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''''Stacy Offner''' is an openly lesbian American rabbi.<ref name="Like Bread">Alpert, R.T., [http://books.google.com/books?id=wWqDztbNgpYC&pg=PA172&lpg=PA172&dq=shir+tikvah+reform+lesbian&source=bl&ots=q64zIwLxXb&sig=zR8FaLkbprWNbXnDY1PD_LQt2XY&hl=en&ei=eIW1TtHHEaKc2AWIhrzMDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&sqi=2&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=shir%20tikvah%20reform%20lesbian&f=false Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition], Columbia University Press, 1998.</ref><ref name="URJ">[http://urj.org/about/union/pr/2008/rabbi_offner/ Rabbi Offner], Union for Reform Judaism website. Retrieved 2011-11-05.</ref> She was the first openly lesbian rabbi in a traditional congregation, as well as the first openly lesbian rabbi hired by a mainstream Jewish congregation. She would rise through the congregation becoming the first female rabbi in Minnesota as well as the first rabbi elected chaplain of the Minnesota Senate, the first female vice president of the [[Union for Reform Judaism]] and the first woman to serve on the [U.S.] national rabbinical pension board.<ref name="Like Bread" /><ref name="URJ" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/19913134.html?source=error|title=Offner continues her trailblazing ways|publisher=|accessdate=29 October 2014}}</ref> ==Biography== She graduated Magna Cum Laude from [[Kenyon College]] and earned an M.A. in Hebrew Literature from [[Hebrew Union College]] in New York. <ref name="adathemanuel.com">http://www.adathemanuel.com/aboutus/staff/</ref> <ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=http://www.womenspress.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=3074|title=Rumor has it ... - Minnesota Women's Press - St. Paul, MN|publisher=|accessdate=29 October 2014}}</ref> She also has an honorary degree from Hebrew Union College, where she was ordained in 1984. <ref name="adathemanuel.com"/> That year she became the first female rabbi in Minnesota.<ref name="shirtikvah.net">http://www.shirtikvah.net/Rabbis</ref><ref name="URJ" /><ref name="auto"/> However, she was fired from her job as associate rabbi when she came out as a lesbian in 1987. <ref name="Like Bread" /><ref name="auto"/> She left with some of her congregants and in 1988 they founded [[Shir Tikvah Congregation|Shir Tikvah]], a Reform congregation in Minneapolis where she was the first rabbi. <ref name="auto"/><ref name="URJ" /><ref>http://www.shirtikvah.net/AboutUsIntro</ref><ref name="shirtikvah.net"/> Thus in 1988, she became the first openly lesbian rabbi hired by a mainstream Jewish congregation (Shir Tikvah). <ref>Dana Evan Kaplan [http://books.google.com/books?id=qQoaBa7D-9oC&pg=PA255 Contemporary American Judaism: transformation and renewal] Columbia University Press, 2009 ISBN 0231137281, p. 255</ref><ref>[http://www.shirtikvah.net/Default.aspx?pageId=675181 Our Roots]. Shir Tikvah. Retrieved on 2010-11-30.</ref> In 2008, Stacy Offner became the first female vice president of the [[Union for Reform Judaism]], a position she held for two years.<ref name="URJ" /><ref>http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:61PH_PniCE4J:www.shirtikvah.net/Resources/Documents/JuneJuly2011.pdf+shir+tikvah+reform+stacy+offner&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESh6kO2y1n8CIBAb5Er8L9CThafJGLIhwVxHJ30rfCLctfXeR-AlmjXgu3YNvoHBfQ-F79uF1AhYkoS6VcDetihCtpT60YVeH6I1YEMEBtO_kHwU1o6lhwDVzjqfpOGN0-S5Uu19&sig=AHIEtbS_hmcfzDmU-SNv7trkxyagXTME5A</ref> She later served as a rabbi at Adath Emanu-El in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. <ref name="adathemanuel.com"/> On July 11, 2012, she became the rabbi of [[Temple Beth Tikvah]] in Madison, Connecticut. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.templebethtikvahct.org/rabbi_offner.htm|title=Rabbi Offner|work=templebethtikvahct.org}}</ref> ==Publications== Her writing has been featured in the journal of the [[Central Conference of American Rabbis]] (CCAR Journal). <ref>{{cite web|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=1PoQAQAAIAAJ&q=%22stacy+offner%22&dq=%22stacy+offner%22&hl=en&ei=RJS1Tr3xGMrt0gGDg-XRBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA|title=CCAR Journal|publisher=|accessdate=29 October 2014}}</ref> {{DEFAULTSORT:Offner, Stacy}} Her papers were acquired by the [[Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest]], and they are available at the Upper Midwest Jewish Archives in Andersen Library at the University of Minnesota. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jhsum.org/?s=%22stacy+offner%22|title=Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest|publisher=|accessdate=29 October 2014}}</ref> <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.startribune.com/templates/Print_This_Story?sid=36749224|title=All is calm with this holiday meditation podcast|publisher=|accessdate=29 October 2014}}</ref> == References == {{Reflist}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Offner, Stacy}} [[Category:Articles created via the Article Wizard]] [[Category:American Reform rabbis]] [[Category:American rabbis]] [[Category:Women rabbis]] [[Category:LGBT clergy in Judaism]] [[Category:LGBT Jews]] [[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Kenyon College alumni]] [[Category:Hebrew Union College alumni]]'