![]() ![]() 22 See, e.g., Rabbi REBECCA ALPERT, LIKE BREAD ON A SEDER PLATE 38-40 (1997) (discussing the. Rabbi Elwell also chid the Reform and Reconstructionist movement bodies charged with hiring rabbis: Rabbinical search committees, she said, should be sensitized to the issues faced by gay clergy and should help smooth the way of gay clergy among congregations. should be treated, why cant Jewish law do the same. At present, not only does the movement not ordain open gays, its synagogue body, the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, declines to hire open gays and lesbians for any position in which they would be acting as religious role models. She also called for the Conservative movement to begin ordaining openly gay men and women. In order to facilitate that goal, she said, the movements should use their Hebrew schools to teach acceptance of gays and lesbians and should promote more gays and lesbians to leadership positions. ![]() ![]() Rabbi Alpert told the Forward that while the "second generation" of lesbian rabbis now emerging seems to be meeting with less homophobia, gays and lesbians have a long way to go toward the day when they will have full acceptance in the liberal rabbinate. ![]()
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