Lisa Grushcow

Lisa Grushcow is a Canadian rabbi.

Early life

She was born in Ottawa, Ontario, and raised in Toronto.[1]

Education and ordination

She studied at McGill University before earning a doctorate at Oxford.[2] She was a Rhodes scholar in the 1990s. She was ordained in 2003 at the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City.[2][3]

Career

In 2012, she became the first female senior rabbi at Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom in Westmount, which also made her the first female senior rabbi of any Canadian congregation with more than 1,000 member families.[2][4] Being a rabbi for that synagogue made her the first openly gay rabbi of a large synagogue in Canada.[2]

In 2014 she edited the Central Conference of American Rabbis's The Sacred Encounter: Jewish Perspectives on Sexuality, meant to communicate Judaism and sexuality to lay readers.[1]

Bibliography

  • Grushcow, Lisa, ed. (March 1, 2014). The Sacred Encounter: Jewish Perspectives on Sexuality. Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) Press. OCLC 869141170.
  • Grushcow, Lisa (2018). "A Jewish view of sexuality". In Peter Knobel; Simeon J. Maslin (eds.). Navigating the Journey: The Essential Guide to the Jewish Life Cycle. CCAR Press. OCLC 1111664760.

Personal life

She has been divorced, and afterward remarried. As of 2019 she had two daughters.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Montreal Gazette
  2. ^ a b c d e Bilefsky 2019
  3. ^ Rukavina 2017
  4. ^ Arnold 2012

Sources

Further reading


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