Lynn Gottlieb, born April 12, 1949, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, is an American rabbi in the Jewish Renewal movement. Gottlieb entered pulpit life at the age of 23 in 1973, as leader of Temple Beth Or of the Deaf in New York City. In 1981, she became the first woman ordained as a rabbi in the Jewish Renewal movement; she was ordained by rabbis Zalman Schachter, Everett Gendler, and Shlomo Carlebach. In 2007 she was selected as one of The Other Top 50 Rabbis by Letty Cottin Pogrebin. She co-founded congregation Nahalat Shalom in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as well as founding the feminist theater troupe Bat Kol.
Gottlieb led a Fellowship of Reconciliation delegation to Iran in 2008, thus becoming the first female rabbi to visit Iran in a public delegation since the 1979 Iranian revolution.
Gottlieb is the author of the book She Who Dwells Within: A Feminist Vision of a Renewed Judaism (1995).
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