Rabbi Lynn Gottleib, Eim haDerekh

Rabbi Lynn Gottleib, Eim haDerekh is one of the first women to become a rabbi in Jewish history, is a pioneer Jewish feminist, peace activist, writer, visual artist, ceremonialist, community organizer and master storyteller. Lynn has served as a congregational rabbi since the fall of 1973, and co-founded Nahalat Shalom Congregation in ABQ, NM. Since 1964, Lynn has engaged in multifaith, intergenerational and multicultural organizing around issues of economic, racial, indigenous and gender justice, as well as Palestine solidarity. She is a Fellow of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, co-founder of The Community of Living Traditions at Stony Point Center, NY, and co-founder of the Muslim-Jewish Peacewalk which brought tens of thousands of people together in 18 cities through the US and Canada. Currently Lynn serves as Director of Youth and Family Programming at Chochmat Halev, and as director of Shomeret Shalom Global Congregation. She is author of Peace Primer II, She Who Dwells Within: A Feminist Vision of Renewed Judaism, and World Beyond Borders Passover Haggadah which was reviewed as the best haggadah of 2017. She serves as chair of the board of Interfaith Movement of Human Integrity and is on the Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinic Council. Mother to Nataniel, Lynn is very funny.