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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."