Career
This makes her the first Russian-born woman to be a rabbi in the former Soviet Union. She was born in Saint St. Petersburg, Russia, and received her rabbinical ordination at the Leo Baeck College in London in 1999. She was a rabbi in Belarus for five years, the first female rabbi to serve there.
She later returned to Russia and worked as a rabbi in Moscow.
In 2006 she officiated at what is believed to be Russia"s first Jewish same-sex commitment ceremony, which led to Russia"s largest Jewish group, Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, asking the Jewish Russian community to boycott Reform Jews.
