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Reform student on track to become
the first black female rabbi
Janine Spang
Alysa Stanton, a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, is preparing to be ordained as the first African-American female rabbi in May, 2009.
Alysa Stanton-Ogulnick isn't particularly interested in being a standard-bearer -- it just kind of happened, like so much else in the Reform rabbinical student's life.

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