As we look back at Jews in the Americas for the 250th, we’re revisiting the story of Ray Frank, the “Girl Rabbi of the Golden West.” In the 1890s, she became a celebrated Jewish orator, leading High Holiday services and filling opera houses across the American West. But her story is about more than a woman breaking into a male world. It’s about how Jewish life was taking shape in the expanding American West, and one woman who challenged what it meant to lead, teach, and live as a Jew.
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Here is a photo of Ray Frank from 1890:
https://jwa.org/media/ray-frank
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