In 1972, Sally Priesand became the first woman ordained as a rabbi by a Jewish seminary.
Most Reform and Conservative Jews today are used to seeing a woman leading services. The class that graduated this month from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the Reform seminary, included two more female rabbis than male rabbis.
But in 1963, when Priesand was still in high school and decided she wanted to become a rabbi, HUC-JIR didn’t know what to make of her letter.
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