Sybil Sheridan
Sybil Sheridan | |
|---|---|
| Personal life | |
| Born | 27 September 1953 |
| Nationality | British |
| Spouse | Rabbi Jonathan Romain |
| Children | Four |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Judaism |
| Denomination | Reform Judaism (UK) |
| Position | Rabbi |
| Organisation | Rabbi at Newcastle Reform Synagogue; Rabbi at West London Synagogue (2014–20); Chair of the Assembly of Reform Rabbis, Movement for Reform Judaism (UK) (2013–15); Rabbi at Wimbledon and District Synagogue (2003–14) |
| Semikhah | 1981 |
Sybil Ann Sheridan (born 27 September 1953) is a writer and British Reform rabbi. She was chair of the Assembly of Reform Rabbis UK at the Movement for Reform Judaism from 2013 to 2015 and was Rabbi at Wimbledon and District Synagogue in south west London. As of 2020 she is part-time rabbi at Newcastle Reform Synagogue.
Sybil Sheridan has edited two books and contributed to several academic publications. She is a major contributor to interfaith dialogue, both nationally and internationally, and has a particular interest in Jewish-Muslim dialogue and especially between women. She co-chaired the Home Office International Conference for Women in Judaism and Islam.
She has strong links to Israel and to the educational festival Limmud. She has lectured at Leo Baeck College and the Muslim College, London. She is on the International Editorial Advisory Board of Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues published by Indiana University Press. For eight years she was Jewish chaplain at the University of Roehampton.