DENVER (KDVR) — On Friday, two women made history in both the Denver and the national Jewish communities. They were installed as the senior rabbis at Temple Emanuel, marking multiple firsts for the congregation.

Rabbis Elizabeth Sacks and Emily Hyatt are now the first women to be senior rabbis of the congregation, and it also marks the first time in the temple’s history they’ve had a collaborative rabbinic partnership and the second in U.S. history that a senior rabbi partnership has been two women.

Both of them feel grateful for the opportunity to lead the congregation into the future.

“We are only the eighth senior rabbis to take over the congregation in 151 years," Hyatt said.

The congregation is two years older than Colorado has been a state. While women have been installed as rabb

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