May 28, 2009
Source: The Houston Chronicle
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/religion/6445992.html
Alysa Stanton says she would have converted to Judaism and submitted to the rigors of becoming a rabbi even if she had been the 50,000th African-American woman to do so — instead of the history-making first.
And now, as she is preparing for her ordination on June 6 and her transition to her new job with a congregation in Greenville, N.C., she feels the same way.
Stanton will receive her master’s degree from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati next week and will be ordained at Plum Street Temple there.
She is scheduled to become the rabbi of Congregation Bayt Shalom on Aug. 1, working part-time.