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Miss Ray Frank in Stockton's Daily Record newspaper in 1897. (CDNC)
Posted inFrom the Archives

Was Ray Frank of Oakland the first woman rabbi?

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 26, 2025December 26, 2025

We covered Rabbi Angela Buchdahl’s visit to the Bay Area earlier this month. As the first Asian American rabbi, she holds a special place in U.S. Jewish history.  Of course […]

(Illustration/Forward)
Posted inReligion

Eulogized for championing women, Reform leader now accused of abusing them

Arno Rosenfeld by Arno Rosenfeld and Forward November 11, 2021
Rabbinical students at Hebrew College near Boston, including Gita Karasov, left, are creating a video that shows women, transgender and non-binary Jews demonstrating how to wear tefillin. (Photo/JTA-Dena Trugman)
Posted inJewish Life

Learning to wear tefillin from women and transgender Jews

Josefin Dolsten by Josefin Dolsten April 10, 2018April 10, 2018
Rabbi Judy Shanks stands in the center of an unrolled Torah scroll on Simchat Torah at Temple Isaiah of Lafayette,
 (Photo/Courtesy Jen Boxerman)
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Next up for retiring Rabbi Judy Shanks? It’s a mystery (maybe)

by Rob Gloster March 19, 2018March 20, 2018
Singer dances in the center of a group of women, smiling and hosting a Torah scroll up over her head
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When women rabbis say #MeToo, communities must pay attention

Rabbi Hara Person by Rabbi Hara Person December 13, 2017

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