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school. It's not the kind
of profession a lot of
Orthodox girls would be
able to handle."
Her parents encour-
aged her, though Dr.
Snider believes this
might be partially due to
ignorance about what
medical school actually
entailed. "How many
Orthodox parents would
want their nice Orthodox
Jewish daughter to skin
a cadaver?" she asks.
Fifteen years earlier,
medicine was not an
option for Dr. Snider's
sister. "My parents
strongly discouraged her
from doing it, because in
those days it just wasn't
that common for women,
and especially not
Orthodox women," she
says. She reflects on the
implications of her sis-
ter's decision to become a
teacher: "She really
would have been a good
doctor."
The shift in her par-
ents' attitudes illustrates
how career options for
both Orthodox and non-
Orthodox women have
evolved over the past two
decades.
Rabbi Shimansky has
witnessed the trend over
the course of his own
career. The 53-year-old
educator says that as it
has become more accept-
able for women to work
outside the home in the
secular and non-
Orthodox communities,
it has also become more
acceptable in many
Orthodox circles.
Rabbi
Elimelech
Goldberg of Young Israel
of Southfield explains

that Judaism has never
said women should not
work. "The Talmud is
very sensitive to the idea
of women saying (to their
husbands), 'You don't
have to work to support
me.'"
This tenet has been
used to justify the prac-
tice of Orthodox women
working to support their
families while their hus-
bands study religious
texts, but it can also be
applied to modern two-
income families, Rabbi
Goldberg says.
Halachically, Rabbi
Goldberg says, a wo-
man's only real obliga-
tion is to raise her fami-
ly. But , he adds, the
same holds true for men.
He stresses that Jews —
both men and women —
are not defined so much
by what they do in the
workplace as by what
they do in the home.
Dr. Snider agrees.
"Perhaps the Orthodox
view of (motherhood)
being the most valuable
job you can do is right,"
she says. "That's why I
work part time." Still,
she enjoys her work, and
would not consider giv-
ing up her professional
ties to the non-Orthodox
and non-Jewish commu-
nities.
College marked Dr.
Snider's first major foray
into the secular world. It
was a far cry from the
sheltered community
where she'd grown up
and from her all-girls'
high school.
After receiving a
Bachelor of Arts degree
from Wayne State