Complex sentence: Her appointment as an intern makes BDJ the seventh Open Orthodox synagogue to appoint a female to their clergy staff, despite the Orthodox Union and the Rabbinical Council of America both explicitly prohibiting these types of appointments.
Split into simpler sentences: Her appointment as an intern makes BDJ the seventh Open Orthodox synagogue to appoint a female to their clergy staff. The Orthodox Union and the Rabbinical Council of America have both explicitly prohibited these types of appointments.