God has a Sense of Humor

So, we went to a Reform synagogue led by a female rabbi. Had no idea there would be such a thing in Jerusalem. Women and men sharing leadership and the reading (singing) of the Torah, babies were blessed, a young woman read in public for the first time, we were warmly welcomed with English copies of the liturgy so that we could better understand the Hebrew, and the reading was from the Book of Esther. I left feeling like I had really been to church, maybe for the first time in two weeks. Ironic, no?