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Rachel “Ray” <I>Frank</I> Litman

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Rachel “Ray” Frank Litman

Birth
San Francisco County, California, USA
Death
10 Oct 1948 (aged 83)
Peoria County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Urbana, Champaign County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
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The first Jewish woman to preach formally from a pulpit in the United States, inaugurating a career as "the Girl Rabbi of the Golden West" that would help to blaze new paths for women in Judaism. Despite the fact that Frank claimed to have no interest in becoming a rabbi, her actions forced American Jewry to consider the possibility of the ordination of women seriously for the first time
The first Jewish woman to preach formally from a pulpit in the United States, inaugurating a career as "the Girl Rabbi of the Golden West" that would help to blaze new paths for women in Judaism. Despite the fact that Frank claimed to have no interest in becoming a rabbi, her actions forced American Jewry to consider the possibility of the ordination of women seriously for the first time

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  • Created by: SkåneBesökare
  • Added: Aug 24, 2013
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/115977056/rachel-litman: accessed ), memorial page for Rachel “Ray” Frank Litman (10 Apr 1865–10 Oct 1948), Find a Grave Memorial ID 115977056, citing Mount Hope Cemetery and Mausoleum, Urbana, Champaign County, Illinois, USA; Maintained by SkåneBesökare (contributor 47402285).