Ray Frank's position in American Jewry
was truly a novel one. In 1890, she became
the first Jewish woman to preach formally
from a pulpit in the United States,
inaugurating a career as "the Girl Rabbi
of the Golden West" that would help to
blaze new paths for women in Judaism.
Virtually overnight, Frank became a sensation
in the Jewish world, and she would remain so
for nearly a decade.
