Preaching to the Choir: Responses to the RCA's Redundant Resolution to Ordain or Recognize Female Rabbis
If supporters and opponents of the ordination of Orthodox female rabbis can agree about anything, it’s that last week’s resolution by the Rabbinical Council of America was a huge waste of time.
Writing in defense of the RCA’s decision to forbid its members from ordaining or hiring women rabbis, Rabbi Gil Student wrote in Haaretz: “We waste our energy when we debate texts and traditions on women rabbis because that is a conversation for a past era.” Advocates of female ordination couldn’t agree more. The Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance released a statement calling the RCA’s resolution “redundant,” noting that the council has already stated its opposition twice before in the last six years.