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The British women who are training to be Orthodox rabbis

'I have no doubt in our kids' generation, women will be rabbis in the United Synagogue'

December 28, 2020 12:14
Trainee rabbi: Miriam Lorie
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Two UK Jewish women who are training to become Orthodox rabbis spoke of their hopes of forging a path for others.

Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz, a teaching fellow at the London School of Jewish Studies and a longstanding lecturer at Limmud, is due to complete her rabbinic studies at the pioneering Yeshivat Maharat for women in New York in the coming year.

Miriam Lorie, one of the founders of the Kehillat Nashira partnership minyan in Borehamwood, joined the yeshivah’s four-year semichah programme in autumn.

Dr Taylor-Guthartz told Limmud,I thought, well if I can do it, I will be a sign to other people that they can do it. And if I am not a communal rabbi, it doesn’t matter… I will have done something that will possibly help the next generation.”