Should we be surprised that Jewish communal organizations have a "glass ceiling" that is even harder to crack than the one women hit all over corporate America? An American-born Jewish woman led the State of Israel. Women fight in the Israeli Army and now in the U.S. Armed Services. In the U.S., women are rabbis in Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionist synagogues. They lead Ivy League universities. They chair powerful Senate committees. But, as the "Forward" article makes clear, there are obviously still many men in positions of power in "the Jewish world" who resist women running the show, even when the show provides typically "female" services. Why? Since I work in an organization founded and run by Jewish women, the question is academic, but I would love to know how people "on the inside" answer it.
Should we be surprised that Jewish communal organizations have a "glass ceiling" that is even harder to crack than the one women hit all over corporate America? An American-born Jewish woman led the State of Israel. Women fight in the Israeli Army and now in the U.S. Armed Services. In the U.S., women are rabbis in Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionist synagogues. They lead Ivy League universities. They chair powerful Senate committees. But, as the "Forward" article makes clear, there are obviously still many men in positions of power in "the Jewish world" who resist women running the show, even when the show provides typically "female" services. Why? Since I work in an organization founded and run by Jewish women, the question is academic, but I would love to know how people "on the inside" answer it.