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Moderator Matilda Rubin introduced Rabbi Goldberg, left, and •
Rabbi Nelson.
Rabbi Goldberg expounded the
The Conservative Movement's
decision in 1910 to allow mixed Orthcidox view that women, as
the last creation of God when
seating of men and women in its
synagogues led to the ordination He evolved the world, are
of women rabbis in the 1980s. closest to God. He quoted bibli-
Those decisions said Rabbi cal and rabbinic sources citing
David Nelson of Cong. Beth the natural spirituality of
Shalom, were based on exhaust- women which exempt women
ing Jewish scholarship and the from the lengthy list of Jewish
evolution of Halachah, Jewish duties required of men.
"Brit milah (circumcision) is
law.
"Bending Halachah for social given to a man and it makes
expediency," countered Rabbi him spiritually complete, a
Elimelech Goldberg of Young Is- status automatically achieved at
rael of Southfield, "has only led, birth by a woman," the rabbi
historically, to the downfall of said. "All of the spirituality of
women is inward."
the Jewish people of the lime."
The woman's role is in the
Those opposing viewpoints on
the flexibility of Halachah are home, he said. "Women have
at the cornerstone of the age-old never needed a synagogue to
differences between the Reform, speak to GodxWomen are
Conservative and Orthodox exempt from praying at specific
movements within Judaism. But times, but they are not exempt
Monday night's meeting of Rab- from prayer."
Quoting an anthropologist,
bis Nelson and Goldberg, the
second session in the Rabbi Goldberg said, "Equality
Midrasha-College of Jewish of rights do not require identity
Studies' series on "Unity Within of function."
During the question-and-
Diversity," served to educate the
audience on the opposing views.
answer period, Al Colman,
Rabbi Nelson gave a lengthy whose daughter Jill Colman
lecture on the evolution of ritu- Ruskin was ordained as a Re-
als for women within the Con- form rabbi three years ago,
servative Movement: mixed sea- chastized Rabbi Goldberg for a
ting, equal, education, the bat statement he, made inferring
mitzvah ceremony, women's that Jews who had changed
aliyot, reading from the Torah Halachah in 'compliance with
and ordination of women.
the Emancipaton in Europe had
These changes, he said, are died in the Holocaust.
the result of "deep and profound
Colman said the descendants
study" of Halachah by the rab- of both streams of thought
binical Assembly's Committee "went into the ovens side by
on Law and Standards, "and are side." He asked Goldberg if his
not the result of a passing fad. daughter, now a rabbi in the
They are the result of century- Baltimore area, was -not leading
long changes." The Conservative "a Jewish life" because of her
'Movement bases changes in ordination.
Halachah on the concept that
"I would tell her there is an-
biblical concepts within the law other route," Rabbi Goldberg re-
cannot be changed; but.rabbinic sponded. "It is a heroic one, an
concepts can be. '
historic one that she has not
Rabbi Goldberg, who is secre- explored." Responding to an-
tary of the Council of Orthodox other question on whether Rabbi
Rabbis of Greater Detroit
argued that "no generation has the Orthodox, Rabbi Goldberg
questioned Halachah in the way Ruskin
is considered
that she Jewish
is part by
of
•answered
it has been questioned in the Klal Yisrael "as much as I am.
last few generations." He called' But I don't think she is fulfilling
the Conservative decisions "out her Jewish obligations as fully
of line" with traditional as she could be."
i 'Attie Tanzman asked Ra.
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