Kesher Talk

Jews in odd places: Scotland: A synagogue in Scotland's largest city, Glasgow, has appointed Scotland's first female rabbi in the same month as the election of the first female moderator-designate to the Church of Scotland's general assembly. Rabbi Nancy Morris took up her post at the Glasgow New Synagogue, in Newton Mearns, on October 15.

Britain's "reform" and "liberal" movements have around 20 women rabbis in the UK. Glasgow's is the only "reform" synagogue in Scotland, where there are no "liberal" synagogues.

And that goes a long way to explain why my Yom Kippur in Edinburgh years ago was so Orthodox...

Rabbi Morris, 41, who is from Montreal in Canada, had previously been working with the Har Tikvah community in Brampton, Ontario, her first post since she graduated as rabbi from Leo Baeck College, London, in 2002.

David Goodman, chairman of the synagogue, felt her appointment would herald a new era for eighty-year-old establishment.

posted by William @ 11/19/2003 08:54:02 AM