Awards and Honors
In 1973, Priesand was awarded an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from Florida International University.
In 1997, she received an honorary doctor of divinity degree from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR). In the same year, the Rabbi Sally J. Priesand Visiting Professorship in Jewish Women's Studies was established in her honor at HUC-JIR.
On April 23, 2009, she received the prestigious Elizabeth Blackwell Award given by Hobart and William Smith Colleges in (Geneva, New York) to women whose life exemplify outstanding service to humanity. The award is named after Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910), the first woman in America to receive the Doctor of Medicine degree.
In 2010, in honor of its 125th anniversary, Good Housekeeping magazine named her one of “125 women who changed our world”.
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