The New York Times has an article about Nelson Mandela serving as an inspiration for Sara Hurwitz, the dean of Yeshivat Maharat.
For Ms. Hurwitz, born and raised in South Africa during the turbulent years of apartheid, Mr. Mandela had long served as the inspiration for her journey to breaking the gender barrier in the Orthodox Jewish rabbinate.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/27/us/a-jewish-pathbreaker-inspired-by-her-countryman-mandela.html?_r=0
Harry Maryles wrote in the Jewish Press,
"The truth is that there are Halachic issues with female rabbis."
..."What is gained on some sort of equal rights way is lost by the radical departure from normative Orthodoxy."
http://www.jewishpress.com/blogs/haemtza/the-maharat-wonderful-achievement-bad-idea/2013/05/16/
The Rabbinical Council of America issued a statement about the ordination of women "as clergy" and concluded, "The RCA views this event as a violation of our mesorah (tradition) and regrets that the leadership of the school has chosen a path that contradicts the norms of our community."
http://www.rabbis.org/news/article.cfm?id=105753
Nelson Mandela and Sara Hurwitz?
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