Less than two years after she arrived in Greenville, North Carolina as the world's first black female rabbi, Rabbi Alysa Stanton is leaving her current position, the Worldwide Religious News website reports today (January 25, 2011).
Stanton won the center of international media attention when a small Jewish congregation picked her as its leader in 2009. But the Board of Congregation Bayt Shalom recently voted not to renew her two-year contract.
Samantha Pilot, president of the congregation -- which is affiliated with both Reform and Conservative branches of American Judaism -- would only say that Stanton "wasn't a good fit for the congregation."
Stanton, whose contract expires July 31, 2011, did not specify what she would do, but said she may stay in North Carolina.
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