Lisa Grushcow

Lisa Grushcow is a Canadian rabbi.

Early life She was born in Ottawa, Ontario, and raised in Toronto.

Education and ordination She studied at McGill University before earning a doctorate at Oxford.

Career In 2012, she became the first female senior rabbi at Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom in Westmount, which also made her the first female senior rabbi of any Canadian congregation with more than 1,000 member families. Being a rabbi for that synagogue made her the first openly gay rabbi of a large synagogue in Canada.

In 2014 she edited the Central Conference of American Rabbiss The Sacred Encounter: Jewish Perspectives on Sexuality, meant to communicate Judaism and sexuality to lay readers.