Alexandra Wright

Alexandra Wright was appointed as the first female senior rabbi in England in 2004, as rabbi of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue in St. John's Wood, London. [1]

Wright became the seventh woman to be ordained as a rabbi in the United Kingdom in 1986; she was ordained at Leo Baeck College, and has taught classical Hebrew there.[2][3] She served as Associate Rabbi at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue from 1986 until 1989.[2] She then served as rabbi at Radlett and Bushey Reform Synagogue in Hertfordshire from 1990 until 2003.[2]

She has two children, Gabrielle and Benedict.[4]

In 2010 she wrote an open letter to Rowan Williams, then the Archbishop of Canterbury, asking him to ordain women as bishops.[3]

She has contributed to two anthologies of women rabbis' essays and liturgies – Hear our Voice and Taking up the Timbrel.[2] She is also the only woman whose sermon has been included in Rabbi Professor Marc Saperstein's Jewish Preaching in Times of War.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Axelrod, Tony (7 August 2009). "Women taking reins of Jewish communal life in Europe". Jewish Telegraph Agency. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Senior Rabbi Alexandra Wright". The Liberal Jewish Synagogue. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Rocker, Simon (15 July 2010). "Ordain women, rabbi urges the Archbishop". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Rabbi Alexandra Wright". The Jewish Chronicle. 1 May 2008. Retrieved 22 February 2014.