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Jackie Tabick
British Reform rabbi (born 1948) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jacqueline Hazel "Jackie" Tabick (née Acker; born 1948) is a British Reform rabbi. She became Britain's first female rabbi in 1975.[1][2] She retired in 2023 as convenor of the Movement for Reform Judaism's Beit Din,[3] the first woman in the role,[3][1] and until its closure in 2022 was also Rabbi of West Central Liberal Synagogue in Bloomsbury, central London.[4]
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Early life and training
Born in Dublin, Tabick spent most of her early life in England[5] and grew up in the community of South West Essex & Settlement Reform Synagogue.[6] After reading Medieval History for her degree at University College London, she enrolled at the Leo Baeck College where she completed her rabbinical training.[5] She graduated to become Britain's first female rabbi in 1975.[2]
Rabbinical life
Starting as the assistant rabbi at West London Synagogue under Rabbi Hugo Gryn,[7] she left in 1998 to become the rabbi of North West Surrey Synagogue.[2] She held this position until July 2013,[8][9] combining it with her role, since 2012, as the first female convenor of the Reform Movement's Beit Din.[1] She has previously been the Movement's vice-president and is patron of the Jewish Council for Racial Equality (JCORE).[10] She currently leads services at London's West Central Liberal Synagogue.[4]
Tabick has played a leading role in interfaith initiatives.[11] She is an executive of The Inter Faith Network.[2] She was, for many years, chair of the World Congress of Faiths and is now co-president.[12]
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Family life
She has been married to Rabbi Larry Tabick since 1975 and was the first female rabbi to marry a rabbi.[13] Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1947,[14] Larry came to England to study at the Leo Baeck College in the early 1970s and retired as rabbi of Shir Hayim in Hampstead in 2017.[14] He and Jackie have three children,[2][15] one of whom, Roni Tabick, is rabbi of the Masorti synagogue New Stoke Newington Shul in Stoke Newington, London.[3][16]
Other
The 2022 art exhibit "Holy Sparks", shown among other places at the Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, featured art about twenty-four female rabbis who were firsts in some way;[17][18] Sandy Bleifer created the artwork about Tabick that was in that exhibit.[19]
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