Rebecca Alpert

Quick Facts

Full Name	Rebecca Alpert
Occupation	Rabbi
Date Of Birth	Apr 12, 1950(1950-04-12)
Age	74
Birthplace	Brooklyn
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Aries

Rebecca Alpert Biography

Rebecca Alpert is one of the most popular and richest Rabbi who was born on April 12, 1950 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Alpert’s research focuses on the Reconstructionist tradition and the role of gays/lesbians in Jewish religious history. She also studies the relationships between Jews and blacks during the period 1930-1950. Oxford University Press published her book, Out of Left Field, Jews and Black Baseball. Her publications and articles have been published in several volumes. The 1998 Lambda Literary Award was given to her book Like Bread on the Seder Plate, Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition by Columbia University Press. She was also the author of “Finding Our Past”: A Lesbian Interpretation of Ruth’s Book. This book was published in Reading Ruth: Contemporary Women Reclaim a Sacred Story. A. Kates and G.T. Reimer (1994).

Alpert is currently Professor in the Temple University Departments of Religion and Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, and Senior Associate Dean of College of Liberal Arts. Her mentors include Marie Dallam (author of Cowboy Christians) and Brett Krutzsch (author of Dying To Be Normal: Gay Martyrs & the Transformation of American Sexual Politics), both published by Oxford University Press. Her faculty website states that her research on religion and sport has been a focus of hers for the past few years. Oxford University Press published Out of Left Field: Jews & Black Baseball in June 2011. Columbia University Press published Religion and Sports: An Introduction and case studies in May 2015. Mercer University Press published an anthology, co-edited by Arthur Remillard, Gods, Games, and Globalization. It was published in 2019.

The experience of praying with Siddur Nashim [the first Jewish prayer book to refer to God using female pronouns and imagery] … transformed my relationship with God. For the first time, I understood what it meant to be made in God’s image. To think of God as a woman like myself, to see Her as both powerful and nurturing, to see Her imaged with a woman’s body, with womb, with breasts – this was an experience of ultimate significance. Was this the relationship that men have had with God for all these millennia? How wonderful to gain access to those feelings and perceptions.

Alpert completed her Ph.D. after which she was ordained as a rabbinic priestess. She worked contractually with several synagogues across the U.S. She was one of the few congregational women rabbis who served in this capacity. In 1986, she came out as a lesbian. She split from Joel Alpert, her husband with whom she had two children: Lynne and Avi. Christie Balka became her partners. She was also a professor of Holocaust Studies at Rutgers University and Dean of Students at RRC from 1987 to 1987. She was then appointed Director of Adult Programs, Director for the Program in Women’s Studies and finally, a faculty member in both the religion and women’s study departments.

Rebecca Alpert Net Worth

Rebecca Alpert is one of the richest Rabbi from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Rebecca Alpert 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Rabbi Rebecca Trachtenberg Alpert, born April 12, 1950, is an American professor of Jewish American religion history. She was also one of the first female congregational rabbis. Her main focus is on sexuality in Judaism. She says her beliefs were changed by Siddur Nashim, a Sabbath prayerbook that refers to God as “She”.

Siddur Nashim was first published by Margaret Wenig and Naomi Janowitz in 1976.

Alongside Katherine Franke, a Columbia Law School professor, Alpert publicly canceled her scheduled appearance at the Equality Forum’s 2012 Global LGBT Summit in Philadelphia to protest Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians, accusing the organizers of the forum of becoming “cheerleaders for Israel.”

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Rebecca Ranked on the list of most popular Rabbi. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Rebecca Alpert celebrates birthday on April 12 of every year.