'I will not be boxed in,' says newly ordained Stanton
(NEWSER) - Last week Alysa Stanton was ordained as a rabbi at the Plum Street Temple in Cincinnati, one of the country's oldest synagogues, and a little history was made—the US had its first black female leader of a Jewish congregation. Stanton, born a Pentecostal Christian, converted in 1987, enduring hostility and isolation from both white Jews and other African Americans. "But my God is bigger," she tells the Guardian. "I will not be boxed in." More»
