Rachel Isaacs was the first openly lesbian rabbi ordained by the Conservative movement's Jewish Theological Seminary ("JTS"), which occurred in May 2011.
[2] [3] She transferred to JTS from the Reform movement's Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in her third year of rabbinical school.
[4] She is now the rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel in Waterville, Maine, which is a Conservative synagogue,[2][5] as well as the Dorothy "Bibby" Levine Alfond Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at Colby College.
[1] Rabbi Carter is now openly lesbian, and works at Brooklyn's Park Slope Jewish Center, which Rachel Isaacs interned at.
[1] In 2014, Isaacs was named one of "America's Most Inspiring Rabbis" by the Jewish Daily Forward.