How could a Conservative rabbi have come to such views?
In 1982 the rule changed and women were allowed to go into study to become Conservative rabbis.
She was trained in the ritual part by a Conservative rabbi.
The brothers prepare meat under the supervision of a Conservative rabbi.
For fifty years he trained two generations of future Conservative rabbis.
The decision led more than a decade later to the body's decision to allow women to be Conservative rabbis.
The assembly is the international organization of Conservative rabbis.
Fewer than one out of three Conservative rabbis agreed.
However, many Conservative rabbis, including some on the movement's own law committee, had growing misgivings about the clause for religious reasons.
There were no schools training Conservative rabbis that accepted women at that time.