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Washington Jewish Week
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June 19, 2008
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First Conservative woman pulpit rabbi in D.C. to retire from Adas Israel
What are you?"
Rabbi Avis Miller frequently heard that question when she first began leading services at Adas Israel Congregation in the mid-1980s. She was the first woman rabbi at a major Conservative synagogue and people weren't sure what to make of her.
But while congregants may have been curious, there was never any controversy or dispute about whether she belonged on the bima. While some people claim they don't want a woman rabbi, Miller relates, when they're "confronted with [a woman] performing as a rabbi, views change, sometimes on the spot."
Washington, she also noted, "has the highest proportion of ...
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