Stacy Offner

Stacy Offner is an openly lesbian American rabbi.[1][2] She was the first openly lesbian rabbi hired by a mainstream Jewish congregation, and the first female rabbi in Minnesota. She also became the first rabbi elected chaplain of the Minnesota Senate, the first female vice president of the Union for Reform Judaism, and the first woman to serve on the [U.S.] national rabbinical pension board.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ a b Alpert, R.T., Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition, Columbia University Press, 1998.
  2. ^ a b Rabbi Offner Archived 2014-02-02 at the Wayback Machine, Union for Reform Judaism website. Retrieved 2011-11-05.
  3. ^ "Offner continues her trailblazing ways". Star Tribune. Retrieved 29 October 2014.