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Rabbi Cohen In Tablet Magazine


Rabbi Ayelet Cohen, past Assistant Rabbi and CRRI at CBST, is in an article in Tablet Magazine.

The article, called "Supply and Demands," discusses hiring restrictions within the major movements of American Judaism.

Here's the section of the article on Rabbi Cohen and CBST:

And the idea that the movements might use their control over the hiring process to influence theological decisions by its member rabbis surfaced in 2005, when Ayelet Cohen, a Conservative rabbi, complained to the New York Times that she was being punished by the Rabbinical Assembly placement committee because she had officiated same-sex weddings. (The movement responded that Cohen was only being called out for violating the terms of a waiver allowing her to work at Congregation Beth Simchat Torah, a largely gay and lesbian Manhattan synagogue that is unaffiliated with any major movement; the Conservative movement voted the following year to allow its members to marry gay couples.)
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