As someone who was raised Jewish (Reform), and knows a lot of Jews of many “varieties,” I say this half-jokingly: You could ask five different Jews that question and get five different answers.
Many of the rabbis that I know (and many Jewish scholars that I have met), are often very malleable with their beliefs and interpretation of the Torah. They love to find the deeper meanings and various interpretations in nearly everything (seriously, go to a rabbi with some OT questions, and they’ll keep you there for hours with different ways to interpret the same thing – it’s really enjoyable, and many delight in the study, discussion, and debate of the Torah).
There are some things that are face-value where you can get pretty much universal agreement (what is kosher, what is trayf), but where things are not completely clear and might even
chance to be allegorical, the sky is the limit as far as interpretations. Remember, there are as many types of Jews as there are Christians.
Example: I was raised Reform, since my mother is a Catholic, and according to “Jewish Law,” I’m not Jewish and never was, even though I had a Bar Mitzvah (mother has to be Jewish per the “rules”). My father was raised Conservative, and over the course of my life, I have known everything from Reform Jews to Satmars, and lots in-between. I’ve been to synagogues where they had a female cantor. Then I went to one with a female rabbi! For some Jews, that’s kosher
D), for others, that’s utter heresy.
tl;dr answer to your question: Depends on which Jew you ask.
