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Rabbi Linda is an award winning wedding officiant based in White Plains, NY, also available for destination weddings and for officiating in Los Angeles in February and March. She serves all couples, particularly interfaith and Jewish of any (or no) affiliation, and she works with them to create the ceremony most meaningful for them. Rabbi Linda is known to be responsive, well organized, creative and compassionate. She is also an LGBTQ+ ally and actively honors diverse cultures.

Services Offered

Through her organized and caring services, Rabbi Linda can provide counseling, customized vows and a ceremony rehearsal. She is certified as a Prepare/Enrich couples facilitator. Couples may select from:

  • Interfaith ceremony
  • Single religion
  • Vow renewal

Areas Covered

Rabbi Linda is located in Westchester County, NY. She is available in New Rochelle, Tarrytown, White Plains and the surrounding areas. She is also licensed to officiate weddings in New York City and has worked around the USA and abroad.

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Frequently asked questions

Does starting price include the ceremony rehearsal?

No

What types of weddings and events do you provide services for?

Non-religious
Interfaith
Ceremony Rehearsal
Vow Renewal
Civil Union

What services do you provide?

Premarital Counseling

What religious affiliations do you serve?

Agnostic
Anglican
Baha'i Faith
Baptist
Buddhist
Catholic
Earth-Based
Episcopalian
Evangelical
Hindu
Islam
Jainism
Jewish
Lutheran
Methodist
Mormon
No Denomination
Orthodox Christian
Pagan
Presbyterian
Quaker
Shinto
Sikhism
Taoist
Unitarian

On average, how long are wedding ceremonies you officiate?

Less than 30 mins.

What languages do you speak?

English

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Rabbi Linda receives glowing reviews from couples who express gratitude for her personalized, meaningful, and inclusive ceremonies. From interfaith couples blending traditions to multi-cultural families, Rabbi Linda is praised for her caring, professional, and accommodating approach. She takes the time to understand each couple's unique story, blending tradition with modern elements, and creating ceremonies that resonate with guests and remain memorable. Reviewers highly recommend Rabbi Linda for anyone seeking a warm, dedicated, and expert officiant for their wedding or life events.

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Rabbi Linda receives glowing reviews from couples who express gratitude for her personalized, meaningful, and inclusive ceremonies. From interfaith couples blending traditions to multi-cultural families, Rabbi Linda is praised for her caring, professional, and accommodating approach. She takes the time to understand each couple's unique story, blending tradition with modern elements, and creating ceremonies that resonate with guests and remain memorable. Reviewers highly recommend Rabbi Linda for anyone seeking a warm, dedicated, and expert officiant for their wedding or life events.

Hallie
Hallie Sent on 06/19/2022
5 out of 5 rating

Best Ceremony Ever!!!

Rabbi Linda is the absolute best. Stop your search for an officiant now and book Rabbi Linda. We postponed our wedding 1 year with covid, and she was by our side every step of the way. Rabbi Linda is extremely organized, responsive, kind-hearted, and wise. We had a mixed ceremony blending Jewish and Catholic faiths. Rabbi Linda had done this many times before and has the perfect ceremony outline for it and will give you a recommendation for an amazing Catholic deacon as well. It was seamless. We got so many compliments on how the two cultures blended so beautifully. Further, she made the ceremony personable by adding in our story about how we met and how our personalities and values blend- and she did it with such good storytelling and humor it was a nice moment for the audience to have a break from crying and chance to laugh. And it is not just at the ceremony but every step of the way leading up the ceremony. Rabbi Linda made our ketubah process seamless, recommending an amazing ketubah company and performing a beautiful ketubah ceremony as well and writing out the Hebrew so beautifully for us. Thank you, Rabbi Linda!!
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Ariel Sent on 11/05/2025
5 out of 5 rating

We love Rabbi Linda and Can’t recommend her enough for all life events!!!

We were so blessed and lucky to have Rabbi Linda as our wedding rabbi and then preside over the Brit baby naming for our son! We truly cannot recommend her enough and credit her for making our life milestone events so special and memorable. She takes such time and care creating ceremonies filled with love and tailored to the uniqueness of who you are. She brings so much meaning to every event and took time to walk through everything with us. Our first family and friends agreed that Rabbi Linda made our life events so very special and beautiful. She honors tradition along with exactly what we pictured for our events. We love Rabbi Linda and you will not be in better hands to preside over your wedding or life event!
Allie
Allie Sent on 04/27/2025
5 out of 5 rating

Such a special ceremony!

Rabbi Goldberg infused the perfect amount of tradition, elegance and humor into our ceremony. She spent the time getting to know us and the ceremony was personal and special. We received so many comments the whole night about how wonderful Rabbi Goldberg was!
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Lana Sent on 02/01/2025
5 out of 5 rating

Thank You Rabbi Linda

We are so truly grateful that Rabbi Linda officiated our wedding in September 2024. From our first meeting to the actual ceremony, she made us feel comfortable at each step and guided us patiently. She is truly a loving, caring, and supporting person. We are so happy to have met her and shared our special day together. As an interfaith and a multicultural family, we also truly appreciated Rabbi Linda’s ability to unite us around our similarities and to strengthen the spiritual and personal nature of our marriage. We are lucky to have her blessings.

Thank you, Rabbi Linda. We are so happy to have met you.

Lana & Erman
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Jessica Sent on 11/23/2024
5 out of 5 rating

Highly recommend Rabbi Linda!

My husband and I are so fortunate to have had Rabbi Linda officiate our Jewish wedding ceremony in the Bahamas. We are a fusion couple (Indian & Jewish) and Rabbi Linda was extremely helpful, knowledgeable, and accommodating throughout the wedding planning process. Rabbi Linda was always more than willing to hop on the phone with us to answer our questions and explain every step of the ceremony, making customized changes based on our preferences and modern views on partnership. During the ceremony, Linda was very engaging and took the time to explain each step in the ceremony in both English and Hebrew, making sure our guests felt included and understood everything that was going on. Rabbi Linda also added many personalized touches throughout the ceremony like using my family’s Kiddush cups and tallit, special wine that was important to us, and a thoughtful blessing speaking to our love. We heard from many guests after the ceremony how much they enjoyed the ceremony!

Overall, Rabbi Linda is extremely professional, kind, and an amazing rabbi. We HIGHLY recommend Rabbi Linda for anyone planning a Jewish wedding!
Bradley
Bradley Sent on 09/23/2024
5 out of 5 rating

Perfect Rabbi

Hiring Rabbi Linda to perform our wedding was one of the best, if not the best, decision we made throughout the entire wedding process. Rabbi Linda is a professional in every way, from organization through performance. But she is more than that. She made us feel as if she was our rabbi our whole lives, and connected with the audience and our family members in a pristine way. I would choose Rabbi Linda every single time over again. She is just the best.
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Lauren Sent on 12/30/2023
5 out of 5 rating

Amazing Wedding Officiant!

Four years ago, Rabbi Linda officiated our wedding and gave us an incredibly personal and meaningful ceremony. Before the wedding, she really got to know us over the course of multiple meetings and helped put together a ceremony based around our specific relationship. She is very flexible on tradition and will put the couple's needs first - we had an inter-faith wedding on a Saturday. She suggested a great mix of traditional and non-traditional elements to the ceremony, and her modern updates were some of our favorite moments of the day. Not only did we love her ideas, but pretty much every Jewish wedding we've been to since has incorporated some elements of our ceremony! She's also such a warm and caring person that she brought fantastic energy to the role and we loved getting to know her during the wedding planning process. Most of our guests thought she was a long-time family rabbi who had known us for years.

We just had our first child and asked Rabbi Linda to perform a baby naming ceremony for us. Just like with the wedding, she crafted a ceremony perfectly matched for us, mixing traditional prayers with modern readings that spoke to us. She remembered our preferences from four years earlier and referenced things she said in the wedding ceremony. We feel very fortunate to have her as our new family's rabbi, and strongly recommend her for all life cycle ceremonies.
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Olivia Sent on 12/17/2023
5 out of 5 rating

Personalized and heart warming experience

Our time with Rabbi Linda truly exceeded our expectations. From our very first meeting we knew we made the right choice. Rabbi Linda took the time to get to know us as individuals and as a couple. She explained Jewish traditions and allowed us to pick and explore new elements to make the ceremony our own! Rabbi Linda was very helpful with guidance for our ketubah, reviewing our vows and making sure all of our guests (from a Jewish background and not) could experience each moment in a thoughtful way. Rabbi Linda made many suggestions for ways to honor my non-Jewish family as well. If you are looking for someone you can fully trust with the most important part of your wedding day you have found the right person! Rabbi Linda will narrate your beautiful love story and curate a ceremony that is uniquely yours. Our guests are still talking about our ceremony. We hope our paths cross again!
With love,
Olivia and Adam
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Carrie Sent on 11/29/2023
5 out of 5 rating

Wonderful rabbi linda goldberg

It was such an honor to have Rabbi Goldberg officiate our wedding. From our first meeting to the wedding ceremony and everything in between, she was caring, kind, thoughtful and patient.
We enjoyed every moment under the Chuppah and will forever be grateful. She is a winner!
Carrie and Craig
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Samantha Sent on 09/16/2023
5 out of 5 rating

Wonderful experience all around!

Rabbi Linda was just the best! As an interfaith couple, we wanted to have a Jewish ceremony that honored the traditions while still being inclusive to our non-Jewish guests--and she delivered perfectly. We received so many compliments on the ceremony! Rabbi Linda met with us several times leading up to our wedding, getting to know us as a couple and helping us craft a special ceremony that felt true to us. We couldn't recommend Rabbi Linda enough!
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Awards

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WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards 2024 Winner
WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards 2023 Winner
WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards 2022 Winner
WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards 2021 Winner
WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards 2020 Winner
WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards 2019 Winner
WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards 2018 Winner

Professional Network & Endorsements

2 Endorsements
Rabbi Ken Hahn Rabbi Ken Hahn Wedding Officiants

Rabbi Linda Goldberg has a wealth of knowledge about Judaism, a deep wisdom about life and a delightful sense of fun. She is a spectacular wedding officiant whom I couldn’t recommend more highly. You’ll be so glad you chose to work with her.

Lovely Event Planning Lovely Event Planning Wedding Planners

Rabbi Linda is a true gem! She gave a beautifully touching ceremony for my client. She's so kind and wonderful to work with, I highly recommend her for your ceremony!

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