Lia Bass
Lia Bass is a Brazilian-born American rabbi and the second Latin American female rabbi in the world. She is also Northern Virginia's first female Conservative
rabbi and the first woman from Brazil to be ordained as a rabbi. She was born in Rio de Janeiro, and was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York in 1994. In 2001 she became the rabbi of Congregation Etz Hayim in Fairfax, Virginia.
