Lynn Gottlieb

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Lynn Gottlieb (born April 12, 1949 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) is an American rabbi in the Jewish Renewal movement. [1]

In 1974, she founded the now-defunct feminist theater troupe Bat Kol. [2] [3]

In 1981, she became the first woman ordained as a rabbi in the Jewish Renewal movement; she was ordained by rabbis Zalman Schachter, Everett Gendler, and Shlomo Carlebach. [4] [5] She authored She Who Dwells Within: A Feminist Vision of a Renewed Judaism (1995). [6]

In 2007 she was selected as one of The Other Top 50 Rabbis by Letty Cottin Pogrebin. [7] Gottlieb led a Fellowship of Reconciliation delegation to Iran in 2008, thus becoming the first female rabbi to visit Iran in a public delegation since the 1979 Iranian Revolution. [8]

A 2013 dissertation from the University of New Mexico's department of anthropology, “Storied Lives in a Living Tradition: Women Rabbis and Jewish Community in 21st Century New Mexico,” by Dr. Miria Kano, discusses Gottlieb and four other female rabbis of New Mexico. [9]

Gottlieb supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign. [10]

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  2. ↑ "The Torah of Nonviolence - Tricycle" . Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  3. ↑ "Advisory Board : Who We Are : Embodied Jewish spiritual leadership, creativity and community from an earth-honoring, feminist perspective : Kohenet". Archived from the original on 2011-09-18. Retrieved 2011-11-18.
  4. ↑ "Jewish Heroes in America". Archived from the original on 10 May 2013. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  5. ↑ "Pioneering rabbi finds deep satisfaction in storytelling, living life...", Albuquerque Journal , January 2, 2000. "Gottlieb, a nationally known storyteller, was the first woman to be ordained as a rabbi in the Jewish Renewal movement and the third generation in her family to found a synagogue.
  6. ↑ "Advisory Board : Who We Are : Embodied Jewish spiritual leadership, creativity and community from an earth-honoring, feminist perspective : Kohenet". Archived from the original on 2011-09-18. Retrieved 2011-11-18.
  7. ↑ Letty Cottin Pogrebin: 50 Top Rabbis, The Washington Post / Newsweek On Faith: A Conversation on Religion with Jon Meacham and Sally Quinn, April 29, 2007. Accessed June 19, 2007.
  8. ↑ / U.S. Rabbi Leads Delegation to Iran [ permanent dead link ], "The Jerusalem Post", April 28, 2008. Accessed May 6, 2008. [ dead link ]
  9. ↑ "The Women Rabbis Of New Mexico". The Jewish Daily Forward. 15 July 2014. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  10. ↑ / Is BDS the Way to End the Occupation?, "Tikkun Magazine", July/August, 2010. Accessed October, 7 2013.
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