Carol Ochs

Dr. Ochs is Director of the Graduate School and Adjunct Full Professor of Jewish Religious Thought at HUC-JIR, New York. Her research, writing, and teaching fall into three categories: (1) Jewish spirituality, (2) comparative religion, and (3) Jewish feminism. In addition to teaching spiritual guidance, she serves as spiritual guide to Rabbinic, cantorial, and Doctor of Ministry students. Prior to joining the faculty of HUC-JIR, she taught philosophy at Simmons College in Boston, where she is professor emerita.

Education
  • Ph.D., Brandeis University (1968)
Lecture Titles
  • 'Finding God in Our Own Stories'
  • 'The Emerging Work of Jewish Spiritual Guidance'
  • 'Psychoanalysis and Jewish Theology'
  • 'Enduring the Spiritual Desert'
  • 'Stages on the Spiritual Journey'
Publications
  • Reaching Godward: Voices From Jewish Spiritual Guidance, URJ Press, 2003. (order online from amazon.com)
  • Our Lives as Torah: Finding God in Our Own Stories, Wiley/Jossey-Bass, 2001 (order online from amazon.com)
  • The Uses of the Heart, by Fontaine Maury Belford, coedited with Judith C. Campbell, Campbell and Lockwood Press, 1998.
  • Jewish Spiritual Guidance: Finding Our Way to God, with Kerry M. Olitzky, Wiley/Jossey-Bass, 1997 (order online from amazon.com)
  • Women and Spirituality, 2nd ed., rev. & enl., Rowman & Littlefield, 1997 (order online from amazon.com)
  • Paths of Faithfulness, coedited with Kerry M. Olitzky and Joshua Saltzman, Ktav, 1997.
  • Song of the Self: Biblical Spirituality and Human Holiness, Trinity Press International, 1994.
  • The Noah Paradox: Time as Burden, Time as Blessing, Notre Dame University Press, 1991 (order online from amazon.com)
  • An Ascent to Joy: Transforming Deadness of Spirit, Notre Dame University Press, 1986.
  • Behind the Sex of God: Toward a New Consciousness Transcending Matriarchy and Patriarchy, Beacon Press, 1977
Rabbinical Studies
Cantorial Studies
Jewish Educational Studies
Jewish Communal
Service Studies
Grad/Undergrad Studies
Continuing Education
& Youth Programs