Jacqueline Mates-Muchin, a San Francisco native, is the first Chinese-American rabbi in the world.[1][2] Her mother was second-generation Chinese-American and her father was the son of Austrian Jewish Holocaust surviving immigrants.[3] She was ordained by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York in 2002.[4] After serving as an assistant rabbi in Buffalo, New York, she joined Temple Sinai in Oakland, California in 2005.[5] She was chosen as the first female senior rabbi of Temple Sinai in January 2015.[6] She's married with four children, aged twenty two, twenty, eighteen, and fifteen, as of October 2024.[6] She has received numerous awards for her academics and service.[7]
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- ^ a b "Temple Sinai has a new senior rabbi". jweekly.com. 30 January 2015.
- ^ "Clergy - Temple Sinai Oakland". www.oaklandsinai.org. Retrieved 2024-10-23.