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Amy Eilberg

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Amy Eilberg · Historical & Religious Figures

What

Rabbi Amy Eilberg, ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1985, is notable as the first woman ordained as a rabbi by the Conservative movement.

When

12 October 1954

Biography

Amy Eilberg is recognized among Jewish contributors to Historical & Religious Figures — Rabbi Amy Eilberg, ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1985, is notable as the first woman ordained as a rabbi by the Conservative movement.

How & why

Rabbi Amy Eilberg, ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1985, is notable as the first woman ordained as a rabbi by the Conservative movement. That is how the Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women, the scholarly reference published by the Jewish Women's Archive, opens its entry on her, written by Lila Corwin Berman, and the entry is linked below.

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Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Lila Corwin Berman

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Rabbi Amy Eilberg, ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1985, is notable as the first woman ordained as a rabbi by the Conservative movement.

1954

Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Lila Corwin Berman