Tanya Segal

Tanya Segal (born 1957) an Israeli rabbi, is the first full-time female rabbi in Poland and the first female rabbi in the Czech Republic. Segal is also a professional theatrical director, actress, singer and guitar player.

Biography Segal was born in USSR (Moscow) in 1957. She made Aliyah to Israel in 1990, and was ordained to a rabbi in 2007 at the Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem (HUC). In 2006, her play And Her Name Was Heather was first performed, at the Hebrew Union College campus; it combines a commentary on the Book of Ruth with the story of American convert Tamar (Heather) Havilio. In December 2007, she became the second rabbi (senior rabbi Burt Schuman) of Beit Warszawa congregation in Warsaw. Since August 2019, she is a rabbi of the Jewish Community of Ostrava, Czech Republic.

Other The 2022 art exhibit “Holy Sparks”, shown among other places at the Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, featured art about twenty-four female rabbis who were firsts in some way; Linda Soberman created the artwork about Segal that was in that exhibit.