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Celebrate with us as we welcome Rabbi Sally Priesand, the first woman ordained as a Rabbi in North America 50 years ago this spring. 

In the 1960s, a debate gripped the American Jewish community. The question: whether women could become rabbis. A decade later, the Reform movement ordained the first woman rabbi in the United States: Sally Priesand.  Sally was just 17 when she first requested an application to the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, the Reform Movement's flagship seminary. 

Please join us for this Zoom presentation as Rabbi Priesand reflects back on 50 years in the rabbinate. There will be an opportunity for questions and answers.

Rabbi Sally J. Priesand, America’s first female rabbi, was ordained in June, 1972, by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio. From 1981-2006, she served as Rabbi of Monmouth Reform Temple, becoming Rabbi Emerita upon her retirement.

Nationally, she has served on the Executive Board of both the Central Conference of American Rabbis and the Union for Reform Judaism. She also served as a member of the Board of Governors of HUC-JIR, as President of the Rabbinic Alumni Association, and for three years as editor of the CCAR Newsletter. In 2007, she invited her female rabbinic colleagues of all denominations to join her in donating their professional and personal papers to the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati, Ohio, in order to document the history of women in the rabbinate.

Locally, she is President of Interfaith Neighbors, an organization whose primary purpose is to provide rental assistance and support services for the working poor. She is a former member of the Board of the Center for Holocaust, Human Rights and Genocide Education (CHHANGE) at Brookdale Community College, an active supporter of the Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County and works closely with Planned Parenthood on both the local and national level. For more information about Rabbi Sally, click HERE.