Rebecca Alpert

Rebecca Trachtenberg Alpert (born April 12, 1950 in Brooklyn , United States ) is an American author and rabbi .

Life

Alpert attended Erasmus Hall High School and Barnard College . She studied Jewish theology at Temple University and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (RRC) in Wyncote , Pennsylvania , just outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She specialized in American Jewish history . Your instructors included Elaine Pagels and Mordechai M. Kaplan . As a rabbi, she then worked at various synagogues in the United States and Canada. In 1986 she came out as a lesbian, separated from her previous husband Joel Alpert, with whom she has two children, and began a relationship with Christie Balka . In the following years, she was appointed professor of Jewish religion at Temple University.

Works (selection)

• Exploring Judaism: A Reconstructionist Approach with Jacob Staub , (Reconstructionist Press, 1985, revised edition 2000)
• Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation , Editor (with Sue Elwell and Shirley Idelson), (Rutgers University Press, 2001)
• Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition (Columbia University Press, 1997)
• The Life and Thought Of Tehilla Lichtenstein
• Voices of the Religious Left: A Contemporary Sourcebook , Editor (Temple University Press, 2000)
• Whose Torah ?: A Concise Guide to Progressive Judaism (The New Press, 2008)
• Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball (Oxford University Press, 2011)
• Religion and Sports: An Introduction and Case Studies (Columbia University Press, 2015)

Awards and prizes (selection)

• 1998: Lambda Literary Award for Like Bread on the Seder Plate

Web links

• University Temple: Rebecca Alpert
• LGBTRAN.org: Rebecca Alpert

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Washington Times: Embassy Row: Pink washing and pink elephant
2. ↑ LGBTRAN.org: Rebecca Alpert
3. ^ University Temple: Rebecca Alpert