Lisa Grushcow is a Canadian rabbi. She was a Rhodes scholar in the 1990s. ^{[1] [2]} In 2012, she became senior rabbi at Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom in Montreal. ^{[1] [3]} She was born in Ottawa, Ontario, and raised in Toronto, ^[4] and studied at McGill before earning a doctorate at Oxford. ^[1] In 2014 she edited the Central Conference of American Rabbis's The Sacred Encounter: Jewish Perspectives on Sexuality, meant to communicate Judaism and sexuality to lay readers. ^[4]

Bibliography

• Grushcow, Lisa, ed. (March 1, 2014). The Sacred Encounter: Jewish Perspectives on Sexuality. Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) Press. OCLC  869141170.
• Grushcow, Lisa (2018). "A Jewish view of sexuality". In Peter Knobel; Simeon J. Maslin (eds.). Navigating the Journey: The Essential Guide to the Jewish Life Cycle. CCAR Press. OCLC  1111664760.

References

Sources

• Arnold, Janice (March 2, 2012). "Temple's new senior rabbi hopes to 'open doors'". Canadian Jewish News.
• "Talk to me about sex, rabbi – Who knew rabbis could have so many interesting things to say about sex?". Montreal Gazette. May 26, 2014.
• Rukavina, Steve (May 8, 2017). "How personal struggles made Lisa Grushcow a better rabbi". CBC News.
• Bilefsky, Dan (July 12, 2019). "Gay and Once Divorced, a Canadian Rabbi Broadens Judaism's Tent". The New York Times.

Further reading

• Shiller, Romy. "Rabbis 2015: Lisa Grushcow". The Forward.
• Stoll, Ira (July 17, 2019). "New York Times Touts 'Gay and Once Divorced' Rabbi". Algemeiner Journal.

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