This custom is often falsely explained as having arisen in response to a man who confronted a Jewish feminist who was giving a speech and opposed the right of women to become rabbis, supposedly declaring that women had as much place on the bimah as an orange had on the seder plate.
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Susannah Heschel is Dartmouth College's Eli Black professor of Jewish Studies, an award-winning author, and the daughter of Abraham Joshua Heschel.
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In 1972 she asked the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York to consider her application to its rabbinical school, though she knew it did not ordain women at that time.
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Leonore Siegele-Wenschkewitz: Verdrängte Vergangenheit, die uns bedrängt. Feministische Theologie in der Verantwortung für die Geschichte, München 1988 (mit Aufsätzen von Jutta Flatters, Dieter Georgi, Eveline Goodman-Thau, Susannah Heschel, Katharina von Kellenbach, Luise Schottroff, Bernd und Marie-Theres Wacker; von Leonore Siegele Wenschkewitz darin der eröffnende Beitrag: Feministische Theologie ohne Antijudaismus, 12–53).