THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
24 Friday, August 15, 1975
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1973 Decision on Women Fails
Caricatures to Stir Conservative Judaism
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By BEN GALLOB
(Copyright 1975, JTA, Inc.)
By
SAM FIELD
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The controversial 1973
decision to permit women in
Conservative congregations
to be counted in the minyan
— which continues to roil
some Conservative rabbis —
has resulted in "very little
ferment and much apathy"
in those congregations
about the ruling, according
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CONGREGATION
BETH ABRAHAM-HILLEL
5075 W. Maple Rd.
W. Bloomfield
to a survey made by the
Women's League for Con-
servative Judaism.
Results of the 1974 survey
were described in the cur-
rent issue of the Women's
League "Outlook."
Mrs. Jerome Dick re-
ported that sonic practices
providing a significant role
for women members "have
been almost universally ac-
cepted within the Conserva-
tive movement." Mixed seat-
ing is "an accepted and
expected situation."
A widow or a single
woman may become a
member of a congregation
"with full rights, privi-
leges and responsibili-
ties." The Conservative
synagogue religious school
"provides • not only equal
educational opportunities
but the same curriculum"
for both boys and girls,
"which leads directly to
the fact that Bat Mitzva
has become firmly estab-
lished, although the mode
of observance is varied."
While only 21 Conserva-
tive congregations were re-
ported to have or have had
women presidents, women
have been elected to the
other most important of-
fices and significant chair-
manships in more than two-
thirds of the 437 responding
synagogues.
Slightly more than a
fourth of the responding
synagogues do not give hus-
band and wife individual
voice and vote but, Mrs.
Dick noted, in many syn-
agogues, husband and wife
have equal congregational
status in a ballot represent-
ing a family vote.
The poll showed that
women are a position to
"influence action and to
guide or initiate policy" on
ritual practices in 92 per-
cent of the responding con-
gregations, through election
as officers or appointment
as chairmen or members of
religious or ritual commit-
tees, but there nevertheless
seemed to be "very little fer-
ment and much apathy in
the area of religious ritual,"
according to Mrs. Dick.
Only 23.8 percent of the
responding congregations
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count women in a quorum
for a minyan. Only 19.9
percent ask a woman —
other than the Bat Mitzva
— "to chant a Haftorah."
Only 16.8 percent ask
women — again other than
the Bat Mitzva — to serve
as cantor, the poll showed.
In sharp contrast to com-
plaints by some Conserva-
tive rabbis that the decision
on women as possible min-
yan members was a step in
the direction of Reform Ju-
daism and that the decision
had embroiled them in con-
gregational battles between
friends and foes of the deci-
sion, Mrs. Dick declared it
was "surprising" that so few
Consei'vative congregations
seemed even to he discuss-
ing that decision and other
ritual practices affecting
women members.
The poll found that only
41 of the responding syn-
agogues — "barely 10 per-
cent" — reported that they
had the counting of women
for a minyan "under discus-
sion."
Two-thirds of the re-
sponding synagogues re-
ported that aliyot were not
given to women members,
other than to a Bat Mitzva ;
while only 31 congregations
— 71/2 percent — had that
practice under discussion.
Mrs. Dick asserted that
the findings "strongly sug-
gest" an "overwhelming" si-
lent majority which seemed
to be "somewhat unmoved"
by the resolution of the
Committee on Law and
Standards of the Rabbinical
Assembly, the association
of Conservative rabbis, re-
garding "a more active role
for women in the rituals of
the synagogue, or by the
hue and cry which seem to
be emanating from what is
evidently a small percentage
of our Conservative
women."
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