Lisa Grushcow is a Canadian rabbi.
She was born in Ottawa, Ontario, and raised in Toronto. [1]
She studied at McGill University before earning a doctorate at Oxford. [2] She was a Rhodes scholar in the 1990s. She was ordained in 2003 at the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City. [2] [3]
In 2012, she became the first female senior rabbi at Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom in Westmount, which also made her the first female senior rabbi of any Canadian congregation with more than 1,000 member families. [2] [4] Being a rabbi for that synagogue made her the first openly gay rabbi of a large synagogue in Canada. [2]
In 2014 she edited the Central Conference of American Rabbis 's The Sacred Encounter: Jewish Perspectives on Sexuality, meant to communicate Judaism and sexuality to lay readers. [1]
She has been divorced, and afterward remarried. As of 2019 she had two daughters. [2]
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