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Article: Courageous innovation.(gay and lesbians in Conservative Judaism)
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- June 22, 2005
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I have a vivid memory of being in Rabbi Neil Gillman's class in 1988 when he talked about the struggles around the decision to ordain women as Conservative rabbis. He recounted a story about someone who, on the day of the decision to admit women to the Rabbinical School at JTS, said: "Today women, tomorrow gays." My visceral reaction was: "That's preposterous. How can people lump the two together when they are so different?" My reaction has stayed with me over the years as I have become passionate about the need to accept gay and lesbian Jews fully, including the need to ordain them. I see how, as the movement was just beginning to make room for women, I wanted desperately ...