RABBI LISA J. GRUSHCOW, D.Phil.
Associate Rabbi

Rabbi Lisa Grushcow was ordained in 2003 by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. While in rabbinical school, Rabbi Grushcow was a Wexner Graduate Fellow, and received numerous awards in homiletics, Rabbinics, liturgy, philosophy, and other areas. She studied in Oxford for three years as a Rhodes Scholar, completing a Master’s degree in Judaism and Christianity in the Greco-Roman World, and a Doctorate in Rabbinics. While there, she was active in interfaith dialogue, feminist theology, and European liberal Judaism. Her undergraduate degree is from McGill University in Montreal.

Rabbi Grushcow is the author of Writing the Wayward Wife: Rabbinic Interpretations of Sotah (Brill 2005), a study of rabbinic interpretations of sotah, the case in which a man suspects his wife of adultery (Numbers 5:11-31). Rabbi Grushcow focuses on the questions the ancient rabbis asked in their own times: questions of due process and divine intervention, certainty and doubt, tradition and change.

As Associate Rabbi of Rodeph Sholom, her passion is for teaching Jewish learning and life to all ages.