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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 566

rabbinical school

Illustrative: Cantors and rabbis are ordained at a ceremony at Berlin’s Rykestrasse synagogue, September 5, 2024. In all, 55 candidates have been ordained since Geiger College opened in 1999. (Toby Axelrod/ JTA)
September 13, 2024, 8:15 am
Riven by scandal and uncertainty, a German Jewish community welcomes moment to celebrate
As Abraham Geiger College marks the graduation of 8 rabbis and cantors, its future remains precarious following its founder’s departure after accusations of misconduct
By Toby Axelrod
Andrew Rehfeld delivers his inaugural address as president of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion at the Plum Street Temple in Cincinnati, Ohio, October 27, 2019. (Courtesy of HUC)
June 21, 2024, 10:06 am
Hebrew Union College rabbinical school to admit students in interfaith relationships
Policy change brings seminary in line with norms across Reform movement, where intermarriage is common; students with children must pledge to raise them as Jews
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Participants in chevruta, or partnered study, during Azara's summer orientation. (Ben Schwaub via JTA)
July 16, 2023, 4:09 am
A non-denominational yeshiva opens in Scotland, inspired by models in US and Israel
While such programs have existed for more than a decade, Azara is perhaps Europe’s first, hoping to offer a pluralistic space for intensive study of Talmud and other holy books
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Illustrative: A service at the Abraham Geiger College in Potsdam near Berlin. (photo credit: Margrit Schmidt)
March 9, 2023, 2:26 pm
10 months into leadership crisis, more strife over German rabbinical schools’ future
After scandal-ridden Rabbi Walter Homolka left the schools he founded and led, the community that bought him out is sparring with Germany’s biggest Jewish group over funding
By Toby Axelrod
Groom breaking a glass at a Jewish wedding. (illustrative photo: PavlovskiJenya/iStock by Getty)
February 5, 2023, 10:26 pm
Boston’s Hebrew College will now ordain rabbinical students with non-Jewish partners
The decision makes the pluralistic institution only the second major rabbinical school in the United States to do away with rules that bar dating or marrying non-Jews
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Rabbi Walter Homolka (2-R), Rector of the Abraham Geiger College, rabbi Walter Jacob (R), President of the Abraham Geiger College, and rabbi Denise L. Eger (2-L), President of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR), in the Liberal Jewish community’s synagogue in Hanover, Germany, in 2016. (Photo by Julian Stratenschulte/picture alliance via Getty Images)
January 14, 2023, 4:04 am
In twist, scandal-plagued German rabbi cedes rabbinical schools to Berlin Jews
Walter Homolka suddenly sells stake in two institutions housed in the University of Potsdam after sexual harassment investigation against his husband reveals a wider abuse of power
By Toby Axelrod
Illustrative: A service at the Abraham Geiger College in Potsdam near Berlin. (photo credit: Margrit Schmidt)
June 3, 2022, 2:58 pm
Interim head of scandal-ridden German seminary doesn’t commit to replacing top rabbi
Gabriele Thöne says she is committed to a thorough investigation, but is mum about Rabbi Walter Homolka, who is at the center of allegations of sexual harassment and abuse of power
By Toby Axelrod
An aerial view of American Jewish University's Sunny & Isadore Familian Campus in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles. (Courtesy of Communications Department, AJU/ via JTA)
March 25, 2022, 9:21 pm
One of 2 Conservative US rabbinical schools is slashing tuition — by nearly 80%
The Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies has lowered its tuition to $7,000 amid dwindling attendance and fewer rabbinical students overall, in the hopes of setting an upward trend
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Amanda Beckenstein Mbuvi had been a faculty member at High Point University in North Carolina. (Reconstructing Judaism)
June 19, 2021, 5:06 am
Black Jewish Bible scholar to lead Reconstructionist rabbinical school
In a first for American Jewish movements, Amanda Beckenstein Mbuvi will head institution outside Philadelphia
By Gabe Friedman
Students participating in a learning session at Svara. (Jess Benjamin/via JTA)
April 28, 2019, 9:59 pm
A Chicago space for LGBTQ Jews becomes a ‘queer yeshiva for everybody’
Since ordination of non-heterosexual rabbis has been accepted in non-Orthodox denominations, Svara has been able to focus on revolutionizing the wider Jewish community
By Josefin Dolsten
Alan Abrams
October 3, 2017, 8:19 am
Alan Abrams
A rabbi must know more than Jewish texts
Israel needs a new rabbinical school to train rabbis from all denominations for their practical and pastoral roles
Rabbi Sarah Mulhern with her husband Rabbi Will Friedman and newborn baby. (Courtesy of Mulhern/via JTA)
July 5, 2017, 3:20 am
Most rabbinical schools lack parental leave policies — and students are not happy about it
While individual professors are generally accommodating, lack of structured arrangement leaves many new parents to fend for themselves
By Ben Sales
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