A group of Southern Baptist Convention clergy are urging the denomination to reconsider an amendment that would permanently ...

NEW YORK (JTA) — The Orthodox Union will not penalize its member synagogues that already employ women as clergy, but it has reaffirmed a policy that prohibits other synagogues from hiring women ...

The O.U. decision did emphasize that women could fill a range of non-clergy roles in the synagogue, from teaching to lay leadership. And it approved of women serving as “halachic advisers ...

She spent a quarter-century as the cantor at Temple Beth El of Huntington, where she became the first female clergy member in the community, said her husband, Richard Pilatsky. Sherry died Feb. 19 ...

While she wished to see female clergy better represented, and more in senior posts, the proposed change did not address issues of failing to listen to women, she argued. “We can still enthusiastically ...