Rachel Isaacs
Rachel Isaacs was the first openly lesbian rabbi ordained by the Conservative movement’s Jewish Theological Seminary ("JTS"), which occurred in May 2011.[1] She transferred to JTS from the Reform movement’s Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in her third year of rabbinical school.[2] Isaacs previously earned her B.A. from Wellesley College in 2005, where she was the Hillel Co-President.[3] [4] She is now the rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel in Waterville, Maine, which is a Conservative synagogue.[3][5]
Isaacs was mentored at JTS by Rabbi Carie Carter, who placed the tallit across Isaacs' shoulders at her ordination.[2] Rabbi Carter was a closeted lesbian during her own time at JTS, and wrote the originally-anonymous chapter "In Hiding" about lesbian Conservative rabbis in the 2001 book Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation.[1] Rabbi Carter is now openly lesbian, and works at Brooklyn's Park Slope Jewish Center, which Rachel Isaacs interned at.[1]
In 2014 Isaacs was named one of "America’s Most Inspiring Rabbis" by the Jewish Daily Forward.[5]
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