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Rabbi Sigma Faye Coran (March 23, 1966 – May 8, 2020) was Senior Rabbi at Rockdale Temple, Amberley, Ohio. She was the first woman to serve as the senior rabbi of a Cincinnati area congregation.

Biography

Coran was born in St. Louis, Missouri and grew up in Akron, Ohio. She studied clinical psychology and biology at Tufts University. She was ordained at Hebrew Union College.

Coran served as Assistant Rabbi at Temple Emanuel in Worcester, Massachusetts from 1994 to 1999. Coran was appointed Senior Rabbi of Rockdale Temple, the oldest Jewish congregation in the United States west of the Allegheny Mountains, on July 1, 2004. She was the first woman to serve as the senior rabbi of a Cincinnati area congregation. 

She married Rabbi Matthew Kraus with whom she had four children.

Rabbi Sigma Faye Coran died on May 8, 2020, of metastatic breast cancer.

References

1. ^ May, Lucy (9 May 2020). "Pioneering Rockdale Temple Rabbi Sigma "Sissy" Faye Coran has died". WCPO-TV. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
2. ^ "Pioneering Rockdale Temple Rabbi Sigma "Sissy" Faye Coran has died". WCPO. May 8, 2020. Retrieved May 10, 2020.
3. Francus, Yoseff (May 14, 2020). "Rabbi Sigma "Sissy" Faye Coran: Rabbi, teacher, mother, wife". American Israelite. Retrieved May 15, 2020.

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