Jacqueline Mates-Muchin

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Jacqueline Mates-Muchin, a San Francisco native, is the first Chinese-American rabbi in the world. [1] [2] Her mother was second-generation Chinese-American and her father was the son of Austrian Jewish immigrants. [3] She was ordained by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York in 2002. [4] After serving as an assistant rabbi in Buffalo, New York, she joined Temple Sinai in Oakland, California in 2005. [5] She was chosen as the first female senior rabbi of Temple Sinai in January 2015. [6] She has four children, aged twenty, eighteen, fifteen, and twelve, as of January 2022. [6]

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