Sivan Malkin Maas
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Sivan Malkin Maas ({{Langx|he|סיון מלכין מאס}}) 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, who was the editor of the journal "Free Judaism", which deals with secular humanistic Judaism.{{cite web|date=2004-01-07|title=Center for Cultural Judaism - News & Events|url=http://www.culturaljudaism.org/ccj/news/11|accessdate=2012-07-11|publisher=Culturaljudaism.org}} Maas was ordained by the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism in 2003.{{cite journal | title = IISHJ Ordains Tmura Fellows as Secular Rabbis | journal = The Jewish Humanist | volume =45 | issue =6 | page =6 | date =February 2007 | url =https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:Gevozl9MejgJ:www.birminghamtemple.com/public_html%28old%29/pdf/humanist/Humanist-Feb07.pdf+%22sivan+malkin+maas%22+2005&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgNS5tD-oz81aPo5rvAnDZBdFXvfsECyJO84ucVO7Fq0pMcDJG5Que0dtRIuQDwRA_x91lmBTce66i-8_ULbAEMKclKqmxNF-y3hASiu7fpFhwYZOOKoGZNicPPnxkHD60CtxiU&sig=AHIEtbSi4ID3UkUOJzfM0e-sIAEgAK4y2Q | accessdate = 2014-02-07}}{{cite web|url=http://iishj.org/faculty-staff.html |title=Faculty & Staff | International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism |publisher=Iishj.org |date= |accessdate=2012-07-11}} Her thesis was "How to build and develop a Secular Humanistic Jewish community in Israel."{{cite web|url=http://culturaljudaism.org/ccj/media/13/ |title=Center for Cultural Judaism - News & Events |publisher=Culturaljudaism.org |date= |accessdate=2012-07-11}}
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).{{cite web|url=http://www.ithacanews.org/op-ed.htm?newsID=176 |title=The Ithaca Community News- Editorials and Opinions |publisher=Ithacanews.org |date=2006-12-22 |accessdate=2012-07-11}} Rather than as a religious leader, she views a rabbi as "an educator, a counselor, an expert in Jewish culture [and] an initiator and organizer of community events and a person involved in people's life-cycle events"{{cite web|url=http://www.culturaljudaism.org/ccj/news/15 |title=Center for Cultural Judaism - News & Events |publisher=Culturaljudaism.org |date=2004-04-01 |accessdate=2012-07-11}}
Maas currently directs the Jerusalem branch of the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism.{{cite web|url=http://archive.jta.org/article/2004/04/02/2920372/rabbi-thinks-humanistic-stream-is-poised-for-big-gains-among-israelis |title=Rabbi Thinks Humanistic Stream is Poised for Big Gains Among Israelis |publisher=Archive.jta.org |date=2004-04-02 |accessdate=2012-07-11}}
See also
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