Last month saw the anniversaries of two great leaps forward for women in American Judaism: It was 50 years since the ordination of the first American woman rabbi, Sally Priesand, and 100 years since the first bat mitzvah. It seemed like a good opportunity to talk gender issues with the rabbis, though we didn't know at the time just how timely gender issues would be. Who knew that this would also be the month when women's rights gave signs of being about to collapse?