ISBN10: 0878202145, ISBN13: 9780878202140, [publisher: HUC-JIR Rabbinic Alumni Association Press, Cincinnati] Softcover Octavo, paper covers, xii, 135 pp., index Foreword by Zola. Articles are "'Who Shall Sojourn in the Tabernacle.': Celebrating Twenty Years of Women in the Rabbinate," Alfred Gottschalk, "Women's Journey toward Rabbinic Ordination," Ellen M. Umansky, "From Antoinette Brown Blackwell to Sally Preisand: An Historical Perspective on the Emergence of Women in the American Rabbinate," Jonathan D. Sarna, "A Male God: Dilemmas for Men as well as Women," Howard Eilberg-Schwartz, "From Equality to Transforamtion: The Challenge of Women's Rabbinic Leadership," Laura Geller, "The Power of God's Voice," Elyse D. Frishman, "Transformation of the Rabbinate: Future Directions and Prospects," David Ellenson, "A Visit to the Future," Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer. Postscript by Sally Preisand.
[Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1996]

Cincinnati: HUC-JIR Rabbinic Alumni Association Press, Date: 1996 Book. Very Good +. Soft cover. First Edition. "Papers delivered at an Academic Conference Honoring Twenty Years of Women in the Rabbinate, 1972-1992.". 1996. HUC-JIR Rabbinic Alumni Association Press ISBN 0878202145 9780878202140 [US]

Hebrew Union College Press 1997 1st paperback New Size: 96x6x144;

ISBN10: 0878202145, ISBN13: 9780878202140, [publisher: Hebrew Union College Press] Softcover First Edition
[Bristol, CT, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1997]

Hebrew Union College Pr, Date: 1996-07. Paperback. Used: Good. 1996. Hebrew Union College Pr ISBN 0878202145 9780878202140 [US]

ISBN10: 0878202145, ISBN13: 9780878202140, [publisher: Hebrew Union College Press,U.S.] Softcover Paperback. In 1972, twenty-six-year-old Sally Jane Priesand from Cleveland, Ohio became the first in a line of women rabbis to receive ordination from the faculty of a rabbinical seminary. She was not first woman to study: nearly one hundred years earlier, Julia Ettinger had studied with Hebrew Union College's founder and first president, Isaac Mayer Wise. And HUC had formally agreed to ordain women fifty years before Priesand's ordination. But unprecedented transformations quickly swept over American Jewish life in the wake of Priesand's ordination. Women began to flourish in the American rabbinate. In just two decades, they comprised one-half of the student body in the Rabbinic School of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, one-half of the student body of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, and approximately one-third of the student body of Jewish Theological Seminary. This collection of essays, written by distinguished rabbis and scholars, seeks to examine the significance of women in the modern rabbinate. The essays address the history of women's journey to ordination; how the existence of women rabbis changed and challenged Reform Judaism and the larger Jewish community; the impact this transformation of the rabbinate had on liturgy and theology, Jewish identity, and Jewish communal leadership; and how women rabbis might ...
Show/Hide image

ISBN10: 0878202145, ISBN13: 9780878202140, [publisher: Hebrew Union College Press] Softcover
[Galway, GY, Ireland] [Publication Year: 1997]

Hebrew Union College Press 1997-11-01 Paperback New Size: 8x6x0; New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hebrew Union College Press, Date: 1997-11-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1997. Hebrew Union College Press ISBN 0878202145 9780878202140 [US]