CCAR Taskforce on the Experience of Women in the Rabbinate: Sermons and Text Study

• Study Guide:
  The #MeToo Movement has brought to light just how widespread sexual misconduct has been both today and throughout history. What does Jewish tradition have to say about the issue of sexual harassment and mistreatment of women? When have women’s voices been suppressed in Jewish tradition, and when have they been heard? This study guide, created by Rabbi Micah Streiffer and Rabbi Judy Schindler, and brought to you by the Task Force on the Experience of Women in the Rabbinate, is an invitation to communities to engage with Jewish texts, and to enter into conversation around this important issue.

• Sermons:
  • Shiru: Miriam’s Model for Reform Leadership — Sarah Berman (Jan 17, 2019)
    • A rabbinical student’s senior sermon on parashat Beshalach at HUC-JIR in New York on Jewish women’s leadership through an anti-hierarchical lens.
  • The Embodied Experience — Rabbi Esther Hugenholtz [PDF]
  • And God Built Houses for Them — Rabbi Esther Hugenholtz [PDF]
  • Listen to Her Voice: Amplifying Biblical Women’s Voices for a More Just Future — Emily Aronson (Nov. 14, 2019)

    • A rabbinical student’s senior sermon on Parshat Vayeira at HUC-JIR in New York on amplifying women’s voices.

• Me Too Sample Sermons:
  • A Woman’s Reality and a Man’s Responsibility in the Era of #MeToo  — Rabbis Paul Jacobson and Morah Barbara Haber
  • #MeToo, What’s Next – Rabbi Julie Bressler 
  • Abraham Sarah and #MeToo, Lech lecha– Rabbi Audrey Korotkin
  • Chayyei Sara #MeToo – Speaking Out Against the Silence – Rabbi Hannah Kingston
  • MeToo for Far Too Long – Rabbi Dan Moskovitz
  • See the Flood of #MeToo so the Rainbow Can Shine – Rabbi Rachael Klein Miller
  • Sermon on Sexual Harassment – Rabbi Shelley Kovar Becker
  • #MeToo in the Synagogue – Rabbi Jordan Helfman
  • The Stories We Tell – Rabbi Sarah Weissman
  • The Tower of Babel, Anita Hill, Unchecked Power, and the #MeToo’s of Sexual Harassment – Rabbi Jill Maderer
  • Vayishlach #MeToo – Rabbi Rachel Maimin
  • Toward A New Vision of Partnership-Transforming A Rape Culture — Rabbi Lisa Berney
  • Sisterhood Shabbat – Rabbi Karen Citrin
  • A #MeToo/#GamAni Confession for the High Holy Days — Rabbi Mary L. Zamore
  • When the Torah Calls Out #MeToo: Confronting Our Objectionable Texts — by Rabbi Sarah Reines
  • #MeToo: The Language and the Flood – Rabbi Michael Danziger
  • The Shofar Calls us to Hear Women’s Voices – Rabbi Ellen Weinberg Dreyfus
  • Yom Kippur 5779 Me Too – Rabbi Sidney M. Helbraun
  • #MeToo As a Jew – Rabbi Michelle Missaghieh

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