About Katalin Kelemen
Born 1951. Katalin Kelemen is a Hungarian rabbi.
Katalin Kelemen is the first female rabbi in Hungary, where she was born. She studied for the rabbinate at Leo Baeck College in England, and was ordained in 1998. On March 7, 1999, she was inducted as the rabbi of the Sim Shalom Progressive Jewish Congregation in Budapest, Hungary. In 1999 she also attended a conference sponsored by , a Jewish women's initiative founded in 1998.
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first female rabbi in Hungary
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Katalin Kelemen was born in 1951 in Budapest.
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Katalin Kelemen is Hungarian.
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