Ágnes Vető Vassar College · Yeshivat Maharat
Masthead of an Orthodox Jewish weekly newspaper printed on aged tan paper: a stylized cursive Latin-script title 'Hoemesz' arches across the page beneath a long shooting-comet flourish; rising sun rays radiate from the upper left, and a Hebrew banner above reads ‘שלח ורכב על דבר אמת’ ('ride forth on behalf of truth') with the title הָאֱמֶת in square Hebrew letters at right; below in Hungarian, ‘Orthodox zsidó hetilap’ (Orthodox Jewish weekly), with masthead data noting Cluj–Turda, Tishrei 1, 5694 / 21 September 1933, Year I, issues 1–2, price 10 Lei, and editorial details for editor Vilmos Moskovits.
Hoemesz (הָאֱמֶת — “The Truth”) — masthead of the inaugural double issue of an Orthodox Jewish weekly published in Cluj–Turda, Transylvania. Year I, nos. 1–2 · 1 Tishrei 5694 / 21 September 1933.
Media

Media & Press

Coverage of Dr. Vető’s ordination as the first Hungarian-born Orthodox woman rabbi, and notices of her scholarly and communal work.

Press

June 4, 2020

Mazsihisz · Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities

An Epoch-Making Moment in the Life of Hungarian Jewry: Exceptional Rabbis

“A new chapter in the history of Hungarian Jewry will begin in a few days in New York. Dr. Ágnes Vető, a Hungarian-born lecturer at Vassar College and a graduate of the Open Orthodox Yeshivat Maharat, which provides rabbinical training for women, will be ordained as an Orthodox religious leader. The inauguration of the first Hungarian Orthodox female religious leader can unequivocally be termed an exceptional historical event.”

June 8, 2020

Kibic Magazin

Unprecedented Ordination of First Hungarian Female Rabbi

“Two female rabbis of Hungarian descent will be ordained soon, and a Hungarian female rabbinical student from New York is cited in The Jewish Week’s ‘36 Under 36’ listing of Jewish communal leaders. According to the news published on mazsihisz.hu, a new chapter in the history of Hungarian Jewish religion will begin in a few days in New York.”

Yeshivat Maharat

2020

Yeshivat Maharat · Ordination Profile

Rabbanit Dr. Agi Veto

Maharat’s official profile of Rabbanit Vető among the 2020 musmakhot (ordained). Maharat is the first yeshiva to ordain Orthodox Jewish women as spiritual, legal, and halakhic leaders. Its graduates serve in pulpits, classrooms, and courts of Jewish law around the world.

At Vassar

2024

Vassar College News

Award-Winning Director of Jewish Studies Nurtures Students of All Backgrounds

A Vassar profile of Marc Michael Epstein on the occasion of his Maimonides Award, with extended discussion of the Jewish Studies program he and Ági Vető have built together — and of the nurturing they have provided to Vassar students across the full range of backgrounds and commitments.

2025

Vassar College News

Vassar Goes to the Source Over Spring Break

A dispatch from the Vassar Religion Department’s Spring 2025 travel seminar to Spain, in which Dr. Vető was among the faculty guiding students through Toledo, Cordoba, Granada, and Madrid — a continuation of the “go to the source” tradition she and Professor Epstein have built over fifteen years of travel seminars across Jewish Europe.