There was a part of Russia where every rabbi selected was cut down by the boyer class. Eventually the Jews learned to select women as rabbis. The boyers did not kill them.
My sister in law's husband belongs to such a tradition.
Women rabbis are not a new invention but are a logical response to intensely anti-semitic oppression and murder.
263 posted on 05/12/2005 8:47:44 PM PDT by muawiyah