Women who Would be Rabbis

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Women who Would be Rabbis is written by Pamela Susan Nadell and published by Beacon Press (MA). It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 080703648X (ISBN 10) and 9780807036488 (ISBN 13).

"The definitive study of 'the road to women's ordination' in Judaism." --Jonathan D. Sarna, author of The American Jewish Experience Pamela S. Nadell mines a wealth of untapped sources to bring us the first complete story of the outstanding Jewish women who passionately defended their right to equal religious participation through rabbinical ordination. These personal stories--of w omen like Ray Frank, hailed as "the girl rabbi of the golden West" at the turn of the century, and Sally Priesand, ordained in 1972 as the first woman rabbi--are woven with fascinating history and accounts of the controversies that continue in many Je wish communities today. Women Who Would Be Rabbis is a 1998 National Jewish Book Award finalist.