RABBI MARC GELLMAN

Rabbi Dr. Marc Gellman, PhD is the Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Beth Torah in Melville, New York and was the interim rabbi for the Aspen Jewish Congregation in Aspen, Colorado. 

Rabbi Gellman served as president of The New York Board of Rabbis during the attacks of 9/11.

Rabbi Gellman holds an earned doctorate in Philosophy from Northwestern University.  He is the CEO and founder of The Marc Gellman Institute, Inc.  a 501c3 charitable institution that produces a weekly podcast, The God Squad: a podcast you can believe in.  He wrote a column for Newsweek.com entitled The Spiritual State. 

In 1987, with his friend Monsignor Thomas Hartman, Rabbi Gellman formed the media team called, The God Squad.  They reported religious news for ABC’s Good Morning America and were regulars on the Imus in the Morning program.  They also hosted their own syndicated cable program, The God Squad.  They coauthored a syndicated weekly religious advice column for Tribune Media Content, The God Squad, which Rabbi Gellman continues to write following Father Hartman’s death in 2016.  The readers of Newsday voted Rabbi Gellman and Father Hartman the most important leaders and activists of the last century on Long Island.  Rabbi Gellman was also chosen as one of the fifty best rabbis in America by Newsweek. 

Their HBO special, How Do You Spell God? received the George Foster Peabody Award in 1996. 

As a contributing editor of Moment Magazine Rabbi Gellman was a pioneer in opening the new field of modern midrash for children and for adults.  He has written ten books for children and adults including, “Does God Have a Big Toe?: Stories about stories in the Bible” which was selected by the New York Times as one of the ten best illustrated children’s books of the year.  Professor Isa Aron called it, “The greatest Jewish children’s book ever written.”