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We explore ways of keeping our
eternal values while being open
to the needs of our congrega-
tion," says Rabbi Spectre. "We
must not lose sight of what's et-
ernally Jewish and what's con-
temporarily Jewish."
But some Conservative Jewish
women say the. more liberal
synagogues place too much em-
phasis on people's apparent
"needs." One of them is Marcia
Harris, a member of Cong. Beth
Achim, perhaps the area's most
traditional Conservative
synagogue. She says the
changes some liberal congrega-
tions are adopting to encourage
women's participation are in-
tended "to bring in members;
they seem to be trying to please
everyone."
Rabbis like A. Irving Schnip-
per of Cong. Beth Abraham
Hillel Moses, whose congrega-
tion has made a few gradual
changes toward women's par-
ticipation, (such as permitting
an all-women's service) is one of
the traditionalists, like Beth
Achim's Rabbi Milton Arm.
Rabbi Schnipper says he acts
out of his own sense of what's
fitting. "I don't believe in
change for the sake of change,"
he says. If a synagogue member
questions him on a point of wor-
ship, his policy is to explain
what Jewish law says, while
remaining open to the possibil-
ity of change if warranted.
Beth Abraham Hillel Moses
probably would be considered a
more traditional Conservative
synagogue. Women do not join a
minyan here and Rabbi Schnip-
per is firm that they won't any
time soon. There are Bat
Mitzvah observances on Satur-
day mornings but girls are not
called to the Torah. Rabbi
Schnipper says he will continue
his policy of moving slowly on
women's participation. At his
congregation, he explains, "no
one is really pushing for it (wo-
men's equality). There are no
`synagogue libbers' here."
Is there a frivolous, "bra bur-
ners" aspect to the women who
want to share religious leader-
ship with men? Batia Eizikovic,
principal of United Hebrew
Schools for both Beth Achim
and B'nai Moshe, offers • the
opinion that if women "mean
what they are saying about
wanting to follow the Com-
mandments, why not?" She sees
no reason to doubt their mo-
tives.
Other Jewishly-active women,
strongly committed to equal
treatment, take issue with their
longtime second class status in
Judaism. Joan Provizer, a
member of Cong. Shaarey
Zedek, longs to be counted in a
minyan, saying, "I can doyen as
well as any of the men." But she
says the men. Bee being counted
in a minyan as one of the last
rights they'll willingly give up.
Another older woman says wist-
fully: "If I ,'were younger, I
might have wanted to become a
cantor."
Someone who might enjoy the
label of "synagogue libber,"
however, is Provizer's mother,
longtime Cong. Shaarey Zedek
member Vivian Berry. Acting
independently over a period of
years, she said she encouraged
Rabbi Irwin Groner and others
to perniit' Bat Mitzvah on
Saturday mornings, when the
Torah is brought out, rather
than on Friday nights. Berry is•
proud of Shaarey Zedek's B'not
Mitzvah class for adult women,
which graduated 33 last year. A
second crop of students, many of
whom never had a Jewish edu-
cation, will become Bat Mitzvah
next Shavuot, Berry says.
"Women's rights have come to
Shaarey Zedek as an evolutio-
nary process," says •erry. "Un-
like some synagogues, women
here are given the honor of
2.1iyah." She adds that by the
same process of evolution, her
opinion is that women will be
counted in a minyan at Shaarey
Zedek one day. Berry looks for-
ward to that time:
"When I go to the synagogue
for yahrzeit ... it's not unusual
for me to show up on the dot
and have to wait for a tenth
man for a minyan though I am
the tenth Jew.'
Another woman, a member of
Cong, B'nai Moshe who asked
not to be identified, says women
there are permitted to join an
"We could solve our
problem very expeditiously
by saying that many of the
things which offended
K'vod Hatxibbur in
Talmudic times no longer
offend us."
occasional all-women's minyan
only. Her synagogue also held a
separate women's service on
Simchat. Torah and Chanukah
this year, which she felt. good
about.
Women are second-class citi-
zens at the traditional, male-
oriented Simchat Torah celebra-
tion, she says. (The men on
Simchat Torah, dancing with
the richly-covered Torah scrolls,
have been compared to brideg-
rooms dancing with their brides
— an image that makes it dif-
ficult for some Jews to see
women in the role of Torah
bearer. Yet in 1976, the Jewish
Theological Seminary said
women could be permitted to
participate in the Shevah
hakafot, the traditional parade
of the Torahs on Simchat To-
rah.) The B'nai Moshe woman