Israeli supreme court says rabbinate must offer tests to women
Jewish Orthodox women attend an event celebrating the completion of the seven-and-a-half-year cycle of daily study of the Talmud, in Jerusalem, on Jan. 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
(RNS) — The ruling does not call for the strictly Orthodox rabbinate to ordain women as rabbis but opens up to women the body’s licensing exams that test in a variety of areas of Jewish law.
