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Opinion | I was America’s first female rabbi. I am brokenhearted to learn how the man who ordained me treated so many other women.

JL;DR SUMMARY Rabbi Sally J. Priesand, the first woman to be ordained as a rabbi in the U.S., expresses her heartbreak over a report revealing gender bias and misconduct at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR). A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish EducationReform JudaismHebrew Union CollegeWomen's RightsOrdinationRabbinic LeadershipSexual HarassmentGender BiasSally J. PriesandAlfred Gottschalk

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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
"Rabbi Sally J. Priesand is ordained by Fred on June 3, 1972, at the Plum Street Temple in Cincinnati by HUC-JIRs then-president, Rabbi Dr. Alfred Gottschalk Courtesy of Jewish Womens Archive via HUC-JIR"

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