Elizabeth Tikvah Sarah

Elizabeth Tikvah Sarah (also known as Rabbi Elli Sarah) is a British rabbi and author.[1][2][3]

Sarah graduated from the London School of Economics in 1977 and was ordained in 1989.[4] Sarah (who took her middle name as her surname) and Rabbi Sheila Shulman were the first openly lesbian graduates of the Leo Baeck College.[3] Sarah was also one of the first ten female rabbis ordained in Britain.[5] Sarah worked as a full-time congregational rabbi for Buckhurst Hill Reform Synagogue, 1989–94, as Director of Programmes for the Reform Synagogues of Great Britain and Deputy Director of the Sternberg Centre, 1994–97, and as a freelance rabbi, including a part-time congregational appointment for the Leicester Progressive Jewish Congregation, 1998–2000.[6]

Sarah has edited five books, written the book Trouble-Making Judaism, and contributed to several journals and anthologies, including writing Chapter 5, "Being a Lesbian Rabbi", in Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation, by Rebecca Alpert, Sue Levi Elwell and Shirley Idelson (Rutgers University Press, 2001).[6][7][8]

References
  1. Sarah, Rabbi Elizabeth Tikvah (27 September 2008). "Comment is free: Face to Faith". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 4 November 2014. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  2. "Rabbi Elizabeth Tikvah Sarah". Liberal Judaism. Archived from the original on 27 March 2015. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  3. Rocker, Simon (15 March 2012). "Why trouble should be a rabbi's middle name". The Jewish Chronicle. Archived from the original on 3 November 2014. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  4. Sarah, Rabbi Elizabeth Tikvah (1 April 2008). "Being one of the first British female rabbis". New Statesman. Archived from the original on 26 September 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
  5. "The Power 50 – Celebrating Influential". The Jewish Chronicle. 20 September 2012. Archived from the original on 12 September 2015. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  6. "Our Rabbi". Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue. Archived from the original on 6 April 2015. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  7. Adler, Rachel (Spring 2005). "Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation (review)". Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. 3 (23): 209–212. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  8. Sarah, Elizabeth Tikvah. "About Trouble-Making Judaism". Rabbiellisarah.com. Archived from the original on 13 April 2015. Retrieved 13 April 2015.

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