Julie Schwartz (rabbi)

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Julie Schwartz
Personal life
Born
Cincinnati
NationalityAmerican
Religious life
Religion Judaism
PositionRabbi
OrganisationB'nai Israel
Began1999

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]

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

  1. ↑ "Rabbi reshapes traditional mold of chaplains and healers". J. 21 February 2003. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 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.


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