Timeline

JTS is founded to train rabbis for the Conservative Movement

Josephine Lazarus and Henrietta Szold address the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago

Hadassah is founded by Henrietta Szold, who had previously attented JTS

Women's League for Conservative Judaism is founded by Mathilde Schechter (wife of Solomon Schechter)

The first bat mitzvah in America is held for Judith Kaplan

JTS's faculty senate votes to admit women for rabbinical training

JTS admits eighteen women into The Rabbinical School

Amy Eilberg is ordained the first Conservative woman rabbi

Amy Eilberg is appointed as the first woman to serve on the Rabbinical Assembly's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards

JTS has ordained more than 150 women rabbis