Honorific-Prefix: | Rabbi |
Sigma Faye Coran | |
Senior Rabbi | |
Caption Mmmagogue: | Rockdale Temple |
Birth Date: | 23 March 1966 |
Birth Place: | St. Louis, Missouri |
Nationality: | American |
Spouse: | Matthew Kraus |
Children: | 4 |
Alma Mater: | Tufts University |
Rabbi Sigma Faye Coran (March 23, 1966 - May 8, 2020) was Senior Rabbi at Rockdale Temple, Amberley, Ohio.[1] She was the first woman to serve as the senior rabbi of a Cincinnati area congregation.[2]
Coran was born in St. Louis, Missouri and grew up in Akron, Ohio.[1] She studied clinical psychology and biology at Tufts University.[1] She was ordained at Hebrew Union College.[1]
Coran served as Assistant Rabbi at Temple Emanuel in Worcester, Massachusetts from 1994 to 1999.[3] Coran was appointed Senior Rabbi of Rockdale Temple, the oldest Jewish congregation in the United States west of the Allegheny Mountains, on July 1, 2004.[1] She was the first woman to serve as the senior rabbi of a Cincinnati area congregation.[2]
She married Rabbi Matthew Kraus with whom she had four children.[1]
Rabbi Sigma Faye Coran died on May 8, 2020, of metastatic breast cancer.[1]