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by Chanel Dubofsky
Women Who Are Rabbis Experience Their Own Brand of Harassment
“I’ve been harassed. It’s happened to every female rabbi I know,” Rabbi Rebecca Sirbu said. “People have an overwhelming sense of discomfort with women rabbis, because they’re women.”And female rabbis face an additional burden of harassment because they are occupying a powerful position once permitted only to men. “People have to start seeing women as religious leaders and thinking about what that means,” Sirbu, director of Rabbi’s Without Borders, told me.
#MeToo IN THE JEWISH WORLD
The articles in this special section:
What Sexual Misconduct Costs a Community
by Susan Weidman Schneider
Jewish nonprofit organizations can feel like an extension of a family, and boundary violations in a Jewish workplace setting seem often to be overlooked or forgiven for the sake of the cause itself.
My Summer in Hollywood
by Amy I. Rozen
#MeToo in High School
by Sarah Seltzer
Ditching “Boys Will Be Boys”
by Julie Sissman
Women Who Are Rabbis Experience Their Own Brand of Harassment
by Chanel Dubofsky
Clues to Making Change
by C.D.