(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
A resolution to grant women the right to vote in the synagogue administration was defeated by a vote of 211 to 167 at a meeting of the members of the United Synagogue Council and representatives of the synagogues affiliated with the United Synagogue held yesterday.
Despite the plea of the chairman, Sir Robert Waley Cohen, that the granting of the vote to women would not undermine traditional Judaism and that, on the contrary, the admission of women to the administration would strengthen Jewish observance, the measure was defeated.
The opponents of the resolution urged that the United Synagogue must not follow Reform tendencies. The women in the Orthodox synagogues do not want the vote, they declared and those who seek to bring women within the administration are guilty of degrading womanhood.
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