VOI’s Eve Harow hears the perspectives of two scholars, Rabbi Chaim Brovender and Rabbi Yair Kahn,.
First, Eve is joined in-studio by Rabbi Brovender, on his 50th anniversary in Israel. Rabbi Brovender initiated wide-scale Torah learning for women, and the dissemination of Jewish studies via the Internet, through his Web yeshiva. (http://www.webyeshiva.org)
Then, Eve is joined in-studio by Rabbi Kahn, of the esteemed religious-Zionist Har Etzion Yeshiva in Gush Etzion, to discuss the controversial issue of women receiving rabbinic ordination. He says that it shouldn’t be an ethical, moral or feminist debate, and that there is room in Jewish law to allow for it. However, he explains, the key question is whether it leads to unity or foments disharmony among Jews, and he believes it is the latter. He therefore thinks that until there is a broader consensus about it, he wholeheartedly supports women filling leadership roles in the Torah world without being given the title of “rabbi.” listen now