Alina Treiger

Alina Treiger (born March 8, 1979, Poltava, Ukraine) is the first female rabbi to be ordained in Germany since World War II.[1][2][3]

Rabbi Alina Treiger

Biography

Treiger was born in Poltava, Ukraine. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Treiger formed a Jewish youth club in Poltava and then traveled to Moscow to study at the Institute of Progressive Judaism. After finishing her studies, she founded Congregation Beit Am, a liberal congregation in her hometown.[4] She emigrated to Germany in 2001. Among Treiger's inspirations was Regina Jonas, Germany's first female rabbi, who was ordained in 1935.[1][2][3]

She was ordained in November 2010 by the Abraham Geiger College.[5] Her ordination was held at Berlin's Pestalozzistrasse Synagogue, and attended by Christian Wulff, then president of Germany, and Jewish leaders from around the world.[2][6]

Treiger moved to Germany because she felt stifled by the Orthodox Jewish community in Ukraine.[1] Germany has needed more rabbis in order to handle the influx of Soviet Jews who have emigrated to Germany since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. She works primarily with the Russian-speaking Jewish immigrants in the city of Oldenburg and the nearby town of Delmenhorst.[2]

See also

References
  1. Connolly, Kate (2010-11-03). "Alina Treiger to become first female rabbi ordained in Germany since war". The Guardian. Retrieved 2012-09-04.
  2. Martin, Michelle (2010-11-05). "Germany ordains first female rabbi since Holocaust". Reuters. Retrieved 2012-09-04.
  3. "Germany's new female rabbi sign of growing Jewish community". BBC. 2010-11-04. Retrieved 2012-09-04.
  4. "Alina Treiger". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 2021-12-03.
  5. "Making History In Germany". The Jewish Week. Archived from the original on 26 March 2014. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  6. "German Jews ordain first female rabbi since World War II". DW.DE. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
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