-- The modern Reform and Reconstructionist Jewish movements ordain female rabbis. -- The Conservative Jewish movement began to ordain women within the past 20 years. -- Orthodox Judaism has never ordained women.
Those are seats reserved in an Orthodox Synagogue for Men Only as opposed to Women's Seats which are reserved for Women Only. In an Orthodox Synagogue, the men and women are separated.
Orthodox Judaism doesn't recognize women rabbis, but the other branches do, and they're respected.
Men can be Rabbis in all forms of Judaism. In Liberal Judaism (Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist, etc.), women can also be Rabbis. There is currently a few practicing female clergy in Orthodox Judaism, but they are not considered Rabbis since it is forbidden for women to be Rabbis in Orthodox Judaism.
Not an Orthodox synagogue of course, but a nice pair of slacks is definitely appropriate for a Conservative or Reform synagogue.
All the branches, however, the Orthodox branch does not allow women to become pulpit rabbis.
Union of Orthodox Rabbis was created in 1901.
It's a synagogue Orthodox Jews worship in.
In Orthodox synagogues, men and women are seated separately.
No, there are female rabbis, even amongst the Orthodox. (Orthodox female rabbis aren't pulpit rabbis.)
You can tell a Orthodox Synagogue is an Orthodox Synagogue because a Orthodox Synagogue has the seats for men on the floor at the sides and the back, and the womans seats on a balcony up top, and the reading desk and the bimah are in the centre. Other than a Liberal/Reform Synagogue because a Liberal/Reform Synagogue has the men and the women sit together, and the reading desk at the side in-front of the seats for the men and women.
In Orthodox synagogues, men and women are seated separately.