Just In Time For Easter
Since we’re ecumenical folks around here, and since Tefillin Barbie is such an old friend of ours,
I thought it might be nice to note that a woman named Julie Blake Fisher has created a whole wardrobe of Episcopal Priest Barbie gear. She comes with a Roman-style cassock,
an alb and stole,
a biretta and capa nigra,
and all manner of other things.
I imagine that Tefillin Barbie and Episcopal Priest Barbie have all sorts of great conversations about various interfaith issues. It wouldn’t surprise me if they also commiserated on how annoying it is, as women of faith, to feel like they have to maintain that polite smile all the time.
Okay, if only barbie can solve that little problem women rabbis have (actually, men, too, technically) of how to dress so as to look properly clerical. I hate it when rabbis show up in a tallit to show that they’re rabbis, since all adult Jews should be wearing such things. Maybe episcopal priest barbie has some thoughts about it.
BTW, quite the clerical fashion plate that priest is….
Perhaps Episcopal Barbie and Rabbi Barbie can discuss why their denominations are shrinking so quickly in contrast to the Barbie-less clergy of the growing denominations.
Tefillin Barbie is NOT Rabbi Barbie!
A schism would seem inevitable in any church that that would ordain Barbie. It is clear that Gay and Lesbian Barbie clergy are next.
Ken as a priest-I shudder.
KRG writes:
I hate it when rabbis show up in a tallit to show that they’re rabbis, since all adult Jews should be wearing such things.
Or no adult Jews, depending on the time of day.
Judaism doesn’t have clerical garb (for women or men) because Judaism doesn’t have “clerics” the way some Christian denominations do. (Not counting the priestly vestments, of course, since those aren’t in use anymore.)
@BZ, that’s it. We’ll just have to get the Cohens to show up at all our protest marches and speak! With urim and thummim!
@bz: You say “Judaism doesn’t have clerical garb ”
So what is that costume Rav Ovadya Yosef (and all Sefardi Chief rabbis) wear?
@ME- I think they’re called “sunglasses.”