Background
He was born in New York in 1924.
He was born in New York in 1924.
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 After years of discussion, the JTS faculty voted to ordain women as rabbis and as cantors in 1983.
Cohen died in New York in 1991.
