Began 2012 Role Rabbi Name Jackie Tabick | Denomination Reform Judaism Nationality British | |
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Position Convenor of the Reform Movement Beit Din Organisation Movement for Reform Judaism Spouse Rabbi Larry Tabick (m. 1975) | ||
Jackie tabick the balancing act of compassion
Jacqueline "Jackie" Tabick (born 1948) is a British Reform rabbi. She became Britain's first female rabbi in 1975. She is Convenor of the Movement for Reform Judaism's Beit Din, the first woman in the role.
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- Jackie tabick the balancing act of compassion
- Female rabbi jackie tabick justthis day
- Early life and training
- Rabbinical life
- Family life
- References
Female rabbi jackie tabick justthis day
Early life and training
Born in Dublin, Tabick spent most of her early life in England and grew up in the community of South West Essex & Settlement Reform Synagogue. After reading Medieval History for her degree at University College London, she enrolled at the Leo Baeck College where she completed her rabbinical training. She graduated to become Britain's first female rabbi in 1975.
Rabbinical life
Starting as the assistant rabbi at West London Synagogue under Rabbi Hugo Gryn, she left in 1998 to become the rabbi of North West Surrey Synagogue. She held this position until July 2013, combining it with her role, since 2012, as the first female Convenor of the Reform Movement's Beit Din. She has previously been the Movement's vice-president and is patron of the Jewish Council for Racial Equality (JCORE). She currently leads services at London's West Central Liberal Synagogue.
Tabick has played a leading role in interfaith initiatives. She is an executive of the Interfaith Network. She was, for many years, chair of the World Congress of Faiths and is now co-president.
Family life
She has been married to Rabbi Larry Tabick since 1975 and became the first woman rabbi to marry a rabbi. Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1947, Larry came to England to study at the Leo Baeck College in the early 1970s and is now the rabbi at Shir Hayim in Hampstead. He and Jackie have three children.