Dianne Cohler-Esses Content type Biography Blog Encyclopedia Article Lesson Plan Oral History Podcast Collection We Remember This Week in History The Feminist Revolution Women Rabbis Women of Valor Power Couples Soviet Jewry Baltimore DC Katrina Seattle Western Pioneers Dianne Cohler-Esses As the first woman rabbi from the Syrian community, Dianne Cohler-Esses has used teaching to open up new possibilities for others. http://jwa.org/rabbis/narrators/cohler-esses-dianne Dianne Cohler-Esses Dianne Cohler-Esses broke new ground as not only the first woman from the Syrian-Jewish community to become a rabbi, but also the first non-Orthodox rabbi from that community. http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/cohler-esses-dianne Dianne Cohler-Esses Jewish feminism provided the bridge from one shore to the other. http://jwa.org/feminism/cohler-esses-dianne