Source: Syracuse.com
Wire Service: AP
http://www.syracuse.com/religion/index.ssf?/base/national-29/1246178457256780.xml&storylist=religion
Every week for four years, Nina Perlmutter has been taking a shuttle bus from Prescott to Phoenix and catching a flight to Los Angeles in time to attend rabbinical classes Sunday through Tuesday, returning to Prescott late Tuesday night.
By the end of June, the total will be 144 round trips, with 288 flights for Perlmutter.
"The truth is I didn't come the farthest, but I have the longest commute," said Perlmutter, a Prescott resident for 24 years. "There are folks flying in from Denver and Albuquerque, but they live in cities where the airport is."
After completing her studies at the Academy for Jewish Religion California, located at the Yitzhak Rabin Hillel Center at UCLA, she was ordained as a rabbi May 25 at a Los Angeles synagogue.
Perlmutter is Flagstaff's first ordained female rabbi and only the second female rabbi in northern Arizona. Rabbi Alicia Magal serves the Sedona and Verde Valley communities.