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Rabbi Zecharias Frankel established the Positive-Historical School in 1836 when he accepted the post of chief rabbi in the Kingdom of Saxony. He launched the magazine Zeitschrift für die Religiösen Interessen des Judenthums in December 1843 to present his approach.
Leaders largely avoided defining clear creeds until 1985, when a course about Conservative theology opened at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. A Statement of Principles titled Emet ve-Emunah appeared in 1988 to articulate beliefs about God, revelation, and election.
Every responsum must receive a minimum of six voters from the 25 voting legalistic specialists to be considered an official position of the committee. New statues require a simple majority of 13 supporters among the 25 members of the CJLS.
A motion adopted in 1983 allowed women rabbinic ordination based on arguments that women may bless when performing positive time-bound commandments. This decision followed earlier rulings such as the 1950 ruling that using electricity did not constitute kindling a fire unto itself.
Shuly Rubin Schwartz became the current chancellor of the JTS in 2020 as the first woman elected to this position. She leads the institution alongside the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem and the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles.