Rabbi
Jackie Tabick
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Tabick in 2006 (or earlier)
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Born | Jacqueline Acker (1948-10-08) October 8, 1948 (age 75) |
Religion | Judaism |
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Spouse |
Rabbi Larry Tabick (m. 1975) |
Children | Three |
Denomination | Reform Judaism |
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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 (née Acker; born 1948) 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 SynagogueinBloomsbury, 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 HayiminHampstead 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 ShulinStoke 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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