Martha Neumark

Martha Neumark (1904–1981[1]) was a notable early figure in the history of women's ordination as rabbis.

[7] The CCAR declared in a responsa in 1922, "...woman cannot justly be denied the privilege of ordination," having voted 56 to 11 in favor of that statement.

[1] Yet the board of the college still refused to consider women for ordination, voting (as Neumark recalled) six laymen to two rabbis against it.

[8] Some of her personal papers are now held in the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives at Hebrew Union College.

[10] In the early 1940s, Neumark served as the executive editor of the Independent Jewish Press Service.