Alexandra Wright is a British Liberal rabbi who was appointed as the first female senior rabbi in England in 2004, as Rabbi of the
Liberal Jewish Synagogue in
St John's Wood
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, London. She is President of
Liberal Judaism in the United Kingdom.
Wright became the seventh woman to be ordained as a rabbi in the United Kingdom in 1986; she was ordained at
Leo Baeck College, and has taught
classical Hebrew
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there.
She served as Associate Rabbi at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue from 1986 until 1989.
[ She then served as Rabbi at Radlett and Bushey Reform Synagogue in ]Hertfordshire
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from 1989 until 2003.Archbishop of Canterbury
The archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and a principal leader of the Church of England, the Primus inter pares, ceremonial head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the bishop of the diocese of Canterbury. The first archbishop ...
, asking him to ordain women as bishops.[
She has contributed to two anthologies of women rabbis' essays and liturgies – ''Hear our Voice'' and ''Taking up the Timbrel.''][ She is also the only woman whose sermon has been included in Rabbi Professor Marc Saperstein's ''Jewish Preaching in Times of War''.][
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Personal life
She has two children, Gabrielle and Benedict.
References
External links
Profile at Liberal Judaism website
Living people
20th-century English rabbis
21st-century English rabbis
Alumni of Leo Baeck College
British Liberal rabbis
Rabbis from London
Women rabbis
Year of birth missing (living people)
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