A Conservative rabbi is running a marathon to honor the movement’s first ordination of a female rabbi. Lisa Gelber, associate dean of the Jewish Theological Seminary, will run in the Nike 26.2: A Marathon for Women to Benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
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