Bio

Charlie Buckholtz attended Williams College, received an MFA in fiction writing from Syracuse University, and rabbinical ordination from the Bat Ayin Yeshiva.

Charlie held a year-long fellowship as a rabbinical apprentice to Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, served for three years as Rabbi of the historic Sixth Street Community Synagogue in NY's East Village, and started and led numerous community-building projects and creative cohorts of rabbis, artists, and others along the way. Charlie spent six years living in Jerusalem as Senior Editor at the Shalom Hartman Institute. Charlie travels often, but is based in Takoma Park, MD,  where he lives with his wife and son.

PBS Religion & Ethics Newsweekly:  "Charlie & Sedar"  (VIDEO)

A segment from a 2007 episode of the PBS show about me, my best childhood friend, Sedar Chapelle, and our divergent, convergent spiritual paths. At the time I was the Orthodox rabbi of a shul in Manhattan's East Village.