Chana Timoner

Biography:

Chana Timoner was the first female rabbi to hold an active duty assignment as a chaplain in the U. S. Army which she began in 1993. She was born in New Haven Connecticut. Her mother had joined the Canadian Army to fight in World War II in 1940 a year before the United States entered the war and in 1941 her mother transferred to the newly organized Women's Army Corps of the United States.