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Rabbi Mikę Uram has been tapped to become the ninth chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, seen at rear. (Courtesy JTS; background JTA)
May 1, 2026, 1:19 am
JTS ‘breaks mold,’ names campus innovator Rabbi Mike Uram as next chancellor
Unusually for the Conservative Judaism flagship, new head does not hold a doctorate, but after serving at JFNA and Penn Hillel, he believes his novel background will be an asset
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Hannah and Ally Karpel-Pomerantz met as rabbinical school classmates at Hebrew Union College. They are set to be ordained at the end of the school year. (Courtesy via JTA)
November 23, 2025, 3:44 am
Surging LGBTQ enrollment in Jewish seminaries signals ‘astounding’ shift in US rabbinate
A new study provides empirical evidence for a trend many have seen coming for years, as new models and broken barriers bring an influx of leadership from a once-marginalized population
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Sephardic Chief Rabbi David Yosef (right) and Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Kalman Ber (left), with Israel's President Isaac Herzog during their swearing-in ceremony at the President Residence in Jerusalem, on November 4, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
October 21, 2025, 5:51 pm
Chief Rabbinate says it’s willing to let women take some rabbinical tests
After High Court of Justice ruled it must open its exams to women, state rabbinical body asks court to hold another hearing and postpone implementation of its original ruling
By Rossella Tercatin
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
Jacob Kaplan-Lipkin and his fiancee Shira pose before Rosh Hashanah 2023 at Kibbutz Hannaton in the Jezreel Valley of Israel. (Courtesy Kaplan-Lipkin via JTA)
October 11, 2023, 6:19 am
US rabbinical students, in Israel for the year, weigh whether to stay and how to help
Most programs were just getting underway when Hamas launched its massive onslaught of terror, forcing many pupils to consider their options amid an uncertain future
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
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
K.M. DiColandrea, who goes by DiCo, reads from the Torah at Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope, Brooklyn. (Courtesy of DiColandrea/ via JTA)
May 13, 2022, 3:43 am
$1.2 million raised for ex-rabbinical student’s nonprofit after Humans of NY story
K.M. DiColandrea’s story of weathering a family illness, coming out as trans and converting to Judaism strikes a chord, and readers donate to his grassroots student debate league
By PHILISSA CRAMER
The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 21, 2019. (Warren LeMay via Creative Commons/ via JTA)
April 12, 2022, 5:46 pm
Hebrew Union College to end rabbinical program in Cincinnati
Seminary approves plan to enroll all students at HUC’s campuses in New York and Los Angeles; move comes after years of declining revenue and enrollment
By Andrew Lapin
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
Illustrative: Newly ordained rabbis from Hebrew Union College's class of 2013 in Cincinnati celebrate with their ordination certificates outside the historic Plum Street Temple. (Janine Spang/JTA)
March 24, 2022, 8:40 am
Hebrew Union College may stop ordaining Reform rabbis in Cincinnati after 147 years
As the movement’s students flock to its branches on the coasts, the HUC board is set to vote next month in NYC on a proposal to replace the current program with a low-residency one
By Andrew Lapin
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
Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli security forces in the West Bank city of Hebron, May 14, 2021. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)
May 15, 2021, 4:38 pm
Rabbinical students urge US Jews to hold Israel accountable for ‘rights abuses’
Dozens sign open letter accusing Israel of ‘violent suppression of human rights’ and enabling ‘apartheid in the Palestinian territories’
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Rabbi Jason Nevarez, toward the back in light purple shirt, with his daughter Sophie at a socially distanced meeting with synagogue staff. (Courtesy of Nevarez/ via JTA)
July 13, 2020, 1:47 am
What it’s like to start a job as a rabbi mid-pandemic
Meeting congregants and community leaders is usually a priority, but these new US clergy must acclimate while socially distancing – but also have unique opportunities for closeness
By Josefin Dolsten
Shoshanna Nambi, a rabbinical student from Uganda. (Courtesy of Nambi)
June 27, 2018, 7:40 am
This woman is studying to be the first female rabbi from Uganda
Though Israel doesn’t recognize her as Jewish, Shoshanna Nambi will attend HUC course in Jerusalem and wants to teach colleagues about Ugandan Jewish traditions
By Josefin Dolsten
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