Lynn Gottlieb

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Lynn Gottlieb entered pulpit life at the age of 23 in 1973, as rabbi to Temple Beth Or of the Deaf in New York City. In 1981, she became the first woman ordained in the Jewish Renewal movement.[1] She has been recognized as one of America's 50 Top Rabbis.[2]

Gottlieb's focus on spiritual meaning has helped shape the Jewish Renewal movement. In 1974, she founded "Bat Kol", a Jewish feminist theatre troupe that has performed throughout North America and Europe. In 1983, she moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she co-founded Congregation Nahalat Shalom. Gottlieb moved to Southern California to head Interfaith Inventions, a new organization which works ecumenically to promote interfaith youth camp programs nationwide, building on her work as co-founder of the Muslim-Jewish Peace Walk. She is a founder of the Shomer Shalom Institute for Jewish Nonviolence. She has one child; a son who now lives in LA.

Gottlieb led a Fellowship of Reconciliation delegation to Iran in 2008, thus becoming the first U.S. Rabbi and the first female Rabbi to visit Iran in a public delegation since the 1979 Iranian revolution.[3]

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  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ / U.S. Rabbi Leads Delegation to Iran, "The Jerusalem Post", April 28, 2008. Accessed May 6, 2008.

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