Deborah Davis (hazzan)

Deborah Davis is the first hazzan (also called cantor) of either sex (and therefore, since she is female, the first female hazzan) in Humanistic Judaism.{{cite web|last=Scher |first=Valerie |url=http://www.utsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060924/news_lz1a24singing.html |title='Singing that music was like a homecoming' | The San Diego Union-Tribune |website=Utsandiego.com |date=2006-09-24 |accessdate=2016-06-02}}{{cite web |url=http://www.jmwc.org/Women/womend.html |title=Contributions of Jewish Women to Music and Women to Jewish Music |website=JMWC.org |accessdate=2016-06-02 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160512020657/http://www.jmwc.org/Women/womend.html |archivedate=2016-05-12 }} She was ordained in 2001.{{cite web|author=Nancy Harrison |url=http://sandiegojewishworld.com/2007-sdjw/2007-07%20sdjw/2007-07-23monday84/2007-07-23monday84.htm |title=San Diego Jewish World~July 23-issue 84 |website=San Diego Jewish World|date= |accessdate=2016-06-02}} She is the lead singer of (and a founder of) the Second Avenue Klezmer Ensemble, which she also named.{{cite web|author=Don Harrison |url=http://www.jewishsightseeing.com/usa/california/san_diego/sd_humanist_jewish_cong/19990416-san_diego_humanists.htm |title=Synagogue Profile of San Diego Humanistic Jewish Congregation |website=Jewishsightseeing.com |date=1999-04-16 |accessdate=2016-06-02}}