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 Holocaust surviving 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's married with four children, aged twenty two, twenty, eighteen, and fifteen, as of October 2024. [6] She has received numerous awards for her academics and service. [7]

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  1. ↑ dan pine (14 October 2011). "New lecture series in Oakland hopes to generate a better acceptance of Jews of color". jweekly.com.
  2. ↑ "China, Israel and Judaism". shma.com.
  3. ↑ "Tiger Moms tamed by American experience". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 26 January 2011.
  4. ↑ "Shorts: Bay Area". jweekly.com. 21 November 2003.
  5. ↑ "Clergy: The Rabbis and Cantor of Temple Sinai". Temple Sinai in Oakland, CA. Archived from the original on 2015-01-31. Retrieved 2015-01-31.
  6. 1 2 "Temple Sinai has a new senior rabbi". jweekly.com. 30 January 2015.
  7. ↑ "Clergy - Temple Sinai Oakland". www.oaklandsinai.org. Retrieved 2024-10-23.
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