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3 days ago · Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor (1817–1896), Russian posek and Talmudist, rabbi of Baresa, Nishvez, Novohrodo, Chief Rabbi of Kovno. Hayyim Tyrer (1740–1817), Hasidic kabbalist. Simcha Zissel Ziv (1824–1898), the Elder of Kelm, one of the early leaders of the Musar movement, founder and director of the Kelm Talmud Torah.
May 2, 2024 · Alysa Stanton (born August 2, 1963, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.) is an American rabbi who on June 6, 2009, became the first female African American to be so ordained.Though the Reform and Conservative movements in Judaism had begun ordaining women rabbis in the 1970s and ’80s, Stanton’s ordination drew national attention to the growing number of African Americans converting to Judaism.
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May 2, 2024 · Sally J. Priesand (born June 27, 1946, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.) is an American rabbi who on June 3, 1972, became the first woman in the United States to be so ordained. Priesand, who grew up in a Jewish family in Cleveland, as a teenager aspired to become a rabbi. She earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Cincinnati in 1968 and won ...
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4 days ago · Rabbi Alysa Stanton. Photo courtesy of Rabbi Stanton. Rabbi Alysa Stanton has broken ground modeling for a new generation of Jews the many possibilities of what a rabbi can be. Born into a Pentecostal family in Cleveland, Stanton moved with her family to Denver when she was eleven. There she earned an undergraduate degree in psychology and a ...
5 days ago · UK’s first female pulpit rabbi confident of change in Orthodox world. A woman about to graduate from Yeshivat Maharat in New York, Miriam Lorie, is poised to become Rabbi Lorie next month, one of the first group of Orthodox women to lead a community in the UK. Ms Lorie says she has chosen to be known as “rabbi” rather than “rabba ...
6 days ago · The women were ordained by the municipal chief rabbi of Efrat, Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, after completing Midreshet Lindenbaum women's college's five-year ordination course in advanced studies in Jewish law, as well as passing examinations equivalent to the rabbinate's requirement for men.
2 days ago · Rabbi Michelle Dardashti is the first non-Orthodox Iranian rabbi in the United States. She comes from a complex, global Jewish background: her father is a traditional Iranian hazzan (cantor), while her mother is a secular American Jew and her husband is an Australian Jew. She grew up in Los Angeles, Baltimore, and New York and has also lived in ...
