Deborah Cohen
| Deborah Cohen | |
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| Born | California, United States |
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| 📆 Years active | 1981-present |
Dr. Deborah Cohen is the first woman to be certified as a mohelet (female circumciser) by the Reform Jewish movement.[1]
Career
Cohen was an obstetrician[2] at Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Los Angeles.[3] A family doctor, Cohen had first turned to the Conservative and Orthodox movements to be trained as a mohelet, but was denied. In early fall of 1981, Cohen contacted the Hebrew Union College to ask for training, but the Reform movement had not yet trained any women to be mohalot.[4] The Reform movement recognized that women could act as mohalot in 1984. The Union of American Hebrew Congregations (now the Union for Reform Judaism), created the Brit Milah Board as the first circumcision training program offered by a liberal Jewish organization.[5] She became the first woman to be trained as a mohelet by the Reform Jewish movement in 1984.[6][7][unreliable source]
See also
References
- ↑ "Berit Mila Program of Reform Judaism". beritmila.org. Archived from the original on October 7, 2013. Retrieved March 30, 2023. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Bloch Rosensaft, Jean (Fall 2006). "California Dreaming: The Life and Times Of Rabbi Lewis M. Barth Ph.D." Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion. Retrieved 2023-03-30.
- ↑ "Reform Graduates Class Of Mohalim". Jewish Post. 1984-11-07. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-03-30.
- ↑ Barth, Lewis (1984-11-02). "Introducing the Reform Mohel" (PDF). Rhode Island Herald. p. 4. Retrieved 2023-03-30.
- ↑ Trachtman, Ilana; Blustain, Sarah (1999-03-15). "When the Mohel is a Woman". Lilith Magazine. Retrieved 2023-03-30.
- ↑ "Women Carve Out a New Niche in an Old Rite". Chicago Tribune. 1995-05-21. Retrieved 2023-03-30.
- ↑ "A Mohel's Role In Jewish Life". CJNews. Archived from the original on March 30, 2023. Retrieved 2023-03-30. Unknown parameter
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