Wikipedia's first sentence called it “first female rabbi to serve in australia”. Today it says “american-born rabbi”.
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Karen Soria is the first female rabbi to serve in Australia, although she was born and ordained in the United States. She was originally from the Chicago area, and graduated from the HUC-JIR Reform Jewish seminary in 1981. She then became Australia's first female rabbi, serving with congregations in Melbourne from 1981 until 1989.1Soria later became the first female rabbi to serve with the U.S.2Marines, which she did from 1992 until 1996; she was also the second female rabbi to serve in the U.S. Navy, a position she held from 1992 to 2003. In 2009 Soria became the first female rabbi in the Canadian Forces; she was assigned to 3 Canadian Forces Flying Training School in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. In 2011 HUC-JIR awarded her an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree. As of 2011 , Soria served as rabbi of Beth Israel Congregation in Kingston, Ontario . The Jews in Australia .3
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Karen Soria is the first female rabbi to serve in Australia, although she was born and ordained in the United States. She was originally from the Chicago area, and graduated from the HUC-JIR Reform Jewish seminary in 1981. She then became Australia's first female rabbi, serving with congregations in Melbourne from 1981 until 1989. Rabbi Soria later became the first female rabbi to serve in the U.S. Marines, which she did from 1992 until 1996; she was also the second female rabbi to serve in the U.S. Navy, a position she held from 1992 to 2003. In 2009 Soria became the first female rabbi in the Canadian Forces; she was assigned to 3 Canadian Forces Flying Training School in Portage La Prairie, Manitoba. In 2011 HUC-JIR awarded her an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree.
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American-born rabbi and chaplain, first woman rabbi in Australia Karen Soria is an American-born rabbi.She became the first female rabbi to serve in Australia when she joined the rabbinical team at Temple Beth Israel, a progressive Reform Jewish synagogue in Melbourne, in the 1980s.She later served as a chaplain for the U.S.Navy; she was the first woman rabbi to serve in this capacity for the Marines, and the second in the Navy.After moving to Canada, she became the first woman rabbi to serve as a chaplain with the Canadian Forces.
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first female rabbi to serve in australia
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