passionately believes that strong, high quality Jewish educational opportunities and programming for all ages from seniors to the youngest learners are essential to strengthening and growing today’s congregations. For her, the response to declining involvement in congregational life is not watering down content; rather the answer is to make Jewish experiences valuable, meaningful and accessible by embracing innovation.
Ordination:
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
Contact:
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 440-263-5571
website: www.cbjplymouth.org
For most of her career, Rabbi Mills served as the rabbi of Congregation Kol Chadash in the Cleveland suburb of Solon and as the rabbi of Congregation Kol Am in the St. Louis suburb of Ballwin. For her innovative and cutting-edge programming, Rabbi Mills has been awarded the prestigious Legacy Heritage Innovator Grant, a Union for Reform Judaism Incubator Grant, and a URJ Belin recipient.
A gifted educator, Rabbi Mills passionately believes that strong, high quality Jewish educational opportunities and programming for all ages from seniors to the youngest learners are essential to strengthening and growing today’s congregations. For her, the response to declining involvement in congregational life is not watering down content; rather the answer is to make Jewish experiences valuable, meaningful and accessible by embracing innovation.
Ordination:
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
Contact:
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 440-263-5571
website: www.cbjplymouth.org