Four pioneer female rabbis are meeting in the Boston area for what is being billed as a Hanukkah celebration, the Boston Herald website reports today (December 5, 2010).
The program Monday evening, December 6 -- called "Raising up the Light" -- features the first ordained North American Reform, Reconstructionist, and Conservative female rabbis, and an Orthodox rabba.
The panel discussion with Rabbis Sally Priesand, Sandy Sasso, and Amy Eilberg, and Rabba Sara Hurwitz is being held at Temple Reyim in West Newton, Massachusetts.
The Synagogue Council of Massachusetts -- sponsor of this event -- says it is the first time all four of these women will have appeared publicly in one place.
The Orthodox branch of Judaism does not allow preaching in synagogues by women rabbis -- that is the reason Sara Hurwitz is called a rabba instead of a rabbi -- although it does allow them to teach and perform leadership roles in other Orthodox Judaic activities.
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