Because it is important that our frum doctors and lawyers and other professionals also be offered the opportunity to become equally accomplished in limudei kodesh. Within a few years, more than 50 percent of new professional degrees will be awarded to women. That is not meant to reflect negatively on those young Jewish women who prefer to spend a year in seminary and then marry, stay at home and have a family. But although the numbers are still relatively small, they are growing rapidly both in EY and here in the U.S. Denying them the opportunity to have grown in limudei kodesh at a younger age makes no sense.
