Sigma Faye Coran

Rabbi
Sigma Faye Coran
TitleSenior Rabbi
Personal life
Born(1966-03-23)March 23, 1966
St. Louis, Missouri
DiedMay 8, 2020(2020-05-08) (aged 54)
NationalityAmerican
SpouseMatthew Kraus
Children4
Alma materTufts University
Religious life
ReligionJudaism

Rabbi Sigma Faye Coran (March 23, 1966 – May 8, 2020) was Senior Rabbi at Rockdale Temple, Amberley, Ohio.[1] She was the first woman to serve as the senior rabbi of a Cincinnati area congregation.[2]

Biography

Coran was born in St. Louis, Missouri and grew up in Akron, Ohio.[1] She studied clinical psychology and biology at Tufts University.[1] She was ordained at Hebrew Union College.[1]

Coran served as Assistant Rabbi at Temple Emanuel in Worcester, Massachusetts from 1994 to 1999.[3] Coran was appointed Senior Rabbi of Rockdale Temple, the oldest Jewish congregation in the United States west of the Allegheny Mountains, on July 1, 2004.[1] She was the first woman to serve as the senior rabbi of a Cincinnati area congregation.[2] 

She married Rabbi Matthew Kraus with whom she had four children.[1]

Rabbi Sigma Faye Coran died on May 8, 2020, of metastatic breast cancer.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g May, Lucy (9 May 2020). "Pioneering Rockdale Temple Rabbi Sigma "Sissy" Faye Coran has died". WCPO-TV. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Pioneering Rockdale Temple Rabbi Sigma "Sissy" Faye Coran has died". WCPO. May 8, 2020. Retrieved May 10, 2020.
  3. ^ Francus, Yoseff (May 14, 2020). "Rabbi Sigma "Sissy" Faye Coran: Rabbi, teacher, mother, wife". American Israelite. Retrieved May 15, 2020.


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