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...Joanne Sherry (P) d. Josie Isolin 16-14, 15-4, 15-10. Betsy Howe (H) d. Risa Williams 15-7, 15-12, 10-15, 15-10. Kate Dunham (H) d. Elliot Davis 12-15, 15-11, 17-15, 11-15,15-9. Judy Hung (H) d. Susannah Robins...
...When Susannah Heschel was growing up as a rabbi's daughter in New York City, she once attended a Simhat Torah celebration, during which men traditionally dance for joy while holding scrolls of Scripture. She wanted to join the dance, which is forbidden to women, and under the disapproving eyes of many in the crowd, joined her father in the festivities. When asked who had given her permission, Susannah snapped...
...Judaism. Shortly before he died in 1972, Heschel urged his daughter to apply to the seminary as a candidate for ordination as a rabbi. "I think things might change," he said. Though women had long studied and taught at J.T.S., none had ever tried to become a rabbi. Susannah's request was denied...
Last week Susannah Heschel was back on campus as the seminary's faculty voted 34 to eight to admit women for rabbinical training, despite strong opposition from some of the institution's leading scholars. The first women candidates will be admitted next September, and those who complete the four-or five-year course will be ordained. Susannah, a doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania, has not decided whether to join them...
...meeting, and Israel Francus, former chairman of the seminary's department of Talmud and Rabbinics, said angrily, "We have committed suicide by handing over the whole Conservative movement to the Reform wing." But to many Jewish women the risk of schism is the price of revolution. Declared Susannah Heschel, now 28 and editor of a recent anthology, On Being a Jewish Feminist: "It is so important and noble to be a rabbi...