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'''Stacy Offner''' is an openly lesbian American rabbi who has accomplished some firsts for women and lesbians in the rabbinate. <ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=wWqDztbNgpYC&pg=PA172&lpg=PA172&dq=shir+tikvah+reform+lesbian&source=bl&ots=q64zIwLxXb&sig=zR8FaLkbprWNbXnDY1PD_LQt2XY&hl=en&ei=eIW1TtHHEaKc2AWIhrzMDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&sqi=2&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=shir%20tikvah%20reform%20lesbian&f=false</ref> <ref>http://urj.org/about/union/pr/2008/rabbi_offner/</ref> She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Kenyon College and earned an M.A. in Hebrew Literature from [[Hebrew Union College]] in New York. <ref>http://www.adathemanuel.com/aboutus/staff/</ref> <ref>http://www.womenspress.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=3074</ref> She also has an honorary degree from Hebrew Union College. <ref>http://www.adathemanuel.com/aboutus/staff/</ref> She was ordained in 1984 by Hebrew Union College, and that year she became the first female rabbi in Minnesota. <ref>http://www.shirtikvah.net/Rabbis</ref> <ref>http://urj.org/about/union/pr/2008/rabbi_offner/</ref> <ref>http://www.womenspress.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=3074</ref> However, she was fired from her job as associate rabbi when she came out as a lesbian in 1987. <ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=wWqDztbNgpYC&pg=PA172&lpg=PA172&dq=shir+tikvah+reform+lesbian&source=bl&ots=q64zIwLxXb&sig=zR8FaLkbprWNbXnDY1PD_LQt2XY&hl=en&ei=eIW1TtHHEaKc2AWIhrzMDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&sqi=2&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=shir%20tikvah%20reform%20lesbian&f=false</ref> <ref>http://www.womenspress.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=3074</ref> She was the first rabbi in a traditional congregation to come out as a lesbian. <ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=wWqDztbNgpYC&pg=PA172&lpg=PA172&dq=shir+tikvah+reform+lesbian&source=bl&ots=q64zIwLxXb&sig=zR8FaLkbprWNbXnDY1PD_LQt2XY&hl=en&ei=eIW1TtHHEaKc2AWIhrzMDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&sqi=2&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=shir%20tikvah%20reform%20lesbian&f=false</ref> She left with some of her congregants and in 1988 they founded Shir Tikvah, a Reform congregation in Minneapolis where she was the first rabbi. <ref>http://www.womenspress.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=3074</ref> <ref>http://urj.org/about/union/pr/2008/rabbi_offner/</ref> <ref>http://www.shirtikvah.net/AboutUsIntro</ref> <ref>http://www.shirtikvah.net/Rabbis</ref> In 2008 Stacy Offner became the first female vice president of the [[Union for Reform Judaism]], a position she held for two years. <ref>http://urj.org/about/union/pr/2008/rabbi_offner/</ref> <ref>http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:61PH_PniCE4J:www.shirtikvah.net/Resources/Documents/JuneJuly2011.pdf+shir+tikvah+reform+stacy+offner&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESh6kO2y1n8CIBAb5Er8L9CThafJGLIhwVxHJ30rfCLctfXeR-AlmjXgu3YNvoHBfQ-F79uF1AhYkoS6VcDetihCtpT60YVeH6I1YEMEBtO_kHwU1o6lhwDVzjqfpOGN0-S5Uu19&sig=AHIEtbS_hmcfzDmU-SNv7trkxyagXTME5A</ref> She is currently a rabbi at Adath Emanu-El in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. <ref>http://www.adathemanuel.com/aboutus/staff/</ref>
'''Stacy Offner''' is an openly lesbian American rabbi who has accomplished some firsts for women and lesbians in the rabbinate. <ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=wWqDztbNgpYC&pg=PA172&lpg=PA172&dq=shir+tikvah+reform+lesbian&source=bl&ots=q64zIwLxXb&sig=zR8FaLkbprWNbXnDY1PD_LQt2XY&hl=en&ei=eIW1TtHHEaKc2AWIhrzMDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&sqi=2&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=shir%20tikvah%20reform%20lesbian&f=false</ref> <ref>http://urj.org/about/union/pr/2008/rabbi_offner/</ref> She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Kenyon College and earned an M.A. in Hebrew Literature from [[Hebrew Union College]] in New York. <ref>http://www.adathemanuel.com/aboutus/staff/</ref> <ref>http://www.womenspress.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=3074</ref> She also has an honorary degree from Hebrew Union College. <ref>http://www.adathemanuel.com/aboutus/staff/</ref> She was ordained in 1984 by Hebrew Union College, and that year she became the first female rabbi in Minnesota. <ref>http://www.shirtikvah.net/Rabbis</ref> <ref>http://urj.org/about/union/pr/2008/rabbi_offner/</ref> <ref>http://www.womenspress.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=3074</ref> However, she was fired from her job as associate rabbi when she came out as a lesbian in 1987. <ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=wWqDztbNgpYC&pg=PA172&lpg=PA172&dq=shir+tikvah+reform+lesbian&source=bl&ots=q64zIwLxXb&sig=zR8FaLkbprWNbXnDY1PD_LQt2XY&hl=en&ei=eIW1TtHHEaKc2AWIhrzMDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&sqi=2&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=shir%20tikvah%20reform%20lesbian&f=false</ref> <ref>http://www.womenspress.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=3074</ref> She was the first rabbi in a traditional congregation to come out as a lesbian. <ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=wWqDztbNgpYC&pg=PA172&lpg=PA172&dq=shir+tikvah+reform+lesbian&source=bl&ots=q64zIwLxXb&sig=zR8FaLkbprWNbXnDY1PD_LQt2XY&hl=en&ei=eIW1TtHHEaKc2AWIhrzMDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&sqi=2&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=shir%20tikvah%20reform%20lesbian&f=false</ref> She left with some of her congregants and in 1988 they founded Shir Tikvah, a Reform congregation in Minneapolis where she was the first rabbi. <ref>http://www.womenspress.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=3074</ref> <ref>http://urj.org/about/union/pr/2008/rabbi_offner/</ref> <ref>http://www.shirtikvah.net/AboutUsIntro</ref> <ref>http://www.shirtikvah.net/Rabbis</ref> Thus she became the first openly lesbian rabbi hired by a mainstream Jewish congregation (Shir Tikvah). <ref>Dana Evan Kaplan [http://books.google.com/books?id=qQoaBa7D-9oC&pg=PA255 Contemporary American Judaism: transformation and renewal] Columbia University Press, 2009 ISBN 0231137281, p. 255</ref><ref>[http://www.shirtikvah.net/Default.aspx?pageId=675181 Our Roots]. Shir Tikvah. Retrieved on 2010-11-30.</ref>. In 2008 Stacy Offner became the first female vice president of the [[Union for Reform Judaism]], a position she held for two years. <ref>http://urj.org/about/union/pr/2008/rabbi_offner/</ref> <ref>http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:61PH_PniCE4J:www.shirtikvah.net/Resources/Documents/JuneJuly2011.pdf+shir+tikvah+reform+stacy+offner&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESh6kO2y1n8CIBAb5Er8L9CThafJGLIhwVxHJ30rfCLctfXeR-AlmjXgu3YNvoHBfQ-F79uF1AhYkoS6VcDetihCtpT60YVeH6I1YEMEBtO_kHwU1o6lhwDVzjqfpOGN0-S5Uu19&sig=AHIEtbS_hmcfzDmU-SNv7trkxyagXTME5A</ref> She is currently a rabbi at Adath Emanu-El in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. <ref>http://www.adathemanuel.com/aboutus/staff/</ref>




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Stacy Offner is an openly lesbian American rabbi who has accomplished some firsts for women and lesbians in the rabbinate. [1] [2] She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Kenyon College and earned an M.A. in Hebrew Literature from Hebrew Union College in New York. [3] [4] She also has an honorary degree from Hebrew Union College. [5] She was ordained in 1984 by Hebrew Union College, and that year she became the first female rabbi in Minnesota. [6] [7] [8] However, she was fired from her job as associate rabbi when she came out as a lesbian in 1987. [9] [10] She was the first rabbi in a traditional congregation to come out as a lesbian. [11] She left with some of her congregants and in 1988 they founded Shir Tikvah, a Reform congregation in Minneapolis where she was the first rabbi. [12] [13] [14] [15] Thus she became the first openly lesbian rabbi hired by a mainstream Jewish congregation (Shir Tikvah). [16][17]. In 2008 Stacy Offner became the first female vice president of the Union for Reform Judaism, a position she held for two years. [18] [19] She is currently a rabbi at Adath Emanu-El in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. [20]


References

  1. ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=wWqDztbNgpYC&pg=PA172&lpg=PA172&dq=shir+tikvah+reform+lesbian&source=bl&ots=q64zIwLxXb&sig=zR8FaLkbprWNbXnDY1PD_LQt2XY&hl=en&ei=eIW1TtHHEaKc2AWIhrzMDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&sqi=2&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=shir%20tikvah%20reform%20lesbian&f=false
  2. ^ http://urj.org/about/union/pr/2008/rabbi_offner/
  3. ^ http://www.adathemanuel.com/aboutus/staff/
  4. ^ http://www.womenspress.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=3074
  5. ^ http://www.adathemanuel.com/aboutus/staff/
  6. ^ http://www.shirtikvah.net/Rabbis
  7. ^ http://urj.org/about/union/pr/2008/rabbi_offner/
  8. ^ http://www.womenspress.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=3074
  9. ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=wWqDztbNgpYC&pg=PA172&lpg=PA172&dq=shir+tikvah+reform+lesbian&source=bl&ots=q64zIwLxXb&sig=zR8FaLkbprWNbXnDY1PD_LQt2XY&hl=en&ei=eIW1TtHHEaKc2AWIhrzMDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&sqi=2&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=shir%20tikvah%20reform%20lesbian&f=false
  10. ^ http://www.womenspress.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=3074
  11. ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=wWqDztbNgpYC&pg=PA172&lpg=PA172&dq=shir+tikvah+reform+lesbian&source=bl&ots=q64zIwLxXb&sig=zR8FaLkbprWNbXnDY1PD_LQt2XY&hl=en&ei=eIW1TtHHEaKc2AWIhrzMDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&sqi=2&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=shir%20tikvah%20reform%20lesbian&f=false
  12. ^ http://www.womenspress.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=3074
  13. ^ http://urj.org/about/union/pr/2008/rabbi_offner/
  14. ^ http://www.shirtikvah.net/AboutUsIntro
  15. ^ http://www.shirtikvah.net/Rabbis
  16. ^ Dana Evan Kaplan Contemporary American Judaism: transformation and renewal Columbia University Press, 2009 ISBN 0231137281, p. 255
  17. ^ Our Roots. Shir Tikvah. Retrieved on 2010-11-30.
  18. ^ http://urj.org/about/union/pr/2008/rabbi_offner/
  19. ^ http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:61PH_PniCE4J:www.shirtikvah.net/Resources/Documents/JuneJuly2011.pdf+shir+tikvah+reform+stacy+offner&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESh6kO2y1n8CIBAb5Er8L9CThafJGLIhwVxHJ30rfCLctfXeR-AlmjXgu3YNvoHBfQ-F79uF1AhYkoS6VcDetihCtpT60YVeH6I1YEMEBtO_kHwU1o6lhwDVzjqfpOGN0-S5Uu19&sig=AHIEtbS_hmcfzDmU-SNv7trkxyagXTME5A
  20. ^ http://www.adathemanuel.com/aboutus/staff/
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