June 13, 2008
Source: The Star Tribune
When Rabbi Stacy Offner leaves Shir Tikvah Congregation in Minneapolis in two weeks to become vice president of the Union for Reform Judaism, she will become the highest-ranking female Jewish clergy in North America.
"Hmmm," she said when a visitor mentioned this fact. "I guess you're right, but I've never thought of it in those terms."
Offner, 52, has spent her career -- if not her entire life -- not thinking of things the way other people do. It goes back to when she decided as a youngster that she was going to be a rabbi. The fact that there were no female rabbis at the time never entered into her planning.