Jacqueline Mates-Muchin Explained

Jacqueline Mates-Muchin, a San Francisco native, is the first Chinese-American rabbi in the world.[1] [2] Her mother was second-generation Chinese-American and her father was the son of Austrian Jewish Holocaust surviving immigrants.[3] She was ordained by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York in 2002.[4] After serving as an assistant rabbi in Buffalo, New York, she joined Temple Sinai in Oakland, California in 2005.[5] She was chosen as the first female senior rabbi of Temple Sinai in January 2015.[6] She's married with four children, aged twenty two, twenty, eighteen, and fifteen, as of October 2024.[6] She has received numerous awards for her academics and service.[7]

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  1. Web site: New lecture series in Oakland hopes to generate a better acceptance of Jews of color. dan pine. jweekly.com. 14 October 2011 .
  2. Web site: China, Israel and Judaism. shma.com.
  3. Web site: Tiger Moms tamed by American experience. Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 26 January 2011 .
  4. Web site: Shorts: Bay Area. jweekly.com. 21 November 2003 .
  5. Web site: Clergy: The Rabbis and Cantor of Temple Sinai. Temple Sinai in Oakland, CA. 2015-01-31. https://web.archive.org/web/20150131221151/http://oaklandsinai.org/Clergy_Staff. 2015-01-31. dead.
  6. Web site: Temple Sinai has a new senior rabbi. jweekly.com. 30 January 2015 .
  7. Web site: Clergy - Temple Sinai Oakland . 2024-10-23 . www.oaklandsinai.org.

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