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to "being available to the girls in the
high school for spiritual counseling."
As an educator, Rabbi Bolton is
devoted to women's learning, signifi-
cantly as tile leader of Kedushat
HaKodesh, a monthly women's. wor-
ship and study program through Eilu
v' Eilu, the Conservative movement's
adult learning program. She teaches
"women-related subjects, like women
in the Bible," she says. "There's a dif-
ferent kind of energy and approach
involved in women's learning."
With two women colleagues, Rabbi
Harold Loss of Temple Israel says, "As
the father of three daughters, I like the
fact that young women can see more
and more women being ordained as
rabbis and cantors."
"I see both men and women bring-
ing their own qualities to the syna-
gogue. Both can be very nurturing —
or not. It depends on the individual,"
he says.
Having a more
diverse clergy can bet-
ter serve the congre-
gation, the rabbi says,
for just as some prefer
to see a male or
female doctor, "there
might be someone
who wants to speak
with male or female
clergy."
Rabbi Kolton, who
received her Ph.D. in
rabbinic studies from--
Union Institute in Cincinnati,
wrote her dissertation on the
role and experience of women
rabbis.
"The Jewish community is
still trying to organize what
it means to have a rabbi who
looks like a woman," she
says. "But for Jewish girls to finally see
women in Jewish positions that they
can also grow up and be, is very pow-
erful. It's good for the balance of
Judaism, which is not just maternal or
paternal. Men don't act like women
and women don't act like men.
Judaism needs two strong parents."
Working in the community-relations
field brings Rabbi Feldman into the
public arena representing the Jewish
community.
"I work primarily with inter-group
relations — including interfaith and
inter-ethnic coalitions and panels and
programs," she says. "The fact that I
am a woman makes no difference.
However, since much of my work is
engaging with the general community,
I am often the first woman rabbi
many non-Jews have met."

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Rabbi Hornsten says, "As a woman
rabbi, I fulfill a need for people who
may be more comfortable with a
woman. I study and teach issues that I
believe are significant for women —
that just aren't of interest for many
male rabbis. That, I believe, is very
important because it provides oppor-
tunities for women that perhaps
weren't open to them before."

Changes And Choices

"When I was ordained, I could have
told you how many women rabbis there
were," says Rabbi Feldman, a rabbi since
the mid-1980s. "The women who came
before me opened the doors to a differ-
ent and difficult path," she says. "Now
an entire generation has been raised with
the reality of women rabbis."
With time has come acceptance and
familiarity.

"Women had
been blocked
from the cantorial
field for
thousands of
years, so once it
was opened to
women, we eagerly
entered the gates.

"

—Cantor Corrsin

"Maybe enough time has passed
with women in the field that we are no
longer clearly defined as 'women rab-
bis' — rather 'rabbis who coincidental-
ly are women,'" says Rabbi Feldman.
Ordained at HUC-JIR in New York
City, she has Detroit roots through her
great-grandparents and grandmother.
"In the mid-'80s, many congregations
were excited by the prospect of a
woman rabbi," says Rabbi Feldman,
who leaves her current post June 14.
She starts Aug. 1 as director of the com-
mission on social action for the Reform
movement's UAHC in New York City.
"In every community where I served
a congregation, I was the first woman
rabbi in that community," she says.
"There is quite an excitement and
energy that goes along with that."
Women clergy are discovering new