Biography

Judy Harrow was born in the Bronx

The Bronx

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 also known as Judith Harrow and has lived the majority of her life in New York City

New York City

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Education

Harrow graduated from Bronx High School of Science

Bronx High School of Science

The Bronx High School of Science is a specialized New York City public high school often considered the premier science magnet school in the United States. Founded in 1938, it is now located in the Bedford Park section of the Bronx...

 in 1962. She then received a B.A. in American Government from Western College for Women

Western College for Women

Western College for Women was a women's college in Oxford, Ohio between 1855 and 1974.-History:Western College was founded in 1853 as Western Female Seminary. It was a daughter school of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Its first principal Helen Peabody and most of the early...

 in 1966. In 1977 she participated in the La Jolla Program in Group Facilitation. In 1979 Judy Harrow graduated from City College of New York

City College of New York

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 Graduate School of Education with a M.S. in Counseling with honors.

Mainstream counseling work

Judy Harrow is a member of the Association for Humanistic Psychology

Humanistic psychology

Humanistic psychology is a psychological perspective which rose to prominence in the mid-20th century, drawing on the work of early pioneers like Carl Rogers and the philosophies of existentialism and phenomenology...

 and of the American Counseling Association. Within ACA, she belongs to the following special interest subgroups:

the Association for Spiritual, Ethical and Religious Values in Counseling (ASERVIC)

the Association for Specialists in Group Work (ASGW)

the International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors (IAMFC).

Harrow is the President of New Jersey ASERVIC, and serves on the Book Review Board of the Family Journal, a publication of IAMFC.

Harrow is a member of the National Advisory Board of the Consultation on Multifaith Education. She is also a member of the steering committee of the Interfaith Council of Greater New York. She manages the Council's email list and acts as their liaison with the United Religions Initiative. She served as the Council's Program Coordinator in the year 1996-1997.
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Neo-Paganism

Judy Harrow began to study Witchcraft in 1976, and was initiated as a Priestess in September 1977. She founded the Inwood Study Group in June, 1980. After receiving her Third Degree initiation (Gardnerian) in November, 1980, this group became Proteus Coven. Proteus affiliated with Covenant of the Goddess

Covenant of the Goddess

The Covenant of the Goddess is a cross-traditional Wiccan group of solitary Wiccan practitioners and over one hundred affiliated covens . It was founded in 1975 in order to increase co-operation among Witches and to secure for Witches and covens the legal protection enjoyed by members of other...

 in August, 1981. She served as convening First Officer of Northeast Local Council of CoG in 1983, National First Officer of CoG in 1984, and Co-chair of CoG Grand Council in 1985. She has held various other positions on the CoG National and Local Boards of Directors, most recently National Public Information Officer from 1993-1995.

Judy Harrow was the first member of CoG to be legally registered as clergy in New York City in 1985, after a five year effort requiring the assistance of New York Civil Liberties Union

New York Civil Liberties Union

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Judy Harrow is the Chair of the Pastoral Counseling Department at Cherry Hill Seminary

Cherry Hill Seminary

Cherry Hill Seminary, located in South Carolina, is an educational institution for Pagan teachers, ministers and clergy. Cherry Hill has more than twenty full-time or part-time faculty. Some, such as M. Macha Nightmare, are well-known in the pagan community; most are published authors/scholars in...

. She founded the Pagan Pastoral Counseling Network in 1982, and served as the first editor of the Network's publication. She co-created a workshop series on Basic Counseling Skills for Coven Leaders, which has successfully run many times. This grew into a series of intensive workshops for Pagan elders on a range of topics. Judy also founded the New York Area Coven Leaders' Peer Support Group. She served as Program Coordinator for the first Mid-Atlantic Pan Pagan Conference and Festival and for seven other Pagan gatherings.

For two years, Judy produced "Reconnections," a weekly feature on the activities of religious progressives of all faiths, for WBAI radio in New York.

Harrow contributed two essays to Modern Rites of Passage (Book 2 in the "Witchcraft Today" anthology series.), and one to the anthology Magical Religion and Modern Witchcraft, published in 1996 by SUNY Press. One of these essays has since been reprinted in The Paganism Reader (Routledge, 2004).
She has also written for AHP Perspective (the Newsletter of the Association for Humanistic Psychology), Counseling and Values (the Journal of the Association for Spiritual, Ethical and Religious Values in Counseling), Gnosis, and such small Pagan publications as Dayshift, Harvest, and the CoG Newsletter.
Harrow is a regular contributor to PanGaia, where her column “Mind and Magic” was introduced in their Summer, 2004 issue.
Her first book, Wicca Covens, was published in 1999. Her second book, Spiritual Mentoring, was published in 2002. Judy also edited (and contributed to) Devoted to You: Honoring Deity in Wiccan Practice, which was published in 2003, and coordinated the 50th Anniversary reissue of Witchcraft Today

Witchcraft Today

In the book Gardner also repeats the claim, which had originated with Matilda Joslyn Gage, that 9 million victims were killed in the European witch-hunts." Current scholarly estimates of the number of people executed for witchcraft during this time period vary between about 40,000 and 100,000.The...

 by Gerald Gardner

Gerald Gardner

Gerald Brousseau Gardner , who sometimes used the craft name Scire, was an influential English Wiccan, as well as an amateur anthropologist and archaeologist, writer, weaponry expert and occultist. He was instrumental in bringing the Neopagan religion of Wicca to public attention in Britain and...

, published in 2004.