Reply To: Why Can't Women Get Modern Smicha and Become Rabbis?

Sam2,

I am against giving women smicha for the sake of “equality” or “feminism” or “modernity.” I am bothered however by the way the opposition to these things are being framed. I would rather the RCA or other Torah institutions say “there is nothing wrong with a woman receiving smicha in principal, but there is something wrong with woman being given smicha shelo lishma.”