Ellen Weinberg Dreyfus
Ellen Weinberg Dreyfus is an American rabbi. She is a founder and former president of the Women's Rabbinic Network, which was founded in 1976 by fifteen female rabbinical students.[1][2] She was ordained in 1979 at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, and is to her knowledge the first woman to be ordained as a rabbi while pregnant.[3][4] In 1983 she moved back to Illinois, becoming the first female rabbi in that state.[3] In 2001 she became the first female president of the Chicago Board of Rabbis.[3][4][5] In 2004 the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion awarded her an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree.[4] In 2009 she was installed as the second female president of Reform Judaism's Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) in Jerusalem, making her the first female leader of a major rabbinic organization to begin her tenure in Israel.[6] In 2009 she was also inducted onto the Board of Governors of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.[4] In 2010 she was selected as one of the top 50 rabbis in America by Newsweek and the Sisterhood blog of the The Jewish Daily Forward.[2] In 2011 she received the Rabbi Mordecai Simon Memorial Award.[7] She is married and has three children.[4]
References
- ↑ "CCAR Journal - 9/97". eb.archive.org. Retrieved 2014-01-26.
- 1 2 "The Sisterhood 50 –". Forward.com. Retrieved 2013-05-16.
- 1 2 3 Donna Kiesling (2001-07-04). "Rabbi stays at forefront of change - Chicago Tribune". Articles.chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2013-05-16.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "HUC-JIR: Press Room - Rabbi Ellen W. Dreyfus Inducted onto Board of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion". Huc.edu. 2009-05-04. Retrieved 2013-05-16.
- ↑ "First woman named president of rabbi board - WorldWide Religious News". Wwrn.org. 2001-03-20. Retrieved 2013-05-16.
- ↑ "JUF News : Reform Jewish Rabbinate leadership remains in Chicago with new leader". Juf.org. Retrieved 2013-05-16.
- ↑ "Chicago Board of Rabbis : Event Photos". Juf.org. Retrieved 2013-05-16.