Alona Lisitsa Explained
Alona Lisitsa (born 1971)[1] is the first female rabbi in Israel to join a religious council.[2] Although Leah Shakdiel, who was not a rabbi, joined the Yerucham religious council in 1988 after a Supreme Court decision in her favor, no female rabbi had joined a religious council until Lisitsa joined Mevasseret Zion’s in 2012.[3] She was appointed to the council three years before that, but the Religious Affairs Ministry delayed approving her appointment until Israel’s High Court of Justice ordered it to.[4]
Lisitsa was born in Kiev, Ukraine, and is a Reform rabbi.[4] [5] She works at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Jerusalem.[5]
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Notes and References
- Web site: Israeli Youth A. Hehaver - Ohel Jacob Synagogue . 19 August 2016 . 21 December 2022.
- Web site: Alona Lisitsa – Tags – Forward.com . Blogs.forward.com . 2012-05-28 . 2013-10-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131016195602/http://blogs.forward.com/sisterhood-blog/tags/alona-lisitsa/ . 2013-10-16 . dead .
- Web site: Female Rabbi Joins the Ultimate Men's Club – The Sisterhood – Forward.com . Blogs.forward.com . 2012-05-28 . 2013-10-17.
- Web site: Female Rabbi Joins the Ultimate Men's Club – The Sisterhood – Forward.com . Blogs.forward.com . 2012-05-28 . 2013-10-17.
- Web site: Oster . Marcy . Female Reform rabbi seated on Jerusalem suburb's religious council | Jewish Telegraphic Agency . Jta.org . 2012-05-16 . 2013-10-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120519004449/http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/05/16/3095576/female-reform-rabbi-seated-on-religious-council-of-jerusalem-suburb . 2012-05-19 . dead .
