The first Israeli woman to be ordained a rabbi is now also the first to head a conservative seminary. Einat Ramon, 47, a graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary’s rabbinical school, was appointed dean of the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary in Israel.
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