Elizabeth Tikvah Sarah

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Elizabeth Tikvah Sarah (also known as Rabbi Elli Sarah) is a British rabbi and author.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/sep/27/judaism.religion |title=Comment is free: Face to Faith |author=Sarah, Rabbi Elizabeth Tikvah |work=The Guardian |date=27 September 2008 |access-date=13 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141104015842/http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/sep/27/judaism.religion |archive-date=4 November 2014 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://www.liberaljudaism.org/communities-rabbis/rabbis/176-elizabeth-tikvah-sarah.html |title=Rabbi Elizabeth Tikvah Sarah |publisher=Liberal Judaism (UK) |access-date=13 April 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150327020049/http://www.liberaljudaism.org/communities-rabbis/rabbis/176-elizabeth-tikvah-sarah.html |archive-date=27 March 2015 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.thejc.com/judaism/judaism-features/65132/why-trouble-should-be-a-rabbis-middle-name |title=Why trouble should be a rabbi's middle name |work=The Jewish Chronicle |author=Rocker, Simon |date=15 March 2012 |access-date=13 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141103201548/http://www.thejc.com/judaism/judaism-features/65132/why-trouble-should-be-a-rabbis-middle-name |archive-date=3 November 2014 |url-status=live }}

Sarah graduated from the London School of Economics in 1977 and was ordained in 1989.{{cite news |url=http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-faith-column/2008/04/woman-rabbi-female-britain |title=Being one of the first British female rabbis |author=Sarah, Rabbi Elizabeth Tikvah |work=New Statesman |date=1 April 2008 |access-date=20 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180926085855/https://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-faith-column/2008/04/woman-rabbi-female-britain |archive-date=26 September 2018 |url-status=live }} Sarah (who took her middle name as her surname) and Rabbi Sheila Shulman were the first openly lesbian graduates of the Leo Baeck College. Sarah was also one of the first ten female rabbis ordained in Britain.{{cite web |url=http://www.thejc.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-features/82835/the-power-50-celebrating-influential-women |title=The Power 50 – Celebrating Influential |work=The Jewish Chronicle |date=20 September 2012 |access-date=13 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150912042954/http://www.thejc.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-features/82835/the-power-50-celebrating-influential-women |archive-date=12 September 2015 |url-status=live }} Sarah worked as a full-time congregational rabbi for Buckhurst Hill Reform Synagogue, 1989–94, as Director of Programmes for the Reform Synagogues of Great Britain and Deputy Director of the Sternberg Centre, 1994–97, and as a freelance rabbi, including a part-time congregational appointment for the Leicester Progressive Jewish Congregation, 1998–2000.{{cite web |url=http://www.bhps-online.org/our-rabbi/ |title=Our Rabbi |date=9 October 2013 |publisher=Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue |access-date=13 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150406234013/http://www.bhps-online.org/our-rabbi/ |archive-date=6 April 2015 |url-status=live }}

Sarah has edited five books, written the book Trouble-Making Judaism, and contributed to several journals and anthologies, including writing Chapter 5, "Being a Lesbian Rabbi", in Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation, by Rebecca Alpert, Sue Levi Elwell and Shirley Idelson (Rutgers University Press, 2001).{{cite journal | url=http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/sho/summary/v023/23.3adler.html | title=Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation (review) | author=Adler, Rachel | journal=Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies | date=Spring 2005 | volume=3 | issue=23 | pages=209–212 | doi=10.1353/sho.2005.0084 | s2cid=145367622 | access-date=13 April 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304214257/http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/sho/summary/v023/23.3adler.html | archive-date=4 March 2016 | url-status=live | url-access=subscription }}{{cite web |url=http://www.rabbiellisarah.com/book |title=About Trouble-Making Judaism |publisher=Rabbiellisarah.com |author=Sarah, Elizabeth Tikvah |date=9 April 2011 |access-date=13 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150413161701/http://www.rabbiellisarah.com/book/ |archive-date=13 April 2015 |url-status=live }}