The Reform rabbinate will be led by a woman for the first time. The Central Conference of American Rabbis has nominated as its president Rabbi Janet Marder, 48, currently vice president of the CCAR and senior rabbi of Congregation Beth Am in Los Altos Hills, Calif.
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