Floriane Chinsky


Floriane Chinsky, was born in Paris in 1974. In 2005 she was ordained as a rabbi at the Schechter Institute in Jerusalem; the same year she received a Ph.D. in sociology of law, with a thesis studying the social representations of Jewish law in France.She became Belgium's first female rabbi in 2005 at Beth Hillel, Brussels’ Reform congregation. In 2010 she became the rabbi at the Masorti congregation, Neve Shalom, in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, and in 2013 became a rabbi at the Liberal Jewish Movement of France in Paris. She is the third woman to become a rabbi in France.