Kinneret Shiryon

Kinneret Shiryon is the first female rabbi in Israel. [1] She is the spiritual leader of Kehillat Yozma, Modi'in's Reform congregation, which she helped establish in 1997; Kehillat Yozma is the first non-Orthodox congregation in Israel to receive state funding for its synagogue building. [1][2][3] She was also chairwoman of the Council of Progressive Rabbis in Israel (MARAM), [1] as well as one of the rabbis who contributed to the book Three Times Chai: 54 Rabbis Tell Their Favorite Stories. She contributed the story "Challahs in the Ark." [4] She directed the University Student Outreach programs at UAHC's International Department of Education in Jerusalem. [3]

Kinneret Shiryon was born in the United States in 1955, and was ordained at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York in 1981. [5] She has four children (Ayelet, Erez, Inbar, and Amichai) and her husband's name is Baruch. [5][3]


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 http://templesinaidc.org/Events/index.cfm?id=5822&pge_prg_id=8406&pge_id=0&date=10/21/2009
  2. ↑ http://huc.edu/newspubs/pressroom/07/7/aliya.shtml
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Kehillat Yozma - Reform Congregation of Modiin Israel". Yozma.org.il. Retrieved 2013-06-21.
  4. ↑ "Three Times Chai: 54 Rabbis Tell Their Favorite Stories - Laney Katz Becker - Google Books". Books.google.com. Retrieved 2013-06-21.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "HUC-JIR: Press Room - Certificates for Graduates of the Life Texts - Talmudic Bibliotherapy Program Presented at HUC-JIR/Jerusalem Ordination and Academic Convocation". Huc.edu. 2010-10-29. Retrieved 2013-06-21.