Lisa Grushcow is a Canadian rabbi. She was a Rhodes scholar in the 1990s.[1][2] In 2012, she became senior rabbi at Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom in Montreal.[1][3] She was born in Ottawa, Ontario, and raised in Toronto,[4] and studied at McGill before earning a doctorate at Oxford.[1] 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.[4]
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.
References
Sources
- Arnold, Janice (March 2, 2012). "Temple's new senior rabbi hopes to 'open doors'". Canadian Jewish News.
- "Talk to me about sex, rabbi – Who knew rabbis could have so many interesting things to say about sex?". Montreal Gazette. May 26, 2014.
- Rukavina, Steve (May 8, 2017). "How personal struggles made Lisa Grushcow a better rabbi". CBC News.
- Bilefsky, Dan (July 12, 2019). "Gay and Once Divorced, a Canadian Rabbi Broadens Judaism's Tent". The New York Times.
Further reading
- Shiller, Romy. "Rabbis 2015: Lisa Grushcow". The Forward.
- Stoll, Ira (July 17, 2019). "New York Times Touts 'Gay and Once Divorced' Rabbi". Algemeiner Journal.
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