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Matters discussed include finances, rabinnical searches, purchase of land from the cemetery, election of officers, a new synagogue constitution, an annual ball, a picnic to raise funds for a gate around the temple, and many others. In September of 1921, a motion is made to investigate resigning board member "Mr. Alexander's action towards the congregation." In December of 1921, an amendment to the congregation's constitution is proposed, giving the sisterhood two seats on the board of trustees.
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The work of a coterie of dynamic women - not the brainchild of Reform Judaism's male leaders, as is often thought - Women of Reform Judaism has been a force in the shaping of American Jewish life since its founding as the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods in 1913. The synergy of Reform Judaism's universalist ideas and the women's emancipation movement in the early twentieth century made the synagogue auxiliary a natural platform for women to assume new leadership roles in their synagogues, in Reform Judaism, and in American society. These "sisterhoods" have stood for the solidarity among synagogue women as well as the commitment of these women to important social action issues. Calle...
New portrayals of the religious lives of American Jewish women from colonial times to the present.
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