1.0link206574<![CDATA[Alyssa Stanton, First African-American Jewish Rabbi, To Be Ordained In June]]>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/21/alyssa-stanton-first-afri_n_206574.htmlGrowing up in a black, Pentecostal family in Cleveland, Alysa Stanton never imagined the day when she would be preparing to be ordained as a Jewish rabbi.
But that day will come June 6 for the single mother who will be ordained by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, becoming the first African-American female rabbi in the world.