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This Woman Broke A 3,000-Year-Old Glass Ceiling. No Wonder There Was Such A Firestorm.

3,000 years of Orthodox Judaism and no female rabbi - until now. Sara faced a firestorm within the Jewish community in the Bronx, New York - and throughout the world - when she became a "Rabba."

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