About Sigma Faye Coran
Lived 1966 – 2020 (aged 54). Sigma Faye Coran was an American rabbi.
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. 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.
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American rabbi (1966-2020)
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Sigma Faye Coran was born on 23 March 1966.
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Sigma Faye Coran died on 8 May 2020.
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