Nancy Abramson was the first female president of the

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, an international professional organization of cantors associated with Conservative Judaism; she took up that office in 2013. She served as

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for fourteen years at Park Avenue Synagogue, for twelve years at West End Synagogue in Manhattan, and for five years at Congregation Sons of Israel in

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. She is a member of the Women Cantors Network. In 2011 she became Director of the H. L. Miller Cantorial School at the Jewish Theological Seminary. She retired in 2023.

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