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RELIGION
Conservative Rabbi
Just Doing Her Job
• PEGGY ISAAK GLUCK
Special to The Jewish News
an Francisco — Leslie
lexander, 31, grew
up knowing she
wanted to be a Conservative
rabbi, even though the
movement's ordination of
women wasn't even on the
horizon then.
Her persistence paid off.
Alexander, the first woman
to serve with a major Con-
servative congregation in the
United States, led her first
service as assistant rabbi of
one of the country's largest
Conservative synagogues
Congregation Adat Ari El in
North Hollywood, Calif., in
the Los Angeles environs,
which has over 1,000
member-families.
Alexander received a Re-
form ordination at the He-
brew Union College-Jewish
Institute of Religion in New
York in 1983. She had taken
pre-rabbinic courses at the
University of Judaism in Los
Angeles, the west coast
branch of the Conservative
Jewish Theological Seminary
of America.
When she enrolled there,
she knew the ordination of
women rabbis "was not some-
thing that would happen
overnight," she said. In fact,
the Conservative movement
started ordaining women just
last year.
A fifth-generation rabbi,
Alexander's views of Judaism
go back to her childhood, to
parents and a grandfather-
rabbi who instilled in her
both a love of religion and
the notion of taking risks for
what she believes in.
Alexander described her
father, who was ordained at
the Berlin Seminary, an Or-
thodox rabbinical institute,
as a humanitarian for whom
"there does not seem to be a
difference as a rabbi or a per-
son."
Her grandfather, the late
Rabbi Hugo Alexander, also
ordained at the Berlin Semi-
nary, saw Leslie's dream
through more traditional
eyes. "He put up some kind of
arguments about women
being called to the Torah,
and wasn't always positive,"
she said.
"He did not live to see my
ordination, but lived to see
my fight. I'll never forget the
day I first read Torah at
B'nai Emunah. I was nervous
because he was there and
nervous about what he'd
think. As I walked off the
bimah (pulpit), I saw tears in
his eyes."
Rabbi Theodore Alexander
said he "kvells'? in his daugh-
ter's new position, insisting,
"I'm not reacting as a father,
but as a Conservative rabbi. I
agree with Rabbi Kassel
Abelson (president of the
Conservative Rabbinical As-
sembly) that this is a tre-
mendous historical step for-
SA
Rabbi Leslie Alexander:
a fifth-generation rabbi.
ward. Hopefully, because
Adat Ari El is not afraid of
an innovation or being a
pioneer, they might have
paved the. way for many
other outstanding rabbis who
are female, which is only in-
cidental." .
The younger Alexander
hopes that the label "female
rabbi" will be dropped. There
are about 130 women or-
dained as rabbis, all Reform
but for four ordained by the
Conservative movement. Two
of the four have pulpits,
though considerably smaller
than Alexander's.
"I don't have a chip on my
shoulder because I'm a
woman," she stressed. "Last
week I went to a Women's
League meeting and spoke to
them that I am serving the
whole congregation. I don't
want to run away from being
a woman, nor do I think that
it needs to be stressed, but I
do know what it has to do.
with a rabbinical position.
I'm there to do a job, to be
a rabbi."
Copyright 1986, Jewish
Telegraphic Agency
`Today I Am
A Dramamine'
New York — Jason, Jennifer -
and Robin Guterman, children
of real estate tycoon Gerald
Guterman, celebrated their
b'nai mitzvah on the cruise
ship Queen Elizabeth II. The
600 guests stayed in the ship's
300 choicest cabins and were
attended by the crew of 1,000.
According to a Cunard Line
official, similar overnight
cruises, including food, have
cost about half a million dol-
lars.
"In a home that has every-
thing," Rabbi Arthur Schneier
told those gathered for the cel-
ebration, "Linda and Gerry
also stress to their children
that which gives us purpose in
life."