1. The Orthodox rabbinate does not recognize those performed by Reform and Conservative rabbis.

2. The traditionalist rabbinate viewed Modern Orthodoxy with a good deal of alarm.

3. And the type of proof that the rabbinate prefers is peculiarly unsuited to Jewish life in the United States.

4. At this time the father dedicates his son to the study of the Torah or to the rabbinate.

5. And conversions of the kind Mantzur wanted for his wife and daughter also must be approved by the Orthodox rabbinate.

6. This stereotypical biography did not help her any more at the rabbinate than the line on her birth certificate listing her nationality as Jewish.