A new initiative is paying Orthodox synagogues to hire female spiritual leaders.
BY MARCY OSTER
The Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance announced Sunday that it is giving grants of up to $10,000 per year to synagogues that hire women in newly created positions as spiritual leaders... The funds for the project were donated by Ann and Jeremy Pava of West Hartford, Connecticut.
The ordination of women as rabbis and spiritual leaders is fraught in the Orthodox world. A decade ago, Yeshivat Maharat opened in New York as the first Orthodox institution in North America to ordain women as clergy members. The institution has faced pushback from many in the establishment Orthodox world, including the Orthodox Union.
The Conservative and Reform movements have been ordaining women as rabbis for decades.
Alijansa židovskih ortodoksnih feministica je u nedjelju najavila da daje sredstva ( grant) od 10.000 $, na godinu , onim sinagogama koje bi angažirale žene kao spiritualne lidere- nova mjesta koja su kreirana za žene. Taj projekt je iz fonda kojega su donirali Ann i Jeremy Pava iz Connecticuta.
U ortodoksnom svijetu, inače, nije dozvoljeno učestvovanje žena kao rabina ili duhovnih vođa. Prije desetak godina je Ješiva Mahart u New Yorku bila prva ortodoksna institucija u Sjevernoj Americi koja je imala ženu kao člana "klera" i imala je osudu brojnih Ortodoksa uključivši Ortodox Union .
Konzervativni i reformski židovski pokreti imaju žene rabine već desetljećima.