Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb

Transforming Our Stories, Transforming Ourselves: Collective Healing through Ritual and Narrative

(Recorded)

The stories we tell about our histories and where we came from have the power to deeply influence how we understand our communities, ourselves, and the world. Jewish ritual gives us the space to tell our people’s stories in ways that constrict us and bind us in fear, or in ways that expand possibilities and transform us. In this session we will reflect on and gain tools for building anti-Zionist, embodied, justice-seeking Jewish communities through transforming our relationship to history and story.

Lynn Gottlieb (she/her) is one of the first women to become a rabbi in Jewish history. She is a pioneer Jewish feminist, and a writer, visual artist, ceremonialist, community educator, reparationist and master storyteller. Lynn has served as a community rabbi since the fall of 1973.

She currently serves as board chair of Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, an Organizing Team member of Grassroots Reparations Campaign, is on the Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinic Council and Elder’s Advisory Council to Back To Earth. Rabbi Lynn is a practitioner of the torah of nonviolence and is a shomeret shalom. She is author of She Who Dwells Within, A Feminist Vision of Renewed Judaism; Trail Guide to the Torah of Nonviolence; Peace Primer II; and World Beyond Borders Passover Hagaddah. She is very funny. www.rabbilynngottlieb.com