{"id":684,"date":"2015-12-24T02:15:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T02:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/?p=684"},"modified":"2017-07-25T18:02:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T18:02:56","slug":"womens-ordination-would-have-been-unthinkable-without-pioneering-halachic-critique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/2015\/12\/womens-ordination-would-have-been-unthinkable-without-pioneering-halachic-critique\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Ordination Would Have Been Unthinkable Without Pioneering Halachic Critique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/opinion\/letters\/325404\/womens-ordination-would-have-been-unthinkable-without-pioneering-halachic-c\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In their letter in The Forward<\/a>, Rabbis Ronald Price and Bruce Ginsburg discuss the voice of the UTJ in the context of the development of female clergy in the Conservative and Orthodox movements.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Presciently, some among the UTCJ leadership asserted that \u2013 within an Orthodox setting where there are plenty of laymen capable of serving as prayer leaders, Torah readers and witnesses and where commitment to halachah would preclude infractions \u2013 women could serve in positions of spiritual leadership, even if it would mean developing a new title to reflect this welcome innovation. Far from inventing specious sociological arguments to block women\u2019s leadership of the Jewish community, the founders of the UTCJ were the first to define the halachic parameters enabling women\u2019s ordination that have now been adopted by Open Orthodoxy.<\/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>In their letter in The Forward, Rabbis Ronald Price and Bruce Ginsburg discuss the voice of the UTJ in the context of the development of female clergy in the Conservative and Orthodox movements. Presciently, some among the UTCJ leadership asserted that \u2013 within an Orthodox setting where there are plenty of laymen capable of serving <a href=\"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/2015\/12\/womens-ordination-would-have-been-unthinkable-without-pioneering-halachic-critique\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"coauthors":[79,80],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-womens-forum"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions\/756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}