Source: The Jerusalem Post
On March 17, 2005 The Jerusalem Post reported, "When Eveline Goodman-Thau was four in 1938, her family fled Nazi-occupied Austria to hide in the Netherlands. When this professor, mother, grandmother, activist, scholar and Holocaust survivor received private ordination in 2000 as one of the only Orthodox female rabbis in history, she said she wouldn't hide ever again, despite those that deride or oppose her. 'I always say I am a rabbi,' she says. 'But I don't want conflict or to debate Halacha; I want to serve Judaism.' Society would find nothing unusual about that desire of any other person who comes from a warm, scholarly Orthodox family, descended from a long line of rabbis and hassidic masters, unless she is a woman, she says. After moving to Jerusalem in 1956, she went on to become a scholar in Jewish studies and was active in Orthodox feminist circles, before deciding to pursue ordination much later in life."