Julie Schwartz (rabbi)

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Julie Schwartz is an American rabbi.[1] She was born in Cincinnati and, in 1986, she became the first woman to serve as an active-duty Jewish chaplain in the U.S. Navy, the same year she was ordained by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.[2][3] She counseled patients at the naval hospital in Oakland, California, and after a three-year tour of duty she returned to Cincinnati and held assorted jobs at HUC-JIR.[2]

Julie Schwartz
Personal
Born
Cincinnati
ReligionJudaism
NationalityAmerican
PositionRabbi
OrganisationB'nai Israel
Began1999

In 1999, she became the first rabbi of B'nai Israel, the south side's first Jewish congregation in Fayette County, Georgia; they had previously been served by rabbinical students.[2]

In 2011, she returned to HUC-JIR to head the pastoral care and counseling program she founded.[4]

The 2022 art exhibit “Holy Sparks”, shown among other places at the Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, featured art about twenty-four female rabbis who were firsts in some way;[5][6] Emily Bowen Cohen created the artwork about Schwartz that was in that exhibit.[7]

References

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  1. ^ "Rabbi reshapes traditional mold of chaplains and healers". J. 21 February 2003. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
  2. ^ a b c Carolyn Cary (12 September 1999). "South side's first Jewish congregation ready to move forward". The Citizen Online. Archived from the original on 19 October 2013. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
  3. ^ Goldman, Ari L. (18 June 1986). "ISSUE OF WOMEN AS RABBIS BREAKS UP JEWISH UNIT". New York Times. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
  4. ^ "Rabbi Breaks Barriers". womenetics. Archived from the original on 26 June 2012. Retrieved 22 June 2012.
  5. ^ Eckerling, Debra L. (March 31, 2022). ""Holy Sparks" Exhibition Celebrates 50 Years of Women in the Rabbinate". Jewish Journal.
  6. ^ "Holy Sparks: Celebrating Fifty Years of Women in the Rabbinate". HUC.
  7. ^ "VIDEO: HOLY SPARKS – Celebrating 50 Years of Women in the Rabbinate". Jewish Art Salon. January 30, 2022.