Jamie Korngold

{{short description|American Reform Jewish rabbi}}

Jamie Korngold is a Reform Jewish rabbi. In 2001, she founded the Adventure Rabbi program, a not-for-profit organization based in Boulder, Colorado which integrates spirituality and the outdoors.{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-pk3r7sZj20C&pg=PA71 | title=Making Prayer Real: Leading Jewish Spiritual Voices on Why Prayer Is Difficult and What to Do about It | author= Mike Comins| publisher= Jewish Lights Publishing| year= 2010| isbn= 978-1-58023-417-7 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.randomhouse.com/author/73694/jamie-korngold |title=Jamie Korngold Author Bookshelf - Random House - Books - Audiobooks - Ebooks |publisher=Random House |date= |accessdate=2011-07-28}} For example, people in the Adventure Rabbi program

...climb mountains, go skiing, play the guitar and sing around a campfire.{{cite web|url=http://www.adventurerabbi.org/about.htm |title=Wilderness Weddings, Backcountry Bar & Bat Mitzvahs, Rabbi a-la-carte |publisher=Adventure Rabbi |date= |accessdate=2011-07-28}}

Rabbi Korngold is the spiritual leader of the Adventure Rabbi program,{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0NrIPT7KWTYC&pg=PT133 | title=Contemporary American Judaism: transformation and renewal |author= Dana Evan Kaplan| publisher =Columbia University Press| year= 2009| isbn= 978-0-231-13728-7 }} and envisioned it because she

experienced her most vibrant Jewish experiences in the outdoors. From scaling mountains to running ultra-marathons, she has found that the spirituality of the wilderness awakens Judaism.{{cite web|url=http://www.adventurerabbi.org/about.htm |title=Wilderness Weddings, Backcountry Bar & Bat Mitzvahs, Rabbi a-la-carte |publisher=Adventure Rabbi |date= |accessdate=2011-07-28}}

She was ordained by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, from which she holds a Master in Hebrew Letters. She also graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in natural resources.{{cite web|url=http://www.coejl.org/speakers/korngold_j.php |title=COEJL |publisher=COEJL |accessdate=2011-07-28 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930094458/http://www.coejl.org/speakers/korngold_j.php |archivedate=2011-09-30 }} In 2008 her book God in the Wilderness was published; it is about finding spiritual meaning in outdoor experiences.{{cite book|last=Brown |first=Barbara |title=God in the Wilderness: Rediscovering the Spirituality of the Great Outdoors with the Adventure Rabbi (9780385520492): Jamie S. Korngold: Books |year=2007 |isbn=978-0385520492 }} In 2011 her book The God Upgrade was published, which advocates modernizing the contemporary notion of God so that it becomes compatible with both science and Judaism.{{cite book|last=Rossel |first=Seymour |title=The God Upgrade: Finding Your 21st-Century Spirituality in Judaism's 5,000-Year-Old Tradition (9781580234436): Jamie S. Korngold: Books |year=2011 |isbn=978-1580234436 }} In 2011 she also published 9 children’s’ books including a book about Sukkot, titled Sadie's Sukkah Breakfast.