Charleston is a place of firsts.
It was the first permanent settlement in one of the New World’s first Colonies. It fostered the earliest cohesive Jewish community in the South. It was home to two of the four South Carolina men who signed the Declaration of Independence. It was the place where the first shots of the Civil War rang out. It was the American city where Reform Judaism first took root, in 1824.
And this July, Charleston’s Reform synagogue, Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim, will welcome the city’s first female rabbi: Stephanie Alexander.
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Local Paper Faith and Values Section–Women Rabbis
Charleston is a place of firsts.
It was the first permanent settlement in one of the New World’s first Colonies. It fostered the earliest cohesive Jewish community in the South. It was home to two of the four South Carolina men who signed the Declaration of Independence. It was the place where the first shots of the Civil War rang out. It was the American city where Reform Judaism first took root, in 1824.
And this July, Charleston’s Reform synagogue, Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim, will welcome the city’s first female rabbi: Stephanie Alexander.
Read it all.