![]() Alpert's scholarship has also influentially shaped the academic subfield of religion and sports. Alpert has continued to write and speak as a public scholar, queer feminist, and rabbi in a self-consciously progressive tradition her work addresses Reconstructionist approaches to tradition critical antiracism, marriage and sexual ethics, and Zionism and Palestinian solidarity, among many other issues. She was ordained in 1976 as one the first female rabbis and was also among the first group of "out" lesbian and gay rabbis in the Reconstructionist movement, a development that she chronicles in her award-winning book Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition (1997) and coedited volume (with Sue Elwell and Shirley Idelson) Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation (2001). Alpert is a scholar of American religious history and a pathbreaking Reconstructionist rabbi. ![]() Alpert is a professor of religion and an affiliate faculty in the Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies program at Temple University, where she also currently serves as the senior associate dean of Academic Affairs in the College of Liberal Arts. ![]()
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