Alexandra Wright
Alexandra Wright 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]
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.[2][3] She served as Associate Rabbi at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue from 1986 until 1989.[2] She then served as rabbi at Radlett and Bushey Reform Synagogue in Hertfordshire from 1990 until 2003.[2]
She has two children, Gabrielle and Benedict.[4]
In 2010 she wrote an open letter to Rowan Williams, then the Archbishop of Canterbury, asking him to ordain women as bishops.[3]
She has contributed to two anthologies of women rabbis' essays and liturgies – Hear our Voice and Taking up the Timbrel.[2] She is also the only woman whose sermon has been included in Rabbi Professor Marc Saperstein's Jewish Preaching in Times of War.[4]
