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

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Joseph
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PAA: If someone is granted smicha they by definition are entitled to call themselves and/or act as a rabbi. So women with smicha are women rabbis. And are entitled to do what men rabbis can do by virtue of their being a rabbi.

Sam: Shouldn’t those changes you speak of allow women today to be judges and witnesses? I would tend to think most women would sooner rather be able to be a witness than to be a rabbi.