Women's Rabbinic Network

Women's Rabbinic Network is an American national organization for female Reform rabbis.[1][2] It was founded in 1975 by female rabbinic students.[3] Rabbi Deborah Prinz was its first overall coordinator and Rabbi Myra Soifer was the first editor of its newsletter.[4]

In 2010 Ellen Weinberg Dreyfus, a founder and former president of the Women's Rabbinic Network, was selected as one of the top 50 rabbis in America by Newsweek and the Sisterhood blog of The Jewish Daily Forward.[5]

In 2012 Rabbi Mary L. Zamore, then the executive director of the Women's Rabbinic Network, wrote to Rabbi David Ellenson, the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion’s then president, requesting that he address the discrepancy of male candidates' ordination certificates identifying them by the Reform movement’s traditional "morenu harav," or "our teacher the rabbi," while female candidates' certificates only used the term "rav u’morah," or "rabbi and teacher." After four years of deliberation, HUC-JIR decided to give women a choice of wording on their ordination certificates beginning in 2016, including the option to have the same wording as men.[6]

The piece "From Periphery to Center: A History of the Women's Rabbinic Network", by Rabbi Carole B. Balin, appears in the book The Sacred Calling: Four Decades of Women in the Rabbinate, published in 2016.[7][8][9]

References
  1. "Rabbis in the United States | Jewish Women's Archive". Jwa.org. 1903-02-14. Retrieved 2013-10-13.
  2. "Rabbi Rebecca Dubowe - Temple Adat Elohim". Adatelohim.org. Retrieved 2013-10-13.
  3. "Home". Womensrabbinicnetwork.org. 2017-08-24. Retrieved 2017-09-26.
  4. Carole B. Balin (1997). "From Periphery to Center: A History of the Women's Rabbinic Network". Central Conference of American Rabbis Journal. Archived from the original on July 18, 2012. Retrieved June 30, 2012.
  5. "The Sisterhood 50 –". Forward.com. Retrieved 2013-10-13.
  6. Why a small word change is a big deal for Reform women rabbis JTA, May 31, 2016
  7. Hirshel Jaffe. "The Message of the Sacred Calling: Our Journey to True Equality | RavBlog". Ravblog.ccarnet.org. Retrieved 2016-05-26.
  8. Zauzmer, Julie (2012-12-14). "'I not only envisioned it. I fought for it': The first female rabbi isn't done yet". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2016-05-26.
  9. http://www.ccarpress.org/admin/manage_assetlibrary/file.asp?id=04646
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