Sivan Malkin Maas is an Israeli cleric who was the first Israeli to be ordained as a rabbi in Humanistic Judaism.

Biography

Maas is the daughter of

Yaakov Malkin Yaakov Malkin (3 August 1926 – 21 July 2019) was a Polish-Israeli educator, literary critic, and professor emeritus in the Faculty of Arts at Tel Aviv University. He was active in several institutions that deal with both cultural and Humanistic ...

, who was the editor of the journal "''Free Judaism''", which deals with secular humanistic Judaism.Maas was ordained by the

International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism The International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism (IISHJ) is the academic and intellectual center of Humanistic Judaism. It was established in Jerusalem in 1985 and, with its second center of activity based in Farmington Hills, Michigan. Th ...

in 2003. Her thesis was "How to build and develop a Secular Humanistic Jewish community in Israel." Maas founded the ''Institute for Training Secular Humanistic Rabbis and Jewish Leadership'' in Israel, which ordained its first group of secular rabbis in Israel in 2006 (five men and two women). Rather than as a religious leader, she views a

rabbi A rabbi () is a spiritual leader or religious teacher in Judaism. One becomes a rabbi by being ordained by another rabbi – known as ''semikha'' – following a course of study of Jewish history and texts such as the Talmud. The basic form of ...

as "an educator, a counselor, an expert in Jewish culture ndan initiator and organizer of community events and a person involved in people's life-cycle events" Maas currently directs the Jerusalem branch of the

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