With all due respect to Rabbanit Ner David's Learning which I acknowledge as significantI am disappointed that the first claim to be an "Orthodox" women rabbi is an individual that seems "at best" on the fringe of "Orthodoxy". I think this will be less then helpful in actually helping create acceptance of more normative and numerous women rabbi's that le'atid lavo will be developed. I wish that Rabbanit Ner David would take a page out of Rabbanit Henkin's model. Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach z'l who had semicha from Rabbi Hutner z'tl already ordained at least 2 to my knowledge women rabbi's Mimi Feigelson and Sarah Leah Grafstien the latter is a Rabbi of a Renewalist congregation in Phoenix the former is somehwere within the broad spectrum of Orthodoxy and teaches at University of Judaism in Los Angeles. So to have another learned fringe woman rabbi within Orthodoxy seems at least to me not a chiddush except that there is more press and blog. The latter two women have been functioining for decades.
With all due respect to Rabbanit Ner David's Learning which I acknowledge as significantI am disappointed that the first claim to be an "Orthodox" women rabbi is an individual that seems "at best" on the fringe of "Orthodoxy". I think this will be less then helpful in actually helping create acceptance of more normative and numerous women rabbi's that le'atid lavo will be developed. I wish that Rabbanit Ner David would take a page out of Rabbanit Henkin's model. Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach z'l who had semicha from Rabbi Hutner z'tl already ordained at least 2 to my knowledge women rabbi's Mimi Feigelson and Sarah Leah Grafstien the latter is a Rabbi of a Renewalist congregation in Phoenix the former is somehwere within the broad spectrum of Orthodoxy and teaches at University of Judaism in Los Angeles. So to have another learned fringe woman rabbi within Orthodoxy seems at least to me not a chiddush except that there is more press and blog. The latter two women have been functioining for decades.