Kinneret shiryon part of the cultural revolution in israel
Kinneret Shiryon is the first female rabbi in Israel. She is the spiritual leader of Kehillat Yozma, Modi'in's Reform congregation, which she helped establish in 1997; Kehillat Yozma is the first non-Orthodox congregation in Israel to receive state funding for its synagogue building. She was also chairwoman of the Council of Progressive Rabbis in Israel (MARAM), as well as one of the rabbis who contributed to the book Three Times Chai: 54 Rabbis Tell Their Favorite Stories. She contributed the story "Challahs in the Ark." She also wrote the piece "The First Thirty Years in Israel: Avnei Derech", which appears in the book The Sacred Calling: Four Decades of Women in the Rabbinate, published in 2016. She directed the University Student Outreach programs at UAHC's International Department of Education in Jerusalem.
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- Kinneret shiryon part of the cultural revolution in israel
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Kinneret Shiryon was born in the United States in 1955, and was ordained at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York in 1981. She has four children (Ayelet, Erez, Inbar, and Amichai) and her husband's name is Baruch.