All denominations of Judaism except for Orthodox Judaism ordain female rabbis and cantors. Most Conservative seminaries ordain women and openly LGBT people as rabbis and cantors. All Reform seminaries ordain women and openly LGBT people as rabbis and cantors. J Street's rabbinic cabinet consists of North American rabbis, cantors and cantorial students. In contemporary Orthodox Judaism, women are forbidden from becoming rabbis or cantors. Rabbis, cantors and teachers hailed from Poland and Germany. In Conservative Judaism, both men and women are ordained as rabbis and cantors. Both men and women may be rabbis or cantors. As of 2007, 520 ordained rabbis and 179 invested cantors have been women. He explained that he had seen emotional intensity like Jolson's only among synagogue cantors. Nowadays the Orthodox churches maintain chanting schools in which new cantors are trained. In the US, some institutions "ordain" cantors (i.e. grant them ), while others "invest" them. Algerian cantors from France and Israel attended. As of 2011, a decision has been made to "ordain" rather than "invest" cantors. These communities could no longer relate to the European-trained cantors of their communal past.