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Rabbi Sally Priesand’s ordination as the first woman rabbi in America opened the way across all denominations and around the globe, setting in motion the first steps toward inclusion, diversity, equity, and empowerment of new cohorts redefining Jewish leadership over the past 50 years.
“Holy Sparks” features the works of 24 leading contemporary Jewish women artists evoking the identities and consecrated paths of 24 women rabbis who were “firsts” in their time.
This art exhibition is a collaboration between HUC-JIR’s Dr. Bernard Heller and Skirball Museums and The Braid, and a culmination of The Braid’s documentation of 200 pioneering women rabbis’ stories, shared online in partnership with the Jewish Women’s Archive.
1972 | RABBI SALLY PRIESAND | JOAN ROTH
1974 | RABBI SANDY EISENBERG SASSO | DEBRA BAND
1975 | RABBI LAURA GELLER | RUTH WEISBERG
1975 | RABBI JACKIE TABICK | SANDY BLEIFER
1981 | RABBI KINNERET SHIRYON | HEDDY BREUER ABRAMOWITZ
1982 | RABBI AMY R. PERLIN | DEBORAH UGORETZ
1985 | RABBI AMY EILBERG | PAT BERGER
1986 | RABBI JULIE SCHWARTZ | EMILY BOWEN COHEN
1988 | RABBI DENISE L. EGER | DORIT JORDAN DOTAN
1989 | RABBI NAOMI LEVY | JUDY SIROTA ROSENTHAL
1990 | RABBI PAULINE BEBE | TAMAR HIRSCHL
1992 | RABBI NAAMAH KELMAN | ELLEN ALT
1993 | RABBI ANDREA L. WEISS | DEBBIE TEICHOLZ GUEDALIA
1995 | RABBI DIANE COHLER-ESSES | SIONA BENJAMIN
1998 | RABBI NOA KUSHNER | HARRIETE ESTEL BERMAN
1998 | RABBI HARA PERSON | ELIZABETH LANGER
2001 | RABBI ANGELA WARNICK BUCHDAHL | LAURIE GROSS
2001 | RABBI SHARON BROUS | PENNY WOLIN
2002 | RABBI CLAUDIA KREIMAN | MARISA TAKAL
2003 | RABBI GESA S. EDERBERG | YONA VERWER
2007 | RABBI TANYA SEGAL | LINDA SOBERMAN
2009 | RABBA SARA HURWITZ | KATHRYN JACOBI
2012 | RABBI RACHEL ADLER | MARILEE TOLWIN
2013 | RABBI TAMARA COHN ESKENAZI | CAROL HAMOY
“HOLY SPARKS” CELEBRATION CONSORTIUM
Celebrating 50 Years of Women in the Rabbinate with
Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion and The Braid
Abraham Geiger College, Potsdam, Germany
Academy for Jewish Religion, Los Angeles, CA
American Conference of Cantors
Central Conference of American Rabbis, New York, NY
Hadassah Magazine
Hebrew College, Newton Centre, MA
Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism
Israel Religious Action Center
Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, HUC-JIR, Cincinnati, OH
Jewish Art Salon
Jewish Book Council
Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, Silver Spring, MD
The Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, NY
Jewish Women International
Jewish Women’s Archive, Brookline, MA
Leo Baeck College, London, United Kingdom
Lilith Magazine
MARAM: Council of Reform Rabbis in Israel
Moment Magazine
Rabbinical Assembly, New York, NY
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Wyncote, PA
Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, Israel
Union for Reform Judaism
Women of Reform Judaism, New York, NY
Women of the Wall, Jerusalem, Israel
Women’s League for Conservative Judaism
Women’s Rabbinic Network
World Union for Progressive Judaism
Yeshivat Maharat, Riverdale, NY
Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, American Jewish University, Los Angeles, California
This exhibition was developed by The Braid with generous support from Lynne & Phil Himelstein,
Ziering Family Foundation, Gladys and David Layne, and Ronda Spinak
Presented at the Dr. Bernard Heller Museum by the Irma L. and Abram S. Croll Center for
Jewish Learning and Culture with the generous support of George, z”l, and Mildred Weissman
Presented at the Skirball Museum with the support of the Cincinnati Skirball Museum Activities Fund
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