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...Peretz's commitment to teaching is equally strong. The Talmud says that teachers become their students, says Peretz. "I see little bits of myself in my students and that's a very gratifying experience...
There was exultation among activist Jewish women that the change had finally come. "This is one of those days when you have a sense of participating in Jewish history, not just teaching it," said Paula Hyman, dean of the seminary's undergraduate division. Judith Hauptman, a professor of Talmud at the seminary who has long taught rabbinical students, declared that "now I'm going to have the option of becoming one myself...
...problem is that traditionalists in the Conservative branch believe, along with Orthodox Jews, that Halakhah (religious law) clearly rules out women rabbis. According to the Talmud (teachings of religious sages compiled more than 14 centuries ago), women may not perform certain functions reserved to men, such as witnessing betrothals and marriages and leading congregations in prayers. J.T.S. Chancellor Gerson D. Cohen, who presided over the vote, left little doubt that he rejects the Orthodox view and believes that women should be allowed to perform these functions. Said Cohen: "I believe it is incumbent upon us to do away with discrimination...
Four leading faculty members refused to attend last week's 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...
...young Cynthia Ozick, as she recalls herself. In the novel, Ozick has reserved some of her most luminous prose to endow this girl-child with tender life. Though bursting with irony and wit, The Cannibal Galaxy takes on a fearful seriousness when Ozick cites this fragment from the Talmud: "The world rests on the breath of the children in the schoolhouses...