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Susan Schnur (born April 21, 1951) is an American rabbi, psychologist, writer and editor. She has served as editor of Lilith since 1995.
Schnur was ordained as a rabbi by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 1982, making her among the first 12 female Reconstructionist rabbis and among the first 61 female rabbis altogether in the world. She has described herself as a "recovering rabbi," and views Lilith as her "paper pulpit" from which she preaches Jewish feminism. Through Lilith, she has said, she and her co-editors "helped to transform Judaism into something beautiful and plausible for thousands of Jewish women."
After becoming a rabbi, Schnur later became a clinical psychologist.
Schnur has been widely noted for her writings on forgiveness, which show how gender matters in discussions of forgiveness and which break down rigid distinctions between forgiving and not forgiving. Schnur has written for many publications, and formerly wrote a weekly column for the New York Times.
