9. In view of the Messianic end and object of Jewish history, we fee bound to do our utmost to make our religious truth and our sacred missior understood to all and appreciated by all, whether Jew or Gentile; to improve anc reform our religious forms and habits of life so as to render them expressive of the great cosmopolitan ideas pervading Judaism and to bring about the fulfillment o the great prophetic hope and promise“that the house of God should be the house of prayer for all nations."
10. Seeing in the present crisis simply the natural consequences of ¢ transition from a state of blind authority- belief and exclusion- to a rational grasp and humanitarian conception and practice of religion, we consider it a matter of the utmost necessity to organize a Jewish mission for the purpose of enlightening the masses about the history and the mission of the Jewish people and elevating their social and spiritual condition through press, pulpit and school.
57. Walter Jacob (ed.), The Changing World of Reform Judaism— The Pittsburgh Platform in Retrospect.
59. The Board of the College could not make up its mind originally and so askec for a faculty opinion in spring of 1921. Lauterbach, although opposed, reluctantly proposed that women be ordained as“Reform Judaism has in many other instances departed from traditional practice...” In the summer Lauterbach read his reponsun to the convention of the Central Conference; following a heated discussion, the convention voted fifty-six to eleven for the ordination of women. The matter ther came back to the Board of Governors of the College in February of 1923 anc despite the faculty and Rabbinic vote decided against ordination. See Michae A.Meyer,“A Centennial History,” in Samuel Karff(ed.), Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion at One Hundred Years, Cincinnati , 1976.