Women’s Suffrage


Resolution Adopted by the CCAR

WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE

Digests of resolutions adopted by the

Central Conference of American Rabbis

between 1889 and 1974

1. Be it resolved,

That the Conference place itself on record as favoring the enfranchisement of

women.

[Your Committee recommends that we reaffirm the statement of the Conference

made at

the 1912 Convention, to the effect that this is a matter for the individual

rabbi,

and we deem it inadvisable for the Conference, as a body, to take action

thereon.]

(1915, p. 133)

2. We feel it is our solemn duty as ethical leaders and as preachers of a

religion

which has stood throughout the centuries for justice and righteousness to

assert

our belief in the justice and righteousness of the enfranchisement of the

women of

our country. (1917, p. 175)

3. See Voting Rights.