Floriane Chinsky (born 1974 in

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, France) is the first

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. In 2005, she was ordained as a rabbi at the Schechter Institute in Jerusalem; the same year she received a Ph.D. in

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, with a thesis studying the social representations of Jewish law in

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. She became

's first

in 2005, at Beth Hillel,

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’ Reform congregation. In 2010, she became the rabbi at the Masorti congregation, Neve Shalom, in

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, and in 2013, became a rabbi at the

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in Paris. She is the third woman to become a rabbi in France.

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