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WOMEN page 1

Liberman, a 1992 JTS gradu-
be difficult for some women I I
ate, calls "a lcishke issue.' " A
find pulpits, but she believe
synagogue may say it is com-
the problem will be worke
pletely egalitarian, but sug-
out over time.
gest a female rabbinic
"A lot of shuls say spec
candidate and suddenly the
cally that they want men
congregation gets queasy, she
says Rabbi Brown, who w
says.
ordained last year. This is el
Ms. Gottfried believes a pol-
pecially true in congregatio
icy could make the difference.
with mostly older memb4
"We can't regulate emotions,"
anxious about change. "0,
she says. "We can regulate ac-
course they won't suddenly ld
tions."
open to female rabbis."
Rabbinical Assembly ad-
But it isn't just synagogu
ministrators acknowledge
members. Rabbi Brown, wh
that difficulties exist.
lives in New York, recentl
"There's a gap between the
taught a class of fifth- arr
Seminary's ordaining women
sixth-grade students, all c
and the receptivity among
whom grew up seeing wome
congregations," says Rabbi
rabbis. "Still, they'll say, `Mr.,
Elliot Schoenberg, director of
— I mean Rabbi.' "
the joint commission of rab-
Rabbi Liberman, now serN
binic placement for the RA
ing as interim rabbi at Templ,
and the United Synagogue of
Samu El - Or Olom in Miami
Conservative Judaism. "But
believes Conservative Jewrj
that's true in just about every
is faced with a unique dilein,
profession."
ma: how to encourage acceP
The problem, Rabbi
tance of women rabbi
Schoenberg explains, lies not
without "disenfranchising ha]
with the RA but with congre-
the movement."
gations themselves.
Orthodox Judaism does no
"We do not in any way dif-
ordain women rabbis. Thy
ferentiate between men and
Reform movement was th
women and we work very
first to offer smicha, ordina
hard to get them all pulpits.
lion, to women, and has nev
Our computers don't even list
er given temples affiliate(
the sex of the candidate. All
with the Union of America'
women and men are referred
Hebrew Congregations the op
to all congregations seeking a
tion of rejecting candidate
rabbi."
simply because they are fe
But inevitably synagogues
male.
have their requirements, and
The JTS, though it ordain;
these hardly are limited to hir-
women rabbis, also offers tw(
ing a man.
"Some say they'll only take
someone married, or they
want somebody with a mas-
Inevitably
ter's degree in social work, or
synagogues have
maybe they insist on some-
body with a camp back-
their requirements
ground," Rabbi Schoenberg
hardly limited to
says. "All I can do is give them
a list of applicants."
hiring a man.
The vast majority of con-
gregations have no problem
hiring a woman, he adds, and
the few who do balk are like-
minyanim on Shabbat anc
ly to get an earful.
High Holidays. In one, wom
"I won't let the chairman of
en participate in every aspeci
a search committee just say,
of the service. The other ie
only take a man,' " Rabbi
called traditional — that is
Schoenberg says. "Believe me,
there is separate seating and
I pressure them very hard.
women are not allowed to read
"The JTS and RA are very
Torah, lead services or count
proud of the wonderful wom-
in a minyan.
en rabbis who have graduat-
As long as such double stan
ed and are serving the Jewish
dards exist, it may be hard
people. They do us all honor."
convince Conservative con
No women have applied for
gregations they should talc
the assistant rabbi's position
female rabbis seriously, Rabb'
open at Adat Shalom
Liberman says.
Synagogue in Farmington
"Of course, the JTS did make
Hills, Rabbi Schoenberg says.
the decision to ordain women
Greta Bernard Brown, for-
rabbis — and that was whe
merly of Southfield, says it can
no women were there." ❑

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