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Reform Judaism has accepted a handful of female cantors, and will this year have its first woman rabbi: Sally Priesand, 25, who will be ordained in June. But only since World War II have some Conservative Jewish synagogues permitted women to be called to pronounce the blessing over the Torah. Orthodox Judaism does not permit even that, and moreover still decrees that women must sit apart from men in the synagogues...
...Reform Jews, the most liberal in observance of the three main Jewish groups, appear to be breaking some millennia-old barriers. In 1955, Mrs. Betty Robbins became the first known Jewish woman cantor. Now 24-year-old Sally Priesand, in her fourth year of study at Cincinnati's Hebrew Union College, is determined to become a rabbi-an innovation that even many Reform leaders oppose...
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