Ellen Weinberg Dreyfus

Ellen Weinberg Dreyfus is an American rabbi. She is a founder and former president of the Women's Rabbinic Network.

Career She was ordained in 1979 at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in New York, and is to her knowledge the first woman to be ordained as a rabbi while pregnant.

In 1983, she moved back to Illinois, becoming the first female rabbi in that state.

In 2009, she was installed as the second female president of Reform Judaism's Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) in Jerusalem, making her the first female leader of a major rabbinic organization to begin her tenure in Israel.

Also in 2009, she was also inducted onto the Board of Governors of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.

Honors In 2004, the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion awarded her an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree.

Personal life She is married and has three children.