Sylvia Rothschild (born 21 November 1957) is a British Reform rabbi.
[3] Sylvia, her brother Walter (who is also a rabbi) and her sister Joyce[2] grew up as active members of Bradford Reform Synagogue, the third oldest Reform synagogue in England.
After completing a psychology degree at Manchester University she worked for a mental health charity in a therapeutic community, and for a London borough in adult psychiatric care.
[6][7] She is a member of the Steering Team of Tzelem,[8] a cross-communal clerical activist organisation campaigning on broad social issues such as the UK government's response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis.
Rothschild has written extensively on ethical issues, as well as on prayer and on new liturgies.