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.