Background
She was born in Jerusalem and immigrated to America when she was eleven years old.
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Tehilla Lichtenstein
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Education
Columbia University.
Career
Her parents were Hava (Cohen) and Rabbi Haim Hirshenson. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Classics from Hunter College and an Master of Arts degree in literature from Columbia University. Thus Tehilla became the first Jewish American woman to serve as the spiritual leader of an ongoing Jewish congregation.
lieutenant was entitled “The Power of Thought.” According to the New York Times, which gave a brief notice to the event, over five hundred people attended this sermon.
She continued to preach from the pulpit until 1972. She gave over five hundred sermons in all.
Her papers, known as the Tehilla Lichtenstein Papers, are now held at the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati, Ohio.
