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, London. ^[1] She is President of Liberal Judaism in the United Kingdom. ^[2]

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 there. ^{[3] [4]} She served as Associate Rabbi at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue from 1986 until 1989. ^[3] She then served as Rabbi at Radlett and Bushey Reform Synagogue in Hertfordshire from 1989 until 2003. ^{[3] [5]}

In 2010 she wrote an open letter to Rowan Williams, then the Archbishop of Canterbury, asking him to ordain women as bishops. ^[4]

She has contributed to two anthologies of women rabbis' essays and liturgies – Hear our Voice and Taking up the Timbrel. ^[3] She is also the only woman whose sermon has been included in Rabbi Professor Marc Saperstein's Jewish Preaching in Times of War. ^[6]

She has two children, Gabrielle and Benedict. ^[6]

• Profile at Liberal Judaism website