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Conservatives Differ on
the Ordination of Women

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KIAMESHA LAKE
(JTA) — Rabbinical and lay
leaders of Conservative
Judaism expressed oppos-
ing viewpoints on the deci-
sion of the Jewish Theologi-
cal Seminary of America fa-
culty to admit women to the
JTS Rabbinical School for
ordination, but more sup-
port than opposition appa-
rently was voiced.
The discussion on the or-
dination of women as Con-
servative rabbis took place
last week at the final ses-
sion of the 1983 biennial
convention of the United
Synagogue of America, at-
tended by 2,000 delegates.
Rabbi Kassel Abelson of
Minneapolis said that Oct.
24, the day the JTS faculty
senate voted to accept
women for ordination, was
"a watershed date, the be-
ginning of the end of a long
era of gradual development
and the start of a new era of
creative responsibilities."
But he cautioned that
Conservative women
rabbis would be expected
to shoulder the same ob-
ligations, in terms of ob-
serving the rituals of the
rabbinate, as their male
counterparts.
Max Goldberg, president
of the United Synagogue
Seaboard region, said the
Conservative movement
"has again opted for credi-
bility and practicality."
Predicting that women rah=
bis would be "a positive
force in the pulpit and in the
Jewish community," he cal-
led the JTS faculty decision
"an act of courage."
Rabbi David Novak of Far
Rockaway, N.Y., an adam-
ant foe of such ordination,
called the Oct. 24 decision a
violaton of Halakha, warn-
ing its effect would be to
weaken traditional
Judaism and strengthen a
new organization in the
movement, the Union for
Traditional Conservative
Judaism, of which he is
head.
Abelson and Novak both
are members of the Com-
mittee on Law and Stan-
dards of the Rabbinical As-
sembly, the association of
Conservative rabbis.
Ernest Greenwald of
Silver Spring, Md., Un-
ited Synagogue financial
secretary, said he agreed
with Novak, but rejected
the idea that the decision,
or any other controver-
sial decision, would split
the movement. He said
"there is room for all of
us" in the United
Synagogue and in Con-
servative Judaism.

Dr. Simon Greenberg,
JTS vice chancellor, declar-
ing that the movement was
"in the midst of a creative
renaissance," said about the
discussion of women rabbis,
that "there is no forum in
the world where the kind of
discussion heard at this
convention could have been
held with such mutual re-
spect and affection."
Marshall Wolke of
Chicago, who was reelected
for a second two-year term
as United Synagogue presi-

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dent, asserted that Conser-
vative Judaism was not a
"one-issue movement."
He said that he did not
feel a member's opinion on
the question of women rab-
bis was the "criterion for
being a good Conservative
Jew." He said the "essence"
of the movement was "ob-
servance of tradition and
ritual, ethical living, study
of the Torah and commit-
ment to the Jewish people."

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