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Floriane Chinsky
Personal life
Born	1974 Paris
Religious life
Religion	Judaism

Floriane Chinsky (born 1974 in Paris, France) is the first female rabbi in Belgium.

In 2005, she was ordained as a rabbi at the Schechter Institute in Jerusalem; the same year she received a Ph.D. in sociology of law, with a thesis studying the social representations of Jewish law in France. She became Belgium's first female rabbi in 2005, at Beth Hillel, Brussels’ Reform congregation.

In 2010, she became the rabbi at the Masorti congregation, Neve Shalom, in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, and in 2013, became a rabbi at the Liberal Jewish Movement of France in Paris. She is the third woman to become a rabbi in France.

See also

• Timeline of women rabbis

References

1. "Représentation de la loi juive et de sa flexibilité - OpenGrey". www.opengrey.eu. Retrieved 2018-10-08.
2. Laporte, Christian (2005-09-09). "Madam Rabbi Floriane Chinsky ..." La Libre Belgique (in French).
3. "Brussels sprouting: Belgium gets its first female rabbi". Jweekly.com. 2006-01-27. Retrieved 2010-11-19.
4. Chinsky, Floriane. "L'auteure". Liberté juive (in French).
5. "Rabbin Floriane Chinsky". Floriane Chinsky (in French). 2014-05-13. Retrieved 2018-09-04.
6. "Our Rabbis". www.mjlf.org. MJLF. Retrieved 2018-09-04.
7. "Être femme rabbin en France : une pratique rare". The Times of Israël (in French). 2015-12-14. Retrieved 2019-06-09.

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Timeline of women rabbis
Pre-modern figures	Bible and Talmud Deborah (1107–1067 BCE) Bruriah (2nd century) Medieval and early modern era Rashi's daughters (11th–12th century) Bat ha-Levi (12th century) Paula Dei Mansi (13th century) Miriam Shapira-Luria (14th century) Fioretta of Modena (1522–1580) Bayla Falk (16th century) Eva Bacharach (1580–1651) Asenath Barzani (1590–1670) Frehat Bat Avraham (d. 1756) Maiden of Ludmir (1805–1888)
Modern figures	Ray Frank (1861–1948) Lily Montagu (1873–1963) Regina Jonas (1902–1944) Tehilla Lichtenstein (1893–1973) Paula Ackerman (1893–1989) Martha Neumark (1904–1981) Avis Clamitz (1908-1991) Helen Levinthal (1910–1989) Sally Priesand (b. 1946) Mimi Feigelson (b. 1963) First ordination by denomination Regina Jonas (Reform, 1935) Sandy Sasso (Reconstructionist, 1974) Lynn Gottlieb (Renewal, 1981) Amy Eilberg (Conservative, 1985) Tamara Kolton (Humanistic, 1999) Sara Hurwitz (Orthodox, 2009)
Alternate rabbinical roles	Yoetzet halacha Toanot Rabniyot
Organisations and midrashot	Women's Rabbinic Network Yeshivat Maharat Matan Women's Institute Midreshet Lindenbaum Nishmat Center Hadran
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