Floriane Chinsky

Floriane Chinsky

Personal
Born	1974 Paris
Religion	Judaism

Position	Rabbi
Synagogue	MJLF in eastern Paris
Yeshiva	Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies
Position	Rabbi
Organisation	Liberal Jewish Movement of France

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^[1] of Jewish law in France.^[2] She became Belgium's first female rabbi in 2005, at Beth Hillel, Brussels’ Reform congregation.^[3]

In 2010, she became the rabbi at the Masorti congregation, Neve Shalom, in Saint-Germain-en-Laye,^[4] and in 2013, became a rabbi at the Liberal Jewish Movement of France in Paris.^[5]^[6] She is the third woman to become a rabbi in France.^[7]

References

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

Women rabbis and Torah scholars

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)