A new initiative is paying Orthodox synagogues to hire female spiritual leaders.
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.
Synagogues can receive a matching grant equaling half of the money that they commit, meaning that they would have to commit $20,000 to receive the maximum $10,000 grant per year. Synagogues can receive funding for two years.
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.
...they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. Acts 17:11 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. Isaiah 8:20 "Whatever it is, I'm against it. No matter what it is or who commenced it, I'm against it." Groucho Marx, from Horse Feathers
Saturday, 9 November 2019
American feminists pay Orthodox Jewish synagogues to hire female leaders
It seems that Orthodox Judaism in the United States is becoming as corrupt and apostate as much of what passes for Christianity; as reported by Marcy Oster of Jewish Telegraphic Agency, November 7, 2019 (links in original):
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