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From Niskayuna childhood, to Israel s first female rabbi FacebookTwitterEmail Niskayuna native Kinneret Shiryon was infinitely patient as a child when her playmates would ask her to explain various aspects of Judaism. It was good training for the woman who became Israel s first female rabbi.contributed Kinneret Shiryon is a hometown heroine who attended Craig Elementary and Van Antwerp Middle School in Niskayuna before her pioneering path took her to Israel. There, she became Israel’s first female rabbi.  This month, she visited the B’nai Sholom Reform Congregation in Albany via a Zoom session and traced her trailblazing path. Born Sandra Levine, Shiryon is a youthful and energetic 65. She was ordained at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York in 1981. And she established her own congregation, Kehillat YOZMA, the first non-Orthodox congregation to receive funding from Israel in the late 1990s. It’s also home to the first Reform day school to receive

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