Brussels’ French-speaking liberal community celebrated the arrival of Belgium’s first female rabbi. On Sunday, Congregation Beth Hillel also inaugurated its new building, the first in the country that is specifically designed to house a non-Orthodox community, while welcoming its recently appointed rabbi, Paris-born Floriane Chinsky.
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