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By THOMAS BARTLETT
The Jewish Theological Seminary, considered the flagship institution for Conservative Judaism, will begin accepting gay and lesbian students into its rabbinical and cantorial schools, effective immediately, the institution’s chancellor-elect announced on Monday.
The decision followed a ruling in December by the movement’s highest legal body that allowed the ordination of gay rabbis but left it up to the seminaries to decide whether to do so. While that ruling paved the way for the change, discussion of the issue had been going on for a quite a while at the seminary, according to Arnold M. Eisen, the chancellor-elect. “It was a very long, deliberate, and thoughtful process of consultation,” he said.
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