Dianne Feinstein, a 'woman of valor'

SAN FRANCISCO (J. Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) - Dianne Feinstein was an eshet chayil, the Hebrew term for a woman of valor, Rabbi Jonathan Singer proclaimed in his opening remarks at a memorial service for the U.S. senator who died Sept. 29 at 90.

The event outside San Francisco City Hall was attended by about 1,500 invited guests, all gathered to remember a pathbreaking politician who spent a decade as the city's first woman mayor.

Singer, the co-senior rabbi of Congregation Emanu-El - the same synagogue where Feinstein, then Dianne Goldman, was confirmed as a teenager in 1949...