Women Who Would Be Rabbis: A History of Women's Ordination 1889-19851998 National Jewish Book Award finalist Pamela S. Nadell mines a wealth of untapped sources to bring us the first complete story of the courageous and committed Jewish women who passionately defended their right to equal religious participation through rabbinical ordination. |
Contents
Could notour womenbeministers? RAISING THE QUESTION OF WOMENS RABBINIC ORDINATION 1889 | 1 |
Make a highway for woman RISING EXPECTATIONS FOR WOMENS ORDINATION THE 1890s | 30 |
Woman cannot justly be denied the privilege of ordination 1922 | 61 |
An idea whose time has come 1972 | 118 |
Qualifying her to teach is one thing Ordaining her as a rabbi is quite another THE DEBATE IN CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM | 170 |
Will there be Orthodox women rabbis? 1984 | 215 |
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