Jacqueline Mates-Muchin, a San Francisco native, is the first Chinese-American rabbi in the world.[1][2] Her mother was second-generation Chinese-American and her father was the son of Austrian Jewish immigrants.[3] She was ordained by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York in 2002.[4] After serving as an assistant rabbi in Buffalo, New York, she joined Temple SinaiinOakland, California in 2005.[5] She was chosen as the first female senior rabbi of Temple Sinai in January 2015.[6] She has four children, aged twenty, eighteen, fifteen, and twelve, as of January 2022.[6]
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