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This Week in “I’m sorry, what now?” : First Black Female Rabbi

» 05 June 2009 »

I know where I grew up all the Black Girls were all just constantly yammering on about how much they wanted to be….a Rabbi? Alysa Stanton can now be their role models.

Stanton this weekend is set to become the first African-American female rabbi of mainstream Juda-ism. She’s graduating from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati on Sunday, after being ordained Saturday. She will then in August take her post as leader of Congregation Bayt Shalom in North Carolina.

Yay?

I have to wonder what her journey in school was and what its going to be coming up. I would imagine she’s probably experienced some things that people who, well, DIDN’T go to RABBI SCHOOL. I’m wondering at what point will White people go “Seriously. Stop it. Yes you CAN be anything but we will throw things at some point.”

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  • Lanf

    I’m not black or Jewish, so the best I can muster is “Mmmm, okay. You do your thing.” I can only get excited about a finite number of things in a day and must ration myself appropriately.

    (I do promise never to start throwing things.)

  • Lanf

    I’m not black or Jewish, so the best I can muster is “Mmmm, okay. You do your thing.” I can only get excited about a finite number of things in a day and must ration myself appropriately.

    (I do promise never to start throwing things.)

  • JC

    I suspect you’re only familiar with the Ashkenazi Jews who are the biggest group in the US (Jews of Eastern European backgrounds, who tend to be light skinned). There are Jews all over the world, including in Africa, and even in the US, not all Jews are Ashkenazi. So while white people like to get het up about pretty much anything, we’ve got no business policing who’s Jewish by the color of their skin (which won’t necessarily stop us, but that will just be showing yet again our ignorance).

  • JC

    I suspect you’re only familiar with the Ashkenazi Jews who are the biggest group in the US (Jews of Eastern European backgrounds, who tend to be light skinned). There are Jews all over the world, including in Africa, and even in the US, not all Jews are Ashkenazi. So while white people like to get het up about pretty much anything, we’ve got no business policing who’s Jewish by the color of their skin (which won’t necessarily stop us, but that will just be showing yet again our ignorance).

  • Bashley

    Congratulations Rabbi Stanton.

  • Bashley

    Congratulations Rabbi Stanton.

  • Roxie

    Damn. she gave up bacon.

  • Roxie

    Damn. she gave up bacon.