Comments on: A Rabbi Named Sue

By: Rachel Tziporah

Rachel Tziporah — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:06:40 +0000

Adam, B’H, that you spoke the truth! We must cling to the mesorah to keep true Torah alive.

By: Teaneck Jew

Teaneck Jew — Mon, 04 May 2009 20:51:22 +0000

The always entertaining, Jonathan Mark is: witty, funny and “on the Mark” as always! Bravo!

By: Yonah

Yonah — Fri, 01 May 2009 04:37:52 +0000

Maharabbanit Alta’s counterparts graduating Drisha - Orthodox women who want work in rabbinic jobs - have a jolly difficult time finding work because they don’t have the title; like it or not, being called “Rabbi” makes all the difference in getting jobs in education, Hillels, etc. So to hear the YCT Maharat Guys pontificating about how calling Sara “Rabbi” would affect their chances in the job market was pathetic, but to hear them doing it in front of graduating, job-hunting Drisha women demonstrated admirably that whatever they had learned during their time at YCT, it wasn’t menschkeit.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:01:05 +0000

Great post. By the way I did not find your comments angry. A bit funny and somewhat profound, and very realistic,… yes.

By: BAT SHEVA MARCUS

BAT SHEVA MARCUS — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:01:55 +0000

Jonathon– our modern day Yirmiyahu — you’ve done it again. What can I say???

By: Aharon

Aharon — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:22:54 +0000

the thing is Rav is a male title, Why not call her hachama? the Equivalent of the title Hacham. or maybe something like “Rabbah” but to call her rabbi is silly. A woman can only psak for women but there is not reason why she cant have some sort of semicha

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:13:31 +0000

Great interpretation !!!

Yes, the open orthodoxers are finding yet another way to destroy our mesorah. They are following a long line of innovators: Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist, Humanist, GLTVism.

Forgive me for standing with the mesorah my Alter Zeideh and Bubbe found comfort in and passed on to my parents.

Call me old fashioned. I just want to learn Torah and do mitzvos as best as I can.

By the way, I am an out of towner. Grew up in FL. Learned in Israel and NY.

I can tell you that taking politics out of the mix, I feel most ORTHODOX just want NORMAL Rabbis from NORMAL yeshivot.

So basically take your Democratic Liberal LGTV Judiasm and jump in a lake. You are the next movement whose practicioners will end up like Reform and Conservitive — lost and married to goyim in two generations.

Just my opinion. Shabbat Shalom.

By: Joel Rich

Joel Rich — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:36:25 +0000

Did you graduate YU in 1973? - I still prize the Masmid fable!

Anyway I seem to recall someone saying “that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet” (cue “it’s still rock and roll to me”) - let YCT be YCT and as R’YBS famously observed - history will paskin.
KT

By: Aabye Felderstine

Aabye Felderstine — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:41:50 +0000

Watching certain YCT graduates and students whine about, posture, debate, and pontificate their opposition to ordaining women as Rabbis, not for moral or halachic reasons, but because of worries concerning their own jobs has been a sad and frankly a pathetic spectacle. These rabbis and soon to be rabbis have violated the most basic tenet of the rabbiante as express by Rav Soloveitchik in Halachik Man (p. 90-91) and elsewhere: to stand for truth, halachah, and to defend the rights of the downtrodden and underprivileged — to risk unpopularity in the face of an unpopular but correct decision. That YCT’s staff enabled and responded to these students and their petty fears is even more sad. YCT, an allegedly ideological instution, has yielded to purely utilitarian considerations. Sad indeed. But there is good news, perhaps. If I ever need the counsel of a rabbi trained in politics, intrigue, and sanctimonious self-interest, I will know whom to turn too: YCT rabbis who opposed the ordination of Sara Horowitz. If I need advice from someone trained to follow his conscience, to tell truth to power, to make an unpopular but right decision, I will turn elsewhere.

By: anon

anon — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:19:54 +0000

You forgot the title “Yoetzet” or more precisely “Yoetzet Halacha” …