Rabbi Bearman ties parashat Bereishit to two historical female rabbis: Rabbi Sally Priesand and Rabbi Regina Jonas. Rabbi Priesand’s favorite biblical figure is Eve, “because she chose knowledge and wisdom over life in the Garden of Eden.” Rabbi Jonas is known as the first female rabbi, ordained in 1935. She was murdered in Auschwitz around October 1944. Parashat Bereishit has been designated as her yahrzeit.

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