Priesand, Sally Jane (1946– )

US rabbi. She was ordained a Reform rabbi in 1972, the first woman to be so ordained in the USA. She was named rabbi of Temple Beth El in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and went to the Monmouth Reform Temple, Tinton Falls, New Jersey, in 1981. Active in many civic and religious organizations, she wrote Judaism and the New Woman (1975).

Priesand was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She earned a BA from the University of Cincinnati and an MA from Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati.