A woman will lead an Israeli Orthodox synagogue

A woman will lead an Israeli Orthodox synagogue
 
(JTA) — A woman will be the spiritual leader of an Israeli Orthodox synagogue for the first time.
Shirat Hatamar, a congregation in the West Bank settlement of Efrat, elected Rabbanit Shira Marili Mirvis, 40, as spiritual leader on Monday with the support of 83 percent of its membership.
“I truly hold in my heart all of the women, across all of the generations, who are greater than me, and smarter than me, and fear heaven and are students of Torah that didn’t receive the recognition and love that I have received,” she said in a speech this week. “I have a congregation that is a gr...

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