{"id":1364,"date":"2018-02-14T07:19:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T07:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2018-02-14T07:29:36","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T07:29:36","slug":"response-to-rabbi-gil-students-orthodox-union-to-enforce-ban-on-women-rabbis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/2018\/02\/response-to-rabbi-gil-students-orthodox-union-to-enforce-ban-on-women-rabbis\/","title":{"rendered":"Response to Rabbi Gil Student\u2019s \u201cOrthodox Union to Enforce Ban on Women Rabbis\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbi Rappoport responds to\u00a0Rabbi Gil Student\u2019s article \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Opinion\/Orthodox-Union-to-enforce-ban-on-women-rabbis-542248\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orthodox Union to Enforce Ban on Women Rabbis<\/a>\u201d in Rabbi Rappoport&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Opinion\/February-13-2018-Ban-on-women-as-rabbis-542439\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter to the Jerusalem Post Editor found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Saying \u201cour mesorah\u201d is an excuse one uses when no halachic objection can be found. Jewish legal text makes it abundantly clear by saying that \u201cwe have not seen this is not a defense.\u201d . . .<\/p>\n<p>Saying that the Rabbinical Council of America consulted with expert rabbis is a worthless statement . . . [i]n our religion, we worship sacred text, not latter-day saintly rabbis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbi Rappoport responds to\u00a0Rabbi Gil Student\u2019s article \u201cOrthodox Union to Enforce Ban on Women Rabbis\u201d in Rabbi Rappoport&#8217;s\u00a0letter to the Jerusalem Post Editor found here. Saying \u201cour mesorah\u201d is an excuse one uses when no halachic objection can be found. Jewish legal text makes it abundantly clear by saying that \u201cwe have not seen this <a href=\"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/2018\/02\/response-to-rabbi-gil-students-orthodox-union-to-enforce-ban-on-women-rabbis\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,78,76],"tags":[],"coauthors":[121],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-halakhah","category-modern-judaism","category-womens-forum"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1368,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions\/1368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}