am honored to be your host we are in the middle of a wonderful conversation with the senior rabbi emmeritus. welcome back. >> good to be back. >> you were talking about the six day war that changed gender role and authority within the jewish landscape i am wondering what was that gender shift like i think for so many people in the broader bay area, women clergy is a common place yet you embody in your life a really distinctive shift from being an all male rabbinic school class to now, women rabbis as a norm. >> all of us dressed up in dark suits all males of course when i was ordained that has changed so much over the years as you know i have been a great supporter of women colleagues in the rabbinate it has come to the point now where things are much more informal at our school conventions i still remember one of the times one of our colleagues who is a biblical scholar was nursing her baby in the back of the lecture hall. that is how far it has come that part is just wonderful. also a tremendous change in the view of let's say our lesbian and gay colleagues i remember the battles for that