Rabbah Kletenick?

This is interesting.

Rabbi Moshe Kletenick is the president of the RCA. Last week, the Agudah gleefully quoted him as saying "it is unacceptable for an Orthodox Synagogue to have a woman on its Rabbinical Staff".

When the Jewish Week questioned him about this he said "A woman can play a lot of roles, but she cannot be a Rabbi", which isn't quite the same thing.

Even more interesting, is that Kletenick's daughter Gilah was a speaker at the recent JOFA conference and is a congregational intern at the Hebrew Institute of White Plains. Apparently, a congregational intern is entirely different from a member of the rabbinic staff, although the good Rabbi declined to explain exactly what the difference is.

The difference is obvious though - a woman cannot be a member of the Rabbinical Staff, no matter what her title. However a woman can be a congregational intern. As to whether a woman can be a congregational intern, and also be called RABBAH, now that's a shailoh!

Bottom line: None of this makes the RCA or the Agudah look very credible. Or sensible.

UPDATE: She's also a founder of TEIQU. Course you can't blame a Rabbi for his daughter, or his brother.