THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, April 6, 1919
68
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Women Are Reported Actively Seeking the Rabbinate,
But Temples Do Not Seek Women Rabbis for Pulpits
man, a fifth-year rabbinical
student at the Reform
(Copyright 1979, JTA, Inc.)
NEW YORK — The grow- movement's Hebrew Union
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ing number of American College-Jewish Institute of
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women studying for the Religion, that the reaction
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pit frequently a rocky one.
Miss Perman said she
A number of them re-
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does
not allow such nega-
ported
their
experiences
in
From
the March issue of the Bnai tive reactions to deter her,
Brith National Jewish though she is sick and tire$
Monthly. Carolyn Yalkut, of hearing about women in
Designs
an assistant editor, reported the rabbinate. Ms. Yalkut
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she was told by Sara Per- reported that sarcasm and
sexist remarks are not dis-
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suading the other women
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studying for the rabbinate ,
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but the slurs do hurt.
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four were reported now
holding pulpits. Some 75
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Philadelphia.
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Miss Perman, a Goucher
Friends and Relatives
College
graduate who was
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Mr. and Mrs. Asa Shapiro and Family
did not hear: "A woman
rabbi. I've never met a
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BESSINGER'S
third-year student at HUC
in Cincinnati, said she con-
sidered such responses
natural and that "it doesn't
bother me." But it does
bother Reconstructionist
candidate Ruth Sanberg,
who said "I'm not a 'woman
rabbi' or 'lady rabbi' but a
rabbi." She added " 'Rabbi'
doesn't mean 'man.' "
Miss Abramson said she
believed that the woman
rabbi will be accepted and
that all she has to do is do
her job. She declared that
"People are more likely to
accept you if you do some-
thing" without making "a
big deal out of it." She said
she did not expect to be ac-
cepted by Orthodox Jews
but "the people whom I
want to accept me, and
whom I need to be accepted
by, are not traditional
Jews."
But while Reform and
Reconstructionist sem-
inaries are welcom-
ing women as rabbinical
candidates, this does not
mean that their congre-
gations will provide them
with, pulpits. The Bnai
Brith editor reported that
when some congrega-
tions approach the rab-
binical schools for rab-
bis, they specify men
rabbis.
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Students Are Taking Sides
on Ordination of Women
By REENA FRIEDMAN
(Copyright 1979, JTA, Inc.)
NEW YORK — Some 50
people, most of them stu-
dents in the various schools
of the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America in
New York, turned out for
the first meeting of a new
seminary-based organiza-
tion, GROW (Group for the
Rabbinical Ordination of
Women). The meeting fea-
tured addresses by two
vocal proponents of
women's ordination and
marked the beginning of
active student involvement
in the seminary debate over
women's ordination.
George Nudell, a student
at the Seminary and a
member of GROW's steer-
ing committee, announced
that the organization aims
to educate students regard-
ing the issues involved in
the Seminary debate, and to
serve as a political action
group as well. GROW is
planning a series of public
study sessions which will
explore the major halakhic,
ethical and social questions
associated with women's
ordination.
Eventually, the organiza-
tion's leaders hope to create
a forum within which they
might discuss these issues
with members of the Semi-
nary faculty. Finally, they
intend to encourage laymen
who favor women's ordina-
tion to contact the Seminary
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"Senate" in order to make
their views known.
Acting upon recom-
mendations made by the
Commission for the Study of
the Ordination of Women as
Rabbis, the faculty mem-
bers comprising the Senate
are currently deliberating
the issue, and expect to ar-
rive at a final decision
within the next three
months.
While it seems clear
that the majority of Sem-
inary students do sup-
port women's ordination,
a significant number,
largely Rabbinical
School students, are op-
posed on various
halakhic, political and
sociological grounds.
The Commission report
had stated that 74 per-
cent of the Seminary's
Rabbinical School stu-
dent body approved the
ordination of women, ac-
cording to a recent sur-
vey conducted by the
student government.
However, on Feb. 12, a
letter which stated their
"opposition to women's or-
dination at the present
time" was signed by 23 rab-
binical students and sent to
Chancellor Gerson Cohen.
Those who circulated the
letter maintain that an
additional 11 students sup-
ported the letter, but were
hesitant about making
their positions known.
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Where do they go if pul-
pits are closed to them? •
Rabbi Rebecca Alpert, the
Reconstructionist Rabbini-
AM-
Pell, a fourth-year student
at the Reconstructionist
school.
cal College student affairs
director, reported they go
into Jewish communal
work., such as Bnai Brith
Hillel Foundations, or
Jewish education. But be-
cause they are women, they
generally are offered
smaller salaries than male
rabbis, according to Hava
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