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Tamar Manasseh is a triple minority -- black, Jewish and studying to become a rabbi.
"As if African-American women don't have enough challenges already, why would you want to go ahead and do something like this?" she says, asking the question that others have posed. "You don't make the decision to do it. It kind of comes to you."
The Chicago-born mother of two has four years to go in the five-year rabbinic master's program at the African-American-founded Israelite Academy. Its previous incarnation, the New York-based Ethiopian Hebrew Rabbinical College, dates to 1925.
Raised by her mother in the Jewish faith since youth, Manasseh, 30, is a lifelong member of Beth Shalom B'Nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation.
The congregation, which is largely black, was founded in 1915 and moved to its current location -- the former Lawn Manor Hebrew Congregation on South Kedzie in Marquette Park -- in 2004, from the Southeast Side....
Full story: http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/religion/892577,CST-NWS-rabbi13.article |
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