I am an ordained Interspiritual/Interfaith Minister, graduated from One Spirit Interfaith Seminary in New York City.  I am also a Spiritual Director (sometimes called Spiritual Guide or Spiritual Companion) trained at Oasis Ministries, Camp Hill, PA and a member of Spiritual Directors International.  My academic training includes a master degree from Rutgers University in NJ and a bachelor degree from Fordham University in NY.

Over the years, I have spearheaded countless church-based outreach projects; facilitated various types of prayer groups; developed and headed a ministry to support persons going through divorce. Presently, I am associated with Fellowship In Prayer, an Interfaith foundation based in Princeton, and am a member of the Princeton Clergy Association.  I am also currently involved in prison ministry.  Recently, I was interviewed by Town Topics, a local Princeton newspaper.

Outside of religious venues, I was active in community service for ten years through Girl Scouts, and was a Somerset County volunteer tutor for children at risk.

Aside from fulfilling the awesome roles of wife, mother and grandmother, I am an Associate with the Cenacle Sisters and a Reiki practitioner. I have a daily yoga practice, and strongly believe in tikkun olam, the Judaic term for sharing in the repair of the world.

My Catholic upbringing, combined with growing up in a Jewish neighborhood influenced my choices of where to study. Both Oasis and One Spirit have given me a strong interfaith and interspiritual backbone, enabling me to work with all persons regardless of faith tradition, or lack thereof.

My highest aspiration as an Interspiritual/Interfaith Minister is to become a bridge between people of different faiths, enabling them to respect and honor each other’s traditions in an effort to bring some peace into our very broken world.

REFLECTION

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesn’t make any sense.
Rumi