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Reaching Beyond the Pay Grade(25:25)
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Rabbi Miri Gold. Photo: Facebook
VOI's Molly Livingstone is joined by Reform Rabbi Miri Gold, a pioneer on the Israeli religious scene.
In a breakthrough 2012 case brought before the Israeli Supreme Court, it was decided that non-Orthodox Rabbi Gold’s salary would be paid by the Israeli government. Never before had a rabbi outside of the realm of Orthodoxy been so legitimized by the state. Rabbi Gold describes her journey from America to Israel, and from citizen to activist. She has set a historic precedent in the advancement of religious pluralism in Israel.
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