Helga Newmark

Helga Newmark, née Helga Hoflich, (1932–2012) was the first female Holocaust survivor ordained as a rabbi.[1][2][3]

Biography

She was born in Germany, and was sent to the concentration camps of Westerbork, Bergen-Belsen, and Terezín (known in German as Theresienstadt Ghetto) in Czechoslovakia.[4][5] She was freed at the age of twelve, and immigrated to America at the age of sixteen.[5] When she had her first child, a daughter, she began to wonder how she would answer her daughter's questions about God.[4] After considering several religions, she joined a Conservative synagogue, Temple Emanuel in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey.[4] There she learned so much from the rabbi and his wife that she eventually became principal of the synagogue.[4]

She was accepted to the Reform movement's Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion on her second attempt, and was ordained in 2000 after eight years of study.[6] She served as a rabbi at Barnert Temple in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, for two years.[6]

Publications

She is the author of the book Letters to the Wise One: A Holocaust Survivor's Conversations with God, published in 2007.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ "docs.google.com". Archived from the original on 2021-03-07. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
  2. ^ "Helga Newmark, rabbi late in life, dies - NorthJersey.com". Archived from the original on 2013-11-04. Retrieved 2012-07-01.
  3. ^ a b HUC-JIR: Press Room - In Memoriam: Rabbi Helga Newmark[dead link]
  4. ^ a b c d "Holocaust survivor ordained as a Reform rabbi at age 67 | j. the Jewish news weekly of Northern California". 26 May 2000. Archived from the original on 2013-11-04. Retrieved 2012-07-01.
  5. ^ a b "Remembering Helga Newmark, the First Female Holocaust Survivor to Become an Ordained Rabbi – Tablet Magazine". 13 March 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-06-23. Retrieved 2012-07-01.
  6. ^ a b Helga Newmark, rabbi late in life, dies : page 2 - NorthJersey.com

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