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 (UK). Archived from the original on 27 March 2015. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  3. 1 2 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. 1 2 "Our Rabbi". Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue. 9 October 2013. 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. doi:10.1353/sho.2005.0084. S2CID 145367622. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  8. ↑ Sarah, Elizabeth Tikvah (9 April 2011). "About Trouble-Making Judaism". Rabbiellisarah.com. Archived from the original on 13 April 2015. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
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