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1376: 1296: 33: 1285: 1363: 1316: 1306: 282:"I didn't go through what I think a lot of people going through, which is worry what would happen when they told their parents they weren't straight. ... I'm very accustomed to being in between spaces: I am a convert to Judaism, I am a mixed-race individual, and I date people regardless of what their gender is. I think I missed out on a lot of the angst to do with it." 275:, a United States citizen and the first female rabbi to serve in the United States Navy, was not employed by a congregation. Rabbi Mann and Rabbi Zahavit Shelev were the first British Jewish women to be ordained as rabbis in the Masorti movement. As a someone who identifies as mixed race, Rabbi Mann was also the Masorti movement's first rabbi of colour. 207:
Rabbi Mann was born in Hertfordshire, England, to non-Jewish parents. Her mother is English and her father is Indian, her paternal grandparents are Muslim and Sikh. She began to take an interest in Judaism after Jewish ancestry was mentioned at a relative's funeral. Mann converted to Judaism at the
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Rabbi Mann is currently employed by New London Synagogue, the same synagogue through which she converted to Judaism and the founding synagogue of the Masorti movement in the UK in 1985. She also supports NOAM, the Masorti UK youth movement, and serves as rabbi to Hatch End Masorti Synagogue on a
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forbids the use of technology on Shabbat and festivals. Mann argued, relying on previous rulings on abortion, that the emotional distress caused by isolation on Shabbat and festivals due to social distancing requirements, permitted leniency even around biblical laws.
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that regards the authority of Jewish law and tradition as emanating primarily from the assent of the people and the community through the generations, more than from divine
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Rabbi Mann is also the first Masorti rabbi to identify as queer. Speaking at an international panel session of LGBT+ Masorti/Conservative rabbis, Rabbi Mann commented,
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At the time of her entering rabbinic school, the Masorti movement in the UK was not egalitarian and the only female Masorti/Conservative rabbi, Rabbi
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for the introduction of "set and forget" passive livestreaming of services on behalf of the Masorti movement in the UK. Traditional
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under Rabbi Jeremy Gordon. She obtained her undergraduate degree in Theology at Heythrop College, University of London.
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It wasn't rational, it was love for Judaism that made me convert and become a rabbi
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supervisor, for two years. Rabbi Mann was ordained in 2019 by Rabbi
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A Thought on the HHDays: Technology and Emotional Distress
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rabbi in a traditional Jewish denomination in Europe.
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It therefore views Jewish law, or 1538:Alumni of University College London 1315: 13: 217:Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies 172:Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies 14: 1609: 1533:21st-century English LGBTQ people 1372:in the United Kingdom   1245:Orthodox Jewish schools for women 394: 1593:English people of Indian descent 1588:Converts to Conservative Judaism 1374: 1361: 1314: 1304: 1295: 1294: 1283: 1172:League of Jewish Women (Germany) 294:, Mann co-authored the halachic 31: 362:, Panel debate, 1st March 2021. 231:. She also worked for AJU as a 1182:Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz 568:World Congress of Jewish Women 558:1907 New York City Rent Strike 548:1904 New York City Rent Strike 377: 365: 1: 306: 1466:Kol Nefesh Masorti Synagogue 202: 7: 1528:21st-century English rabbis 10: 1614: 1548:British Jewish theologians 1476:New North London Synagogue 221:American Jewish University 195:. 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Hertfordshire
Judaism
Conservative Judaism
Rabbi
Louis Jacobs
New London Synagogue
Semikhah
Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies
New London Synagogue
Masorti Judaism
queer
New London Synagogue
Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies
American Jewish University
Los Angeles
Conservative Judaism
mashgiach
kashrut
Bradley Shavit Artson
North America
Jewish religious movement
revelation
halakha
Masorti Olami
Daniella Kolodny
COVID-19 pandemic
teshuvah
Jewish law

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