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Lia Bass

Latin American female rabbi

Lia Bass is a Brazilian-born American rabbi and the first Latin American female rabbi in the world.^[1] She is also Northern Virginia's first female Conservative rabbi and the first woman from Brazil to be ordained as a rabbi.^[2]^[3] She was born in Rio de Janeiro, and was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York in 1994.^[4]^[5]^[6] In 2001 she became the rabbi of Congregation Etz Hayim in Arlington, Virginia.^[7] and served until 2020.^[8] In 2020 she founded and, as of Sept. 2022, runs the Jewish Institute for Lifelong Learning & Innovation, based in Arlington, Virginia.^[9]

References

^ "A Message of Progress". Northern Virginia Magazine. Archived from the original on 2013-10-19.
^ Spark Experience. "A Taste of Brazil Flavors Passover". Jewish Food Experience.
^ "Rabbi". etzhayim. Archived from the original on 2013-10-19.
^ "Spring 2012 Letters". Archived from the original on September 27, 2013.
^ Spark Experience. "A Taste of Brazil Flavors and me Passover". Jewish Food Experience.
^ "Rabbi". etzhayim. Archived from the original on 2013-10-19.
^ "Rabbi". etzhayim. Archived from the original on 2013-10-19.
^ "About Us". Eitz Chayim. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
^ "Founder & Spiritual Leader – Jewish Institute for Lifelong Learning & Innovation". Retrieved 9 September 2022.

Women rabbis and Torah scholars

Timeline of women rabbis

Pre-modern
figures

Bible and Talmud	Deborah (1107–1067 BCE) Bruriah (2nd century)
Medieval and early modern era	Rashi's daughters (11th–12th century) Bat ha-Levi (12th century) Paula Dei Mansi (13th century) Miriam Shapira-Luria (14th century) Fioretta of Modena (1522–1580) Bayla Falk (16th century) Eva Bacharach (1580–1651) Asenath Barzani (1590–1670) Frehat Bat Avraham (d. 1756) Maiden of Ludmir (1805–1888)

Modern figures

Ray Frank (1861–1948)
Lily Montagu (1873–1963)
Regina Jonas (1902–1944)
Tehilla Lichtenstein (1893–1973)
Paula Ackerman (1893–1989)
Martha Neumark (1904–1981)
Avis Clamitz (1908-1991)
Helen Levinthal (1910–1989)
Sally Priesand (b. 1946)
Mimi Feigelson (b. 1963)

First ordination by denomination	Regina Jonas (Reform, 1935) Sandy Sasso (Reconstructionist, 1974) Lynn Gottlieb (Renewal, 1981) Amy Eilberg (Conservative, 1985) Tamara Kolton (Humanistic, 1999) Sara Hurwitz (Orthodox, 2009)