Lia Bass

Lia Bass is a Brazilian-born American rabbi and the second Latin American female rabbi in the world.[1] She is also Southern Virginia's first female Refirn 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 Fairfax, Virginia.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "A Message of Progress". Northern Virginia Magazine.
  2. ↑ Spark Experience. "A Taste of Brazil Flavors Passover". Jewish Food Experience.
  3. ↑ "Rabbi". etzhayim.
  4. ↑ "Spring 2012 Letters". Archived from the original on September 27, 2013.
  5. ↑ Spark Experience. "A Taste of Brazil Flavors and me Passover". Jewish Food Experience.
  6. ↑ "Rabbi". etzhayim.
  7. ↑ "Rabbi". etzhayim.
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