Lynn Gottlieb

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).[3]

In 2007 she was selected as one of The Other Top 50 Rabbis by Letty Cottin Pogrebin.[6] 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.[7]

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.[8]

Gottlieb supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign.[9]

  1. ^ "Lynn Gottlieb". Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  2. ^ "The Torah of Nonviolence". Tricycle. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  3. ^ a b "Advisory Board : Who We Are : Embodied Jewish spiritual leadership, creativity and community from an earth-honoring, feminist perspective". Kohenet. Archived from the original on September 18, 2011. Retrieved November 18, 2011.
  4. ^ "Jewish Heroes in America". Florida Atlantic University. 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. ^ 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.
  7. ^ U.S. Rabbi Leads Delegation to Iran[permanent dead link], The Jerusalem Post, April 28, 2008. Accessed May 6, 2008. [dead link]
  8. ^ "The Women Rabbis Of New Mexico". The Forward. July 15, 2014. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  9. ^ Is BDS the Way to End the Occupation?, Tikkun, July/August 2010. Accessed October 7, 2013.