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A few years ago, Rabbi Alysa Stanton lost her position in a congregation in North Carolina following some health complications. In a public Facebook post following this transition Rabbi Stanton, being the first ordained African American rabbi, was ridiculed by racist commenters.

Although not often as public and obvious as this, racism exists in the Jewish community. In this week's Torah portion we are reminded that we were ALL slaves in a strange land and that we always need to stick together.

As we begin Black History Month, I challenge all of us to begin to think about how we can best support our fellow Jews of Color in feeling safe and supported in our Synagogues, camps, Hillels, and other Jewish spaces.

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Day 9: Rabbi Alysa Stanton

Rabbi Alysa Stanton (b. 1964) is the first-ever female African-American rabbi. Born in Cleveland, Ohio and raised in the Church of God in Christ, Rabbi Stanton converted to Judaism at the age of 24. In her first career, Rabbi Stanton was a psychotherapist who specialized in grief counseling. She then pursued her dream of “leading people to prayer through music” by seeking to become first a cantor, then a rabbi. On June 6, 2009, Rabbi Stanton was ordained as a Rabbi after studying at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, a Reform Jewish seminary.

From 2009-2011, Rabbi Stanton served as a Rabbi at Congregation Bayt Shalom, a small majority-white synagogue in North Carolina. Since being ordained, Rabbi Stanton has also given seminars and lectures around the United States.

You can Rabbi Stanton here: https://www.facebook.com/rabbiofthepeople/

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The path to the pulpit has been as colorful as it has been unusual for Alysa Stanton, 45, America's first-ever female African-American rabbi

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Rabbi Alysa Stanton is the first African-American Rabbi ordained and took over the only Synagogue in Greenville, North Carolina. Her contract with this synagogue is not being renewed. She talks race and gender in the role of judaism in this NPR interview.

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A soon-to-be-graduate of Hebrew Union College, Alysa Stanton is set to become the first female African-American pulpit rabbi when she takes up her position at a mostly-white Conservative/Reform North Carolina congregation next month. According to JPost.com: She will be the first African-American rabbi to lead a majority white congregation, despite the fact that about 20 percent of the American Jewish community is ethnically and racially diverse, according to the San Francisco-based Institute for Jewish and Community Research.

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