Shira Marili Mirvis (

Hebrew Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...

: שירה מרילי מירוויס; born 1980), is an Israeli

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leader and teacher. In April, 2021 she was chosen as the spiritual leader of th
Shirat HaTamar
synagogue in

Efrat Efrat ( he, אֶפְרָת), or previously officially Efrata ( he, אֶפְרָתָה), is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, established in 1983 in the Judean Mountains. Efrat is located south of Jerusalem, between Bethlehem and Hebron, ...

, Israel. She is the first women to hold the position of sole spiritual leader of an Orthodox community in Israel. Marili Mirvis was officially installed by the Chief Rabbi of Efrat

Shlomo Riskin Shlomo Riskin (born May 28, 1940) is an Orthodox rabbi, and the founding rabbi of Lincoln Square Synagogue on the Upper West Side of New York City, which he led for 20 years; founding chief rabbi of the Israeli settlement of Efrat in the Israeli- ...

. In February 2022

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named her one of the 50 most influential women in Israel and in June of that year it was announced that she would be appointed by Religious Affairs Minister

Matan Kahana Matan Kahana ( he, מַתָּן כַּהֲנָא, born 29 July 1972) is an Israeli politician who served as deputy Minister of Religious Services and as a member of Knesset for New Right and Yamina. He was an officer in the IDF with the rank o ...

as the interim chair of the Efrat municipality's religious council. Marili Mirvis is a graduate of the Women's Institute for Halakhic Leadership at

Midreshet Lindenbaum Midreshet Lindenbaum (), originally named Michlelet Bruria, is a midrasha in Talpiot, Jerusalem. It counts among its alumnae many of the teachers at Matan, Nishmat, Pardes and other women's and co-ed yeshivas in Israel and abroad. History Michl ...

and likewise holds a BA in Psychology and Information Sciences from

Bar-Ilan University Bar-Ilan University (BIU, he, אוניברסיטת בר-אילן, ''Universitat Bar-Ilan'') is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is Israel's second-largest academic i ...

. The Shirat HaTamar community which she leads consists of around 45 families from various Jewish ethnic traditions: Ashkenazi Jews as well as Jews of Tunisian, Yemenite, and Moroccan origin. One of its aims is “to include women as much as possible within the guidelines of halacha". Marili Mirvis is married to Shlomo Mirvis, founder and CEO of the tech startu
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ref name=":1"> and nephew of Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, Chief Rabbi of United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. They have five children.

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Shirat HaTamar Synagogue

Susi Bradfield Women’s Institute of Halakhic Leadership

A Parsha of their Own
(פרשה משלהן; Hebrew podcast hosted by Marili Mirvis and Chamutal Shoval) {{DEFAULTSORT:Marili Mirvis, Shira 1980 births Living people Orthodox women rabbis Zionists Israeli Orthodox rabbis Israeli settlers

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