![]() ![]() Over 50 women have been ordained since then.Īlong with female academics, female rabbis have expanded the canon of Jewish study and stretched the parameters of Jewish practice to include women and their perspectives. ![]() Maharat in New York City was founded in 2009 as the first institute to ordain women to serve as Orthodox clergy. ![]() As a result, some use “ rabba,” the feminine rendering of “rav” in Hebrew, while others use “maharat,” a Hebrew acronym for a female leader of Jewish law, spirituality and Torah.Ĭlasses at liberal Jewish seminaries today often consist of at least equal numbers of male- and female-identifying rabbinical candidates. The use of the professional title “rabbi” for an ordained woman remains controversial among Orthodox Jews as it derives from the masculine Hebrew word “rav,” the title given to men at ordination. ![]() After Rabbi Priesand in 1972, Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso was the first in the Reconstructionist movement in 1974, Rabbi Amy Eilberg in the Conservative movement in 1985 and Rabba Sara Hurwitz in Modern Orthodoxy in 2009. Courtesy of The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, CC BYĪn estimated 1,500 women have become rabbis across every major Jewish denomination. Sally Priesand as a student rabbi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. ![]()
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