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A Cleveland native will soon become what is believed to be mainstream Judaism’s first black female rabbi.
Alysa Stanton, 45, will be ordained June 6 in Cincinnati after completing rabbinical studies there.
She will become the rabbi at Congregation Bayt Shalom in Greenville, N.C., in August. Experts say her ordination is a first and could help draw more women and blacks to Jewish leadership roles.
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