Contact Admin. Tuesday, Apr 02, Friday, Feb 22, Friday, Dec 14, Thursday, Dec 13, Some come from dynasties of learners, some are the first woman in their family to delve deeply into the texts. Some see the task they have put before themselves as their greatest challenge, and others as their greatest achievement. For some, it has lifted a burden; for others, it is the burden.
However, increasingly, learned women are called Rabbanit — the title that used to belong to a woman married to a rabbi, but now is used for a woman scholar in her own right. In the US, however, the issue of titles and ordination is far stormier, with some saying the issue will split the community. Both the local rabbinic council of Bergen County and a number of rabbis in the RCA responded to the move. The RCBC amended its bylaws, which now do not allow as members rabbis of congregations that let women hold rabbinic positions or internships that are part of ordination programs.
Holy books line the top shelves and toys, the bottom. Born to a large religious family and raised in Jerusalem, she was profoundly influenced both by the pious men and the educated women who raised her. I grew up in a home where a woman could be whatever she wanted to be — in all areas but Judaism. Then I shared what I learned. Other children would ask me questions and I would answer them. In high school, she studied Talmud and loved the cognitive and spiritual aspects of it, but was stifled, even as she was encouraged to continue.
The mixed messages continued, and influenced her, as she sought a partner who would appreciate her intelligence, love of learning and desire to teach. She found, fell in love with and married newly religious Adam Katz, and the young couple devoted the beginning of their marriage to Torah study.
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