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Honorees at the Jewish Theological Seminary dinner are, from left:
Philip Langwald, William Feldman and Joseph Jackier.
Women's ordination as rabbis
in the Conservative movement
came about as an "evolutionary
change" and not a "revolution-
ary action," according to Rabbi
Simon Greenberg, vice chancel-
lor of the Jewish Theological
Seminary.
Speaking last week in an
interview with The Jewish
News, prior to a scheduled ap-
pearance at the annual semi-
nary dinner at Cong. Shaarey
Zedek, Rabbi Greenberg said
that women's involvement at
the seminary came - about long
before the decision to allow
them to be ordained as Conser-
vative rabbis.
Rabbi Greenberg, who became
ill prior to the dinner and was
replaced as the guest speaker by
Rabbi Yaakov Rosenberg of the
seminary, said that Henrietta
Szold had studied at the semi-
nary and • early in this century
women were members of the fa-
culty. He said the role of women
at the JTS has been increasing
since the days of its second
president Rabbi Solomon
Schechter.
Rabbi Greenberg added that
no member of the faculty ever
censured women for wearing
talit and tefilin, and when they
said Kaddish, they received the
same respect as men who did
the same.
"Women, at least for the last
ten years, would join the service
every morning and put on talit
and tefilin. It was something
they themselves wanted.
"It wasn't a revolutionary
thing for us to have women who
are observant, and who wore
talit and tefilin and who studied
Talmud and who became very
adept in it and teach in our
school. So it wasn't a great revo-
lutionary thing. It was an evolu-
tionary rather than a revolu-
tionary action."
Rabbi Greenberg added that
the world's view of women,
which is reflected in the
Halachah, is based on four prin-
ciples: "the general proposition
that women are intellectually
inferior; the general proposition
that the place of the woman was
in the home; the general pro-
position that the woman is sub-
servient to her husband; and the
general proposition that she is a
seductive element and therefore
man should be protected from
her seduction."
He added that "these four
principles today are not princi-
ples that I think we are ready to
enforce. Certainly the position of
the woman today in the western
world is altogether different."
On the topic of patrilineal de-
scent, Rabbi Greenberg was
adamantly opposed, saying, in
effect, that it promoted inter-
faith marriage.
The president of the Founda-
tion for Conservative Judaism
in Israel, Rabbi Greenberg said
that the movement is making
great strides in the Jewish
state. He said in 1972, there
were only five Conservative
congregations in Israel. Today,
there are about 40. The move-
ment, with funds from the sem-
inary and the Rabbinical As-
sembly, is helping to build hos-
pitals and universities, as well
as looking after the spiritual life
of the people.
The fund-raising dinner also
was the occasion to pay tribute
to benefactors and others who
have worked on behalf of the
seminary. A special tribute was
made to Sharon Hart "for her
devotion to the seminary and
the Conservative movement."
Joseph H. Jackier and Lawrence
S. Jackier of Cong. Shaarey
Zedek, William Feldman of
Cong. B'nai Moshe and Philip
Langwald of Adat Shalom
Synagogue were saluted as the
evening's guests of honor. The
young Jackier was unable to ac-
cept his award due to illness.
The vice chancellor for de-
velopment, Rabbi Rosenberg
called on the assembly to con-
tinue its support of the semi-
nary. He alluded to increasing
enrollment. "We are so suc-
cessful we can't turn people
away."
He called the approaching
centenary of the institution "a
celebration and occasion for re-
newal,"