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Gay and Once Divorced, a Canadian Rabbi Broadens Judaism鈥檚 Tent
Published: 15 July 2019
When聽Rabbi Lisa Grushcow, the first openly gay rabbi of a large synagogue in Canada, was preparing to begin rabbinical school, she faced a daunting choice: love or serving God.
Her world was suddenly turned upside down in the late 1990s while she was studying religion at Oxford on a聽Rhodes scholarship,聽and fell in love with a woman she met at a conference. This posed a problem: The Conservative rabbinical school she planned to attend did not ordain openly gay rabbis.