She is not Jewish. Her mother is non Jewish and later had a "conversion". Even if you hold that their conversions are real, her mother converted after she was born.
Boswell-Levy said when she met with members of the search committee, they liked that she could empathize with an interfaith family’s issues and that she enthusiastically performs interfaith weddings if the couple plans to have a Jewish home.
But she said she was initially less comfortable with the congregation’s practice of allowing a non-Jew to have an aliya, reciting the blessing before the reading of the Torah. Boswell-Levy said her attitude was: “I want someone to say a blessing appropriate to them. I wouldn’t want an atheist to do a blessing about belief in God, or a non-Jew talking about giving us the Torah.”
But then one of the non-Jewish committee members, who had brought up her children as Jews and learned the Torah blessings for her son’s bar mitzva, said, “God gave all of us the Torah.”
“It is something I still wrestle with,” said Boswell-Levy. “I feel anyone who comes up to the bima should say something they truly believe, and not do it by rote.”
At the same time, she added, she wants her congregants “to take ownership of their Judaism, to feel proud of the traditions and practices of their community, and to know why they do what they do.”
She doesn't want Non-Jews to get an aliyah but she herself is not Jewish. If she's a Feminazi, at least she used her husband's last name. When I saw it hyphenated, I thought she wanted to use her maiden name or her mother's maiden name but then I saw her husband also had the same hyphenated name unless maybe he added her last name to his.
From the descrption above, it seems that her "synagogue" is mostly made up of Non-Jews. A Non-Jew had a Bar Mitzvah and his mother also wanted an aliyah. Neither are Jewish. They make up who is a Jew.
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