 In 1961 the synagogue began granting women some pulpit honors , giving the Sisterhood President gelila , and in 1966 granting married couples hagbaha and gelila ( the honors of lifting and re @-@ wrapping the Torah after it has been read ) . In the 1970s , women became more involved in the synagogue 's political and religious activities : in 1972 , the first woman was elected to the board of trustees , and in 1975 , the congregation began calling women to the Torah and counting women in the minyan , the latter just two years after the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly voted nine to four in favor of this innovation . 
