Alina Treiger

Alina Treiger (born March 8, 1979, Poltava, Ukraine) is the first female rabbi to be ordained in Germany since World War II.

Treiger, who identified as a religious Jew from a young age, joined the local congregation in her teens.

In 2002, through the WUPJ, Treiger enrolled at the Abraham Geiger College of the University of Potsdam for her rabbinical studies.

[6] Her ordination was held at Berlin's Pestalozzistrasse Synagogue, and attended by Christian Wulff, then president of Germany, and Jewish leaders from around the world.

She worked primarily with the Russian-speaking Jewish immigrants in the city of Oldenburg and the nearby town of Delmenhorst until September 2024, when she became the rabbi of the liberal community in Hamburg.