| Julie Schwartz | |
| Organisation: | B'nai Israel |
| Organisationposition: | Rabbi |
| Began: | 1999 |
| Birth Place: | Cincinnati |
| Nationality: | American |
Julie Schwartz is an American rabbi.[1] She was born in Cincinnati and, in 1986, she became the first woman to serve as an active-duty Jewish chaplain in the U.S. Navy, the same year she was ordained by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.[2] [3] She counseled patients at the naval hospital in Oakland, California, and after a three-year tour of duty she returned to Cincinnati and held assorted jobs at HUC-JIR.
In 1999, she became the first rabbi of B'nai Israel, the south side's first Jewish congregation in Fayette County, Georgia; they had previously been served by rabbinical students.
In 2011, she returned to HUC-JIR to head the pastoral care and counseling program she founded.[4]
The 2022 art exhibit “Holy Sparks”, shown among other places at the Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, featured art about twenty-four female rabbis who were firsts in some way;[5] [6] Emily Bowen Cohen created the artwork about Schwartz that was in that exhibit.[7]