A Brief History
On December 27, 1935, Regina Jonas was ordained as the first female Rabbi in the Jewish faith. Born in Germany in 1902, she died during the Holocaust at Auschwitz in 1944, although her legacy lives on.
Digging Deeper
Women have made inroads to formerly forbidden jobs, but there are still many areas where the fairer sex has yet to achieve certain status. Some of those positions not yet achieved by a woman include President of the US, which is probably overdue considering over 60 countries have had a woman as head of state or head of government, including Britain, Germany, France, Poland, Canada, India, Portugal, Norway, Iceland, and the Philippines among others, and astronaut to walk on the Moon, despite women going to space since 1963!
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Historical Evidence
For more information, please see…
Shine, Alex. Breaking The Glass Ceiling: A Woman’s Guide To Climbing The Corporate Ladder. Kindle, 2023.
Silverman, Emily. Edith Stein and Regina Jonas: Religious Visionaries in the Time of the Death Camps. Routledge, 2019.
The featured image in this article, a photograph by Manfred Brueckels of a memorial tablet for Regina Jonas, first female rabbi at all. Berlin, Krausnickstr. No. 6, has been released into the public domain by its author, Eisenacher. This applies worldwide.
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