Women's Rabbinic Network is, according to itself, “the organization of Reform female, nonbinary, genderfluid rabbis, supporting and advocating for our members and the values we uphold to positively impact women in the Jewish community.”
Ellen Weinberg Dreyfus
Ellen Weinberg Dreyfus is an American rabbi. She is a founder and former president of the Women's Rabbinic Network.
Career
She was ordained in 1979 at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in New York, and is to her know ...
, a founder and former president of the Women's Rabbinic Network, was selected as one of the top 50 rabbis in America by Newsweek and the Sisterhood blog of ''
The Jewish Daily Forward
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''.
In 2012 Rabbi Mary L. Zamore, then the executive director of the Women's Rabbinic Network, wrote to Rabbi
David Ellenson
David Ellenson (June 25, 1947 – December 7, 2023) was an American rabbi and academic who was known as a leader of the Reform movement in Judaism. Ellenson was director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies and visiting professor of Near ...
, the
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
Hebrew (; ''ʿÎbrit'') is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and remained in regular use as a first language until ...
’s then president, requesting that he address the discrepancy of male candidates' ordination certificates identifying them by the Reform movement’s traditional "morenu harav," or "our teacher the rabbi," while female candidates' certificates only used the term "rav u’morah," or "rabbi and teacher." After four years of deliberation, HUC-JIR decided to give women a choice of wording on their ordination certificates beginning in 2016, including the option to have the same wording as men.
The piece "From Periphery to Center: A History of the Women's Rabbinic Network", by Rabbi
Carole B. Balin, appears in the book ''The Sacred Calling: Four Decades of Women in the Rabbinate'', published in 2016.
In August 2022, Rabbi
Elaine Rose Glickman
Elaine may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* , opera composed by Herman Bemberg
* "Elaine" (short story), 1945 short story by J. D. Salinger
* "Elaine" (song), by ABBA
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was named assistant executive director of the organization.
See also
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Women rabbis
Women rabbis and Torah scholars are Jews, Jewish women who have received formal ''semikhah'' (rabbinic ordination) as rabbis or are recognized for their studies and contributions to Judaism, Jewish religious tradition, respectively. The ordination ...
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Rabbinic authority
Rabbinic authority in Judaism relates to the theological and communal authority attributed to rabbis and their pronouncements in matters of Jewish law. The extent of rabbinic authority differs by various Jewish groups and denominations throughout ...
References
External links
Women's Rabbinic Network Official website
Jewish organizations based in the United States
Jewish feminist organizations in the United States
Rabbinical organizations
Women's Rabbinic Network
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