Julie Schwartz is an American rabbi.[1] She was born in Cincinnati and, in 1986, she became the first woman to serve as an active-duty Jewish chaplain in the U.S. Navy, the same year she was ordained by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.[2][3] She counseled patients at the naval hospital in Oakland, California, and after a three-year tour of duty she returned to Cincinnati and held assorted jobs at HUC-JIR.[2]
Julie Schwartz | |
|---|---|
| Personal | |
| Born | Cincinnati |
| Religion | Judaism |
| Nationality | American |
| Position | Rabbi |
| Organisation | B'nai Israel |
| Began | 1999 |
In 1999, she became the first rabbi of B'nai Israel, the south side's first Jewish congregation in Fayette County, Georgia; they had previously been served by rabbinical students.[2]
In 2011, she returned to HUC-JIR to head the pastoral care and counseling program she founded.[4]
The 2022 art exhibit “Holy Sparks”, shown among other places at the Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, featured art about twenty-four female rabbis who were firsts in some way;[5][6] Emily Bowen Cohen created the artwork about Schwartz that was in that exhibit.[7]
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