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45. Yearbook of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, Cincinnati , Vol. 23, p. 120, 1914.“Resolution on Woman Suffrage” proposed for 1913 national convention, signed by Moses P. Jacobson, Harry H. Mayer, G. Deutsch, Wm. S., Friedman, Harry Weiss, Isaac Rypins. For the rejection see p. 133.

46. Yearbook of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, Cincinnati , Vol. 25, Convention 1915, Cincinnati , 1915, p. 133.

47. Yearbook of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, Cincinnati , Vol. 27, 1917, pp.

48. This is not a complete list, but a sampling: White Slave Trade(1911), Wage Discrimination(1963), Rabbinic Family Relationships(1975), Women on the Board of Trustees(1976), Affirmative Action (1978), Patrilineal Descent (1983), Economic Justice for Women(1983), Jewish Day Care(1984), Violence Against Women(1990), Women's Health Care(1992), Abuse in the Family(1992), Women's Health(1993), Women in Professional Life(1993), Reproductive Rights Life (1993), International Women's Rights(1994), Breast Cancer(1997), Women's Rights(2008).

49. For their current legislative agenda on women's issues see their website www.Social Action Center of Reform Judaism.org

30. The Women's Rabbinic Network created in 1975 as a constituent of the Central Conference of America Rabbis continues to guide and strengthen women in the rabbinate and to deal with feminine issues.

51. James G. Heller, Isaac M. Wise— His Life, Work and Thought, New York , 1965, pp 213.

52. Ibid. pp. 568 ff. Wise mentions it casually in the introduction to his Minhag America., which gave this newly established minhag broad publicity.

53. Eleanor Flexner, A Century of Struggle- the Women's Rights Movement in the United States , New York , Atheneum, 1973, p. 143 ff.

3. For a contemporary discussion see Mark Washofsky,“Minhag and Halakhah,” in Walter Jacob and Moshe Zemer (eds.), Rabbinic- Lay Relations in Jewish Law, Pittsburgh , 1993, pp. 99 ff.