Gerson D. Cohen
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Gerson D. Cohen was a Jewish historian, a Conservative rabbi, and the Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America from 1972-1986. He was born in New York in 1924. He was especially known for ordaining the first female rabbi in Conservative Judaism in 1985.[1] He appointed a special commission to study the issue of ordaining women as rabbis, which met between 1977 and 1978, and consisted of 11 men and three women; the women were Marian Siner Gordon, an attorney, Rivkah Harris, an Assyriologist, and Francine Klagsbrun, a writer.[2] After years of discussion, the JTS faculty voted to ordain women as rabbis and as cantors in 1983.[3]
Cohen died in New York in 1991.
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