Cantors

Noa gave workshops to cantors, choral directors, teachers and musicians from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Israel, Mexico, Panama, Uruguay and the United States during her visit.

Today, Rabbinical Assembly and Cantors Assembly committees — as well as synagogue committees and boards themselves — work hard for balance between men and women, with women just as likely as men to head these groups.

As such, they do not prohibit ordination of openly gay, lesbian, and bisexual people as rabbis and cantors.

Besides the RA, the international Cantors Assembly supplies prayer leaders for congregations worldwide.

Both places ordain women as well as men as rabbis, and do not ordain cantors of either sex.

Cantors do provide leadership of actual services, primarily because of their training and expertise in the music and prayer rituals pertaining to them, rather than because of any spiritual or "sacramental" distinction between them and the laity.

Cantors have sometimes been the only functionaries of a synagogue, empowered to undertake religio-civil functions like witnessing marriages.

Four years later, in 2014, it celebrated its first ordination of four rabbis and three cantors since the Second World War.

In addition to training and ordaining women and openly LGBT people as rabbis and cantors, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion has trained and ordained openly transgender people as rabbis (see Elliot Kukla and Reuben Zellman ).

In Germany, in the 12th and 13th centuries, women's prayer groups were led by female cantors.

It lifted most restrictions on homosexual conduct and opened the way to the ordination of openly gay/lesbian/bisexual rabbis and cantors and acceptance of homosexual unions, but stopped short of religiously recognizing same-sex marriage.

Kohanim, who must avoid contact with dead human body parts (such as the removed foreskin) for ritual purity, cannot act as mohels, but some mohels are also either rabbis or cantors.

These seminaries are accepted by all non-Orthodox rabbis as valid rabbinical seminaries, and they all ordain women as well as men (and openly LGBT people) as rabbis and cantors.

UTJ only ordains men as rabbis and cantors, and does not ordain openly LGBT men.

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