THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, April 6, 1919 68 Passover Greetings ADVANCE GLOVE MFG. CO . 901 W. Lafayette 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 HAPPY PASSOVER ing number of American College-Jewish Institute of AUTO CITY women studying for the Religion, that the reaction GLASS CO. rabbinate -- all of them is not merely "What's a nice Auto Glass Installed under Reform and Recon- Jewish girl like you, a Insuranbe Work Glass Tops — Mirrors structionist auspices — are • rabbi?" but sharper reac- 16431 W. 7 Mile Rd. finding the route to the pul- tions like, "Women rabbis Detroit, Mich. 48235 VE 8-5745 — feh!" pit frequently a rocky one. Miss Perman said she A number of them re- Passover Greetings 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 23535 Woodward. Ferndale she was told by Sara Per- reported that sarcasm and sexist remarks are not dis- Happy Passover to suading the other women Our Relatives and Friends PASSOVER GREETINGS studying for the rabbinate , EIDELMAN BROS. but the slurs do hurt. BLUESTEIN BROS. INC. Since the first woman Dealers in Scrap Materials Whole Floor Coverings 3195 BELLVUE was ordained an Ameri- 26390 Van Born Rd., WA 2-2720 can rabbi in 1972, only Dearborn Heights four were reported now holding pulpits. 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By BEN GALLOB WO 2-3444 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. 1. , A Happy and Healthy Passover G CITY SMOKED FISH CO. Detroit, Michigan A Very Healthy and Happy Passover • to the :Jewish Community FIELD'S EMPLOYMENT TR 3-7770 r Sincerest Passover Greetings HOA KOW INN Chinese and American Restaurant Specializing in Cantonese Foods 13715 West 9 Mile. IL INest of Coolidge, Oak Park LI 7 -466 R LAFAYE1TE STEEL CORPORATION Extends Its Heartfelt Best Wishes for a Happy Passover 3600 North Military, Detroit 894-4552 Holiday Greetings STUDIO FLOWER VIC ZUCKERMAN 13516 Second Ave. at Davison 868-8442 Detroit, Michigan 48203 HAPPY PASSOVER From Your 7 Mile - Greenfield OLDSMOBILE DEALER WOODRUFF OLDSMOBILE `Still Superior Service" 15000 W. 7 Mile Rd. 342-7000 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 11111 , 1 , 1 "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. 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