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Women rabbis and Torah scholars are individual Jewish women who are recognized for their studies of the Jewish religious tradition and often combine their study with rabbinical ordination. Ordination of women has grown since the 1970s with over 1,200 Jewish women receiving formal ordination (see § Membership by denomination ).
This is a timeline of women rabbis: 1930s. 1935: In Germany, Regina Jonas became the first woman to be ordained as a rabbi. [1] 1970s: 1972: Sally Priesand became America's first female rabbi ordained by a rabbinical seminary, and the second formally ordained female rabbi in Jewish history, after Regina Jonas. [2] [3] [4]
Women in Judaism have affected the course of Judaism over millenia. Their role is reflected in the Hebrew Bible , the Oral Law (the corpus of rabbinic literature), by custom , and by cultural factors.
Sally Priesand, who would later become the first female ordained rabbi in America, was born on June 27, 1946, in Cleveland Ohio, the daughter of Irving Theodore and Rose Elizabeth (Welch) Priesand.
From Drisha in New York City to Midrashat Lindenbaum (Brovenders) in Israel, women’s learning opportunities have led to a new class of learned Orthodox women. Mimi Feigelson, a student of Rabbi Shlomo Carrlebach, was ordained by a panel of three rabbis after her teacher's death.
Women Rabbis: A History of the Struggle for Ordination. While the Reform movement was theoretically in favor of women's ordination as far back as 1922, it was not until 50 years later that the first women was ordained as a rabbi in North America. By Howard Sachar
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May 31, 2022 · Next month it will be 50 years since Sally Priesand was ordained as the nation's first female rabbi. Today, about 1,000 women rabbis have changed the course of American Judaism.
