The Jewish Women's Archive's encyclopedia entry on Sally Priesand, recording her 3 June 1972 ordination by Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati as the first woman ordained a rabbi by a rabbinical seminary anywhere, within the Reform movement.
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A curated academic-adjacent biographical encyclopedia maintained by a dedicated archive of Jewish women's history, editorially reviewed rather than peer-reviewed. Corroborated against contemporaneous NPR coverage of the same date before citing. NotesCited for the 3 June 1972 ordination date.
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PublisherJewish Women's Archive
URLhttps://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/priesand-sally-jane
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