Rabbi Molly Karp is a deep listener, a skilled counselor and a pluralistic rabbi, passionate about teaching Torah, Hebrew and many other facets of Judaism. In her view, a rabbi is someone who provides warm and gentle support and who listens with compassion. Deep Listening allows her to listen to another person and be fully present without trying to control or judge.
Rabbi Karp is a person you can talk to; when you speak to Rabbi Karp and she asks, “How are you?” she really wants to know.
Rabbi Karp is devoted to teaching the texts and rituals of traditional Judaism, and to finding contemporary spiritual meaning and joy in them. In her approach, she instantly creates an atmosphere of acceptance. Rabbi Karp is warm, scholarly, and committed to an egalitarian practice of Judaism and to social justice. She is a student and practitioner of Jewish Renewal, a view of Judaism that reconnects modern Jews to the spiritual practice and traditions of Judaism.
Rabbi Karp was ordained as a rabbi at the Academy for Jewish Religion in Riverdale, New York. She spent ten years in doctoral studies in Hebrew Bible at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Rabbi Karp holds a Master’s degree in Jewish Education
from HUC-JIR in New York and a BA in Judaic Studies from SUNY Binghamton. Her training in Mindfulness Practice and Jewish Spirituality at the Institute of Jewish Spirituality is at the heart of all of her work.