Rabbi Jackie Tabick | |
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Personal | |
Born | Jacqueline Acker October 8, 1948 |
Religion | Judaism |
Nationality | British |
Spouse |
Rabbi Larry Tabick (
m. 1975) |
Children | Three |
Denomination | Reform Judaism |
Jewish leader | |
Successor | Rabbi Jonathan Romain |
Position | Convenor of the Reform Movement Beit Din |
Organisation | Movement for Reform Judaism |
Began | 2012 |
Ended | 2023 |
Semikhah | Leo Baeck College in 1975 |
Jacqueline Hazel "Jackie" Tabick (born 1948, née Jacqueline Acker) is a British Reform rabbi. She became Britain's first female rabbi in 1975. [1] [2] She retired in 2023 as convenor of the Movement for Reform Judaism's Beit Din, [3] the first woman in the role, [3] [1] and until its closure in 2022 was also Rabbi of West Central Liberal Synagogue in Bloomsbury, central London. [4]
Born in Dublin, Tabick spent most of her early life in England [5] and grew up in the community of South West Essex & Settlement Reform Synagogue. [6] After reading Medieval History for her degree at University College London, she enrolled at the Leo Baeck College where she completed her rabbinical training. [5] She graduated to become Britain's first female rabbi in 1975. [2]
Starting as the assistant rabbi at West London Synagogue under Rabbi Hugo Gryn, [7] she left in 1998 to become the rabbi of North West Surrey Synagogue. [2] She held this position until July 2013, [8] [9] combining it with her role, since 2012, as the first female convenor of the Reform Movement's Beit Din. [1] She has previously been the Movement's vice-president and is patron of the Jewish Council for Racial Equality (JCORE). [10] She currently leads services at London's West Central Liberal Synagogue. [4]
Tabick has played a leading role in interfaith initiatives. [11] She is an executive of The Inter Faith Network. [2] She was, for many years, chair of the World Congress of Faiths and is now co-president. [12]
She has been married to Rabbi Larry Tabick since 1975 and was the first female rabbi to marry a rabbi. [13] Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1947, [14] Larry came to England to study at the Leo Baeck College in the early 1970s and retired as rabbi of Shir Hayim in Hampstead in 2017. [14] He and Jackie have three children, [2] [15] one of whom, Roni Tabick, is rabbi of the Masorti synagogue New Stoke Newington Shul in Stoke Newington, London. [3] [16]
The 2022 art exhibit “Holy Sparks”, shown among other places at the Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, featured art about twenty-four female rabbis who were firsts in some way; [17] [18] Sandy Bleifer created the artwork about Tabick that was in that exhibit. [19]
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