Joy as Dina Brawer becomes Britain’s first female Orthodox rabbi

Dina Brawer has become Britain’s first female Orthodox rabbi.

She will be known as Rabba Dina after Rabbi Dr Daniel Sperber signed her semicha certificate in London following a two-hour exam on Monday.

Rabba Dina has spent four years taking part in the Orthodox women’s ordination programme at Yeshivat Maharat in New York.

She told the JC she had first considered studying to become a rabbi in 2013.