For the “New York Times,” Peace in the Middle East Is Bad News
Unless it involves risking Israel’s security.
August 31, 2016
A biblical perspective.
In recent years there has been much discussion, and controversy, about expanding opportunities for women to serve as clergy and educators in Orthodox institutions, with some advocating for the ordination of female rabbis or the introduction of new roles and titles specifically for women. Sarah Rindner, while sympathetic to such measures, draws on the Bible to caution against the tendency of arguments about the subject to lose sight of what is most important:
Unless it involves risking Israel’s security.
Al Mustafa University.
Turning a right into a privilege.
A biblical perspective.
Navigating between the universal and the particular.
In recent years there has been much discussion, and controversy, about expanding opportunities for women to serve as clergy and educators in Orthodox institutions, with some advocating for the ordination of female rabbis or the introduction of new roles and titles specifically for women. Sarah Rindner, while sympathetic to such measures, draws on the Bible to caution against the tendency of arguments about the subject to lose sight of what is most important:
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