pagesofpins's review against another edition
4.0
I love that Regina Jonas, while continuing to apply for the test as the first female rabbi, didn't wait for ordination or approval to act as a rabbi in her community, and later, in a concentration camp to those who needed it most. What a cool person.
debz57a52's review
4.0
As I did not grow up Jewish, I did not know that female Rabbis were only a recent development in the Jewish faith. Consequently, I learned a lot by reading this story of Rabbi Regina Jonas's story. I fell in love with her commitment to her calling, her efforts to do the job without the title, and her ability to shelve other people's expectations. As the book ends with her eventual success with the test to be a rabbi in the 1940s, but doesn't expand from there, I feared the worst. I'm grateful for the author's note at the end about what happened to Regina after the end of the picture book - information that a child might not find inspirational or comforting at a young age, when their adults might hoping they simply focus on the character of Regina Jonas.
wildemoose's review against another edition
3.0
I appreciate the inspirational story that Rabbi Sasso is telling here, but the ending is falsely positive considering Rabbi Regina Jonas died in Auschwitz only a few years after her ordination. I would not read this to a kid who wasn’t old enough to have that hard conversation.
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