Elisa Klapheck (born 10 December 1962) is the first female rabbi to serve in the Netherlands, although she was born in Germany.[1][2] She was also one of the organizers of Bet Debora Berlin, a conference of European women rabbis, cantors, scholars, and rabbinically-educated Jews in Berlin in 1999.[3] 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.[4] 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" 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.[5][6]
She was profiled in the book Turning the Kaleidoscope: Perspectives on European Jewry.[7] There is also an entry on her in Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia.[8] In 2010, she was featured in the documentary Kol Ishah: The Rabbi is a Woman, directed by Hannah Heer. [9]
^Avrum Ehrlich, M. (2009). Encyclopedia of the Jewish diaspora: origins, experiences, and culture - Mark Avrum Ehrlich - Google Books. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781851098736. Retrieved 2012-03-03.
^Lustig, Sandra; Leveson, Ian (2008-04-15). Turning the Kaleidoscope: Perspectives on European Jewry - S. H. Lustig, Ian Leveson - Google Books. Berghahn Books. ISBN 9781845455354. Retrieved 2012-03-03.
^Lustig, Sandra; Leveson, Ian (2008-04-15). Turning the Kaleidoscope: Perspectives on European Jewry - S. H. Lustig, Ian Leveson - Google Books. Berghahn Books. ISBN 9781845455354. Retrieved 2012-03-03.
^"Fräulein Rabbiner Jonas: The Story of the First Woman Rabbi". Wiley. Retrieved 2012-03-03.
^Lustig, Sandra; Leveson, Ian (2008-04-15). Turning the Kaleidoscope: Perspectives on European Jewry - S. H. Lustig, Ian Leveson - Google Books. Berghahn Books. ISBN 9781845455354. Retrieved 2012-03-03.
ElisaKlapheck (born 10 December 1962) is the first female rabbi to serve in the Netherlands, although she was born in Germany. She was also one of the...
Ederberg and ElisaKlapheck were ordained in Israel and the US, later leading egalitarian congregations in Berlin and Frankfurt. Klapheck is the author...
Chinsky, born in France, became Belgium's first female rabbi. 2005: ElisaKlapheck, born in Germany, became the first female rabbi in the Netherlands....
in the United Kingdom. The rabbi for the community was German-born ElisaKlapheck, the first female rabbi of the Netherlands. It is now Tamarah Benima...
from the Netherlands to be ordained as a rabbi, and German-born Rabbi ElisaKlapheck who is the first woman rabbi to serve in the Netherlands. Early news...
people regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation and disability. ElisaKlapheck, born in Germany, became the first female rabbi in the Netherlands....
Archived from the original on 15 June 2012. Retrieved 21 January 2012. Klapheck, Elisa. "Regina Jonas 1902–1944". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 3 April...
from the original on 27 September 2010. Retrieved 3 September 2013. Klapheck, Elisa. "Regina Jonas". The Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women. Jewish...
Zweiter SPD-Mann lässt Mandat ruhen", Die Welt, retrieved 3 April 2021 Klapheck, Elisa (1989). "Flüchtlinge, oft nur ein Mittel zum Zweck". Die Tageszeitung:...
Sussex by Mendelsohn and Chermayeff". Retrieved September 22, 2010. Klapheck, Elisa (1999). "Regina Jonas 1902–1944". The Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of...