Sarah Schechter
Sarah Schechter is the first female rabbi in the U.S. Air Force.[1] She joined the Air Force as a chaplain candidate, and became a chaplain when she was ordained as a Reform rabbi in 2003.[2] Her father was an Air Force chaplain in 1960.[3][4]
She grew up in Manhattan, and decided to join the military immediately after the September 11 attacks, calling a recruiter on September 12.[5] Her daughter Yael Emunah was born during her military service.[6]
In 2013 she was the Jewish chaplain of the 11th Wing at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, and was featured on the chaplain section of the Air Force website.[7][8]
She wrote the piece "Personal Reflection: A Rabbi in the Military", which appears in the book The Sacred Calling: Four Decades of Women in the Rabbinate, published in 2016.[9][10][11]
See also
References
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- Ain, Stewart. "Passover In The Trenches". jewishweek.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved Sep 27, 2020.
- Air Force Captain and Reform Rabbi on Life as a Military Mom – The Sisterhood – Forward.com
- "U.S. Air Force - Chaplain". www.airforce.com. Retrieved Sep 27, 2020.
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- Hirshel Jaffe. "The Message of the Sacred Calling: Our Journey to True Equality | RavBlog". Ravblog.ccarnet.org. Retrieved 2016-05-26.
- Zauzmer, Julie (2012-12-14). "'I not only envisioned it. I fought for it': The first female rabbi isn't done yet". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2016-05-26.
- http://www.ccarpress.org/admin/manage_assetlibrary/file.asp?id=04646
External link
- Media related to Sarah Schechter (rabbi) at Wikimedia Commons