Unusually, it looks like the WRN website is the one in error. Its own official history by Carole Balin states: "The first such recorded meeting took place on February 8, 1976, when fifteen female rabbis and rabbinical students of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion's New York campus, Philadelphia's Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, and independent ordaining organizations gathered to "investigate topics of general concern." See an article by Carol Balin, at http://data.ccarnet.org/journa...
In reply to <p>The Women's Rabbinic by Anne Mintz
Unusually, it looks like the WRN website is the one in error. Its own official history by Carole Balin states: "The first such recorded meeting took place on February 8, 1976, when fifteen female rabbis and rabbinical students of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion's New York campus, Philadelphia's Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, and independent ordaining organizations gathered to "investigate topics of general concern." See an article by Carol Balin, at http://data.ccarnet.org/journa...