'''Elisa Klapheck''' (born 10 December 1962) is the first female [[rabbi]] to serve in the [[Netherlands]], although she was born in [[Germany]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/author/klapheck-elisa |title=Elisa Klapheck | Jewish Women's Archive |publisher=Jwa.org |date= |accessdate=2012-03-03}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NoPZu79hqaEC&q=%22elisa+klapheck%22&pg=PA891 |title=Encyclopedia of the Jewish diaspora: origins, experiences, and culture - Mark Avrum Ehrlich - Google Books |isbn=9781851098736 |accessdate=2012-03-03|last1=Avrum Ehrlich |first1=M. |year=2009 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic }}</ref> She was also one of the organizers of {{ill|Bet Debora|de}} Berlin, a conference of [[Europe]]an women rabbis, [[Hazzan|cantors]], [[scholar]]s, and rabbinically-educated Jews in [[Berlin]] in 1999.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/author/klapheck-elisa |title=Elisa Klapheck | Jewish Women's Archive |publisher=Jwa.org |date= |accessdate=2012-03-03}}</ref> She was ordained in 2004 by the Aleph Rabbinic Program, and in 2005 she became the rabbi of "[[Beit Ha'Chidush]]" (House of Renewal) in [[Amsterdam]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tifwW0Hld7oC&q=%22elisa+klapheck%22&pg=PA225 |title=Turning the Kaleidoscope: Perspectives on European Jewry - S. H. Lustig, Ian Leveson - Google Books |date=2008-04-15 |isbn=9781845455354 |accessdate=2012-03-03|last1=Lustig |first1=Sandra |last2=Leveson |first2=Ian |publisher=Berghahn Books }}</ref> In 2009 she returned to Germany and has since been the rabbi of the "Egalitarian Minyan" in the Jewish Community of [[Frankfurt am Main]]. She is a member of the General Conference of Rabbis of Germany (ARK) and an associate member of the Rabbinic Board of "[[Liberal Judaism (United Kingdom)|Liberal Judaism]]" in [[London]].
Klapheck is also the author of ''Fraulein Rabbiner Jonas: The Story of the First Woman Rabbi'', as well as ''How I Became a Rabbi, Jewish Challenges Here and Now.'' <ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tifwW0Hld7oC&q=%22how+i+became+a+woman+rabbi%22+%22elisa+klapheck%22&pg=PA225 |title=Turning the Kaleidoscope: Perspectives on European Jewry - S. H. Lustig, Ian Leveson - Google Books |date=2008-04-15 |isbn=9781845455354 |accessdate=2012-03-03|last1=Lustig |first1=Sandra |last2=Leveson |first2=Ian |publisher=Berghahn Books }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0787969877.html |title=Fräulein Rabbiner Jonas: The Story of the First Woman Rabbi |publisher=Wiley |date= |accessdate=2012-03-03}}</ref>
She was profiled in the book ''Turning the Kaleidoscope: Perspectives on European Jewry.'' <ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tifwW0Hld7oC&q=%22how+i+became+a+woman+rabbi%22+%22elisa+klapheck%22&pg=PA225 |title=Turning the Kaleidoscope: Perspectives on European Jewry - S. H. Lustig, Ian Leveson - Google Books |date=2008-04-15 |isbn=9781845455354 |accessdate=2012-03-03|last1=Lustig |first1=Sandra |last2=Leveson |first2=Ian |publisher=Berghahn Books }}</ref> There is also an entry on her in ''Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia.'' <ref>{{cite web|url=http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/author/klapheck-elisa |title=Elisa Klapheck | Jewish Women's Archive |publisher=Jwa.org |date= |accessdate=2012-03-03}}</ref> In 2010, she was featured in the documentary ''Kol Ishah: The Rabbi is a Woman'', directed by Hannah Heer. <ref>{{cite web|url=https://riverlightspictures.com/kolishah/rabbis.html |title=The Rabbi is a Woman" | a documentary film by Hannah Heer |publisher="Kol Ishah |date= |accessdate=2012-03-03}}</ref>
==Publications== * ''Fräulein Rabbiner Jonas : the story of the first woman rabbi'', 2004 * ''Margarete Susman und ihr jüdischer Beitrag zur politischen Philosophie'', 2013 * ''Regina Jonas : die weltweit erste Rabbinerin'', 2003 * ''Wie ich Rabbinerin wurde'', 2012 * ''So bin ich Rabbinerin geworden jüdische Herausforderungen hier und jetzt'', 2005 * ''Säkulares Judentum aus religiöser Quelle'', 2015
==See also== * [[Regina Jonas]] *[[Timeline of women rabbis]]
== References == {{Reflist}} {{Women rabbis}} {{Authority control}}
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