Lynn Gottlieb, born April 12, 1949, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, is an American rabbi in the Jewish Renewal movement

Jewish Renewal

Jewish Renewal , is a recent movement in Judaism which endeavors to reinvigorate modern Judaism with mystical, Hasidic, musical and meditative practices...

 . Gottlieb entered pulpit life at the age of 23 in 1973, as leader of Temple Beth Or of the Deaf in New York City. In 1981, she became the first woman ordained as a rabbi in the Jewish Renewal movement. She has been selected as one of The Other Top 50 Rabbis by Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Letty Cottin Pogrebin is an American writer and journalist. She graduated from Brandeis University and became a writer and feminist advocate in the early 1970s. In 1971, she was one of the founding editors of Ms...

. She co-founded congregation Nahalat Shalom in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as well as founding the feminist theater troupe Bat Kol.

Gottlieb led a Fellowship of Reconciliation

Fellowship of Reconciliation

The Fellowship of Reconciliation is the name used by a number of religious nonviolent organizations, particularly in English-speaking countries...

delegation to Iran in 2008, thus becoming the first U.S. rabbi and the first female rabbi to visit Iran in a public delegation since the 1979 Iranian revolution.

Gottlieb is the author of the book She Who Dwells Within: A Feminist Vision of a Renewed Judaism.