The Faculty Senate of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America voted 34-8 at a special meeting convened Monday by JTS chancellor Gerson Cohen to admit women to the Seminary’s rabbinical school, effective with the start of the 1984-85 academic year. The vote, which reportedly was boycotted by three members of the Talmudic department, ended a vigorous debate of more than half a decade over ordaining women as Conservative rabbis.
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