Rabbi Liz leading services at Congregation Beit Tikvah.

Elizabeth Bolton, born in Montreal, Quebec in 1956, is a multi-talented rabbi, cantor, singer, voice teacher and choral conductor. She earned a B.F.A. in Music and Women's Studies from Concordia University. She also studied Voice and Opera at McGill University, the Banff Centre for the Performing Arts in British Columbia and in Austria.

After pursuing a career in classical music in Canada, where her engagements included a gala concert for the Prince and Princess of Wales and other televised performances and interviews, she served as cantor at Temple Emanu-El (Reform) in Toronto, and then relocated to Philadelphia to attend the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.

During her years at RRC, Rabbi Liz served many congregations as visiting cantor and student rabbi, participated in the Seminarians Interacting program of the National Conference of Christians and Jews for three years, and filled rabbinic internships with the Philadelphia Geriatric Center, Hospice of the Delaware Valley, Elderhostels, and the Center for Jewish Learning and Leadership in New York City. She served for three years as cantor of Congregation Beth Am Israel (Conservative) in Penn Valley, Pennsylvania, as student rabbi with Shaarey Shamayim (Reconstructionist) in Madison, Wisconsin, and high holiday rabbi for Congregation Darchei Noam (Reconstructionist) in Toronto, Ontario.

Rabbi Liz has been an active member of the faculty of the RRC, where she has taught hazzanut and singing for the past several years. She was a founder of the Jewish Women's Studies Project (KOLOT), as well as a founding member/director of the RRC student choir (the ApiChorus). She has been featured as a speaker, performer, and instructor at Jewish Reconstructionist Federation conventions and congregations, and has recorded a companion tape to their publication, Shirim Uvrahot: Nashir Unevareh.

In August of 1999, Liz became the first full-time rabbi of Congregation Beit Tikvah in Baltimore, Md., and also created the Music and Liturgy Project for the JRF.