Melanie Gruenwald

Teaches at Kabbalah Experience

Melanie Gruenwald comes to the Kabbalah Experience with over 20 years in informal Jewish education.  Engaged with senior citizens, families, college students, and teens, Melanie has extensive professional experience with communal leadership and community-organizing.

She earned her B.S. in Psychology from Binghamton University (S.U.N.Y), and  Masters in Social Work and Certificate in Jewish Communal Service from the Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University. Melanie has pursued additional Judaic and spiritual studies at  the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, the Conservative Yeshiva, and most recently, Kabbalah Experience.

Melanie is married to Rabbi Salomon Gruenwald, Associate Rabbi at the Hebrew Educational Alliance, and is mom to three children, Koby (z”l), Hannah, and Micah.

Her passion for learning and understanding a broader worldview, has been further expanded at Kabbalah Experience, and she looks forward to serving both as a teacher and student in her classes.