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...Conservatives, however, still lag behind Judaism's Reform wing, which began ordaining women in 1972, and the tiny, liberal Reconstructionist movement, which first accepted women rabbis in 1974. Today there are 73 female rabbis in the U.S. and Canada, and a number of them, in fact, are serving in Conservative synagogues. Although the 1,200-member Rabbinical Assembly, the organization of Conservative rabbis, has favored the ordination of women for years, it left the final decision to J.T.S., the intellectual center of the 100-year-old Conservative movement. In 1979 the seminary's faculty put off making...
...Advocacy of a literacy test for voters. Interviewed by the magazine Reconstructionist, McManus said "we don't feel just anyone should be allowed to vote...
...temper of the times, wrote Federal Judge Leon Yankwich in a 1938 law-review article, Johnson refused to "sanction extreme measures against the defeated South." A flood of congressional resentment finally broke over him in 1868 after he tried to fire Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War and hard-line Reconstructionist, who had become an angry Johnson...
...quorum for a religious service (minyan) is ten men, and-except among Reconstructionist Jews, who hold men and women equal-no number of women can make up for one absent man. In Orthodox synagogues, women are seated separately, and in Jerusalem they must worship separately at the Wailing Wall. Though women in Israel have fully equal secular rights and are even subject to compulsory military service, Orthodox control of such social institutions as marriage clearly favors the man. In the strict interpretation of the law, for instance, only a husband can grant a divorce. The Orthodox male attitude is perhaps...
...Supreme Court decision-while he was an editor of America. Work began in 1961 after Father Abbott had been joined by Dr. Rolfe Lanier Hunt, a Methodist educator, the Rev. J. Carter Swaim, a Biblical scholar and Presbyterian pastor, and Rabbi Arthur Gilbert, now dean of the Jewish Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia...