![]() ![]() PRIESAND: I did open doors, but I also held the doors open for those who came after me. She had a hard enough time just getting hired to do the job she loved. PRICHEP: In 1972, Sally Priesand was not looking to transform Jewish life. NADELL: They invented a host of ceremonies and rituals to mark the events of women's lives that the male rabbis had never considered essential - the first baby girl naming ceremonies, ceremonies to mark events like miscarriage. And historian Pamela Nadell says these women changed Jewish life. PRICHEP: In the space of just a few years, centuries of tradition transformed across religions, and those that didn't started to seem out-of-step. ![]() I mean, it felt like everything was breaking open. She says this was the time of consciousness-raising groups, of national marches, of women demanding entry into all parts of life. PRICHEP: Judith Plaskow is professor emerita of Religious Studies at Manhattan College and a Jewish feminist theologian. ![]() JUDITH PLASKOW: It was impossible, in a sense, to be questioning everything about women's roles in society and not also be looking at one's religious tradition. UNIDENTIFIED PEOPLE: (Chanting) Join us now. PRICHEP: Nadell says campaigns for female clergy have gone hand-in-hand with political and social changes - in the 1920s, on the heels of suffrage in 1930s Germany, when Regina Jonas was privately ordained - she died in the Holocaust, and her story was lost for years and 50 years ago, at the height of second-wave feminism. NADELL: They're saying Judaism has made other accommodations to the modern world. PAMELA NADELL: There is nothing in Jewish law that prohibits women from becoming a rabbi, so their argument is it's only custom. Pamela Nadell directs the Jewish Studies Program at American University and has written about the fight for women's ordination. PRICHEP: While Priesand was the first American woman to become a rabbi, she was not the first to try. And I discovered that when you're the first of something, there are extra responsibilities that come along with that. PRIESAND: I became a rabbi because I wanted to be a rabbi. PRICHEP: Priesand sees herself as a relatively private person, but she became hugely public when she was ordained in 1972. And I would say, thank you for sharing your opinion. SALLY PRIESAND: There would always come a time where some person would come up to me and tell me why women shouldn't be rabbis. Deena Prichep reports on how this groundbreaking ordination changed the role of women and the course of Judaism in America.ĭEENA PRICHEP, BYLINE: Even when she was enrolled in seminary at Cincinnati's Hebrew Union College, Sally Priesand knew that a lot of people did not want to see her ordained. So it's remarkable that the first American woman was ordained as a rabbi just 50 years ago. NCIS: New Orleans, in contrast, is 15th (out of 23) in TVSeriesRatings's list of CBS scripted shows that aired on the network in the 2020-21 TV season, with an average of 4.8 million viewers.For many American Jews, seeing a female rabbi is a part of life. Last week (beginning February 8), CBS had all of the top 5 most-watched primetime programs, with NCIS, 60 Minutes, The Equalizer, FBI and Young Sheldon topping the list. Though the show has always had respectable ratings, especially against Sunday Night Football, in a bumper year for CBS shows its ratings were not enough to save the show. New Orleans also gets less than half the viewers of the original NCIS in its plum Tuesday night slot. Per TVSeriesFinale's data, an average of 750,000 fewer people watch NCIS: NOLA than watch the show directly before it on Sundays, NCIS: Los Angeles. Per TVLine, viewers are down nearly a quarter for Season 7 against Season 6, the second-highest ratings drop out of any CBS show (only The Unicorn had a higher drop-off). The main reason that the show is ending is the usual reason that such shows are axed: dwindling ratings. This means that the procedural starring Scott Bakula will end after 155 episodes-less than half the episode total managed by the mothership NCIS, which recently aired its 400th episode. CBS has announced the show has been canceled and will come to a close at the end of its current Season 7. The NCIS: New Orleans team has just celebrated their last Mardi Gras. ![]()
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