# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sally-priesand
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:55:45.688Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sally-priesand"
name: "Sally Priesand"
slug: "sally-priesand"
description: "Sally Jane Priesand is America's first female rabbi ordained by a rabbinical seminary, and the second formally ordained female rabbi in Jewish history, after Regina Jonas. Priesand was ordained by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion on June 3, 1972, at the Plum Street Temple in Cincinnati. After her ordination she served first as assistant and then as associate rabbi at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York City, and later led Monmouth Reform Temple in Tinton Falls, New Jersey from 1981 until her retirement in 2006. She is featured in numerous books including Rabbis: The Many Faces of Judaism and Fifty Jewish Women who Changed the World."
tagline: "First female ordained rabbi in America"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1946-06-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.6436781609195403
  historical:           6.350001333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Присанд, Салли"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF"
    title: "سالى برييساند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salli_Prisand"
    title: "Salli Prisand"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Priesand"
    title: "Sally Priesand"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Priesand"
    title: "Sally Priesand"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Priesand"
    title: "Sally Priesand"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%99_%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A1%D7%A0%D7%93"
    title: "סאלי פריסנד"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q533207"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump