Article: FIRST WOMAN RABBI IN ISRAEL ORDAINED BY REFORM MOVEMENT

Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
07-30-1992
FIRST WOMAN RABBI IN ISRAEL ORDAINED BY REFORM MOVEMENT.

NEW YORK, July 29 (JTA)--The first woman ever to become a rabbi in Israel was ordained last week in Jerusalem.

The ordination of Naamah Kelman, 37, was a historic step and brings to 11 the number of Reform rabbis ordained in Israel.

Kelman is the most recently ordained member of an illustrious family which has produced rabbinic leadership for 12 generations.

Her late father, Rabbi Wolfe Kelman, was the much beloved executive vice president of the Conservative movement's Rabbinical Assembly for nearly four decades.

Her paternal grandfather was a hasidic leader, and her maternal ...

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