"Many decrees of our sages were withdrawn, as we earlier have seen; particularly concerning this kind of tsni’ut, they lose much of their severity."
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Regina Jonas
Regina Jonas (August 1902 – October or December 1944) was a Berlin-born rabbi. In 1935, she became the first woman in history to be ordained as a rabbi. She died while interred in the Auschwitz concentration camp in the winter of 1944.
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