A seminary dilemma of a different sort

By Dikla Kadosh
Published on June 25, 2008

View on Eisen From L.A.: Thumbs Up

By Amy Klein
Published on April 27, 2006

Local reaction was positive -- with an element of wait and see -- to the choice of Stanford professor Arnold Eisen as the new, de facto leader of the Conservative moment. Eisen, who isn't a rabbi, will take over this summer as chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.

Student Rabbis, Cantors Take Next Step

By Julie G Fax
Published on May 19, 2005

Education

New Face of Study

By Julie G Fax
Published on December 26, 2002

Rabbi Avi Weiss left Yeshiva University (YU) in New York three years ago to found a new rabbinic school for one simple reason: "We were not graduating enough Yosefs," said Weiss, a political activist and progressive Orthodox Jewish leader.

Eulogies:Rabbi Melvin Goldstine

By Wendy J. Madnick
Published on January 17, 2002

Eulogies:Rabbi Melvin Goldstine.

A Historic Change

By Toby Axelrod
Published on October 25, 2001

History is in the making this fall in Germany with the opening of three new Jewish schools for adults.

Embezzlement Heads for Court

By Tom Tugend
Published on March 16, 2000

The former fiscal administrator for the Los Angeles campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion has been arrested and charged with embezzling $1.179 million from the Reform movement's seminary.
Jean M. Thorbourn, 61, of Sherman Oaks, forged numerous checks between 1989 and 1997, using a dean's signature stamp, and apparently applied a considerable part of the money to finance production of independent films, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney's office.

Higher Ground

By Melissa Minkin
Published on February 24, 2000

Take nearly 100 people training to be rabbis, priests, pastors, ministers, nuns and religious educators. Put them together for 24 hours at a Jewish summer camp. Add a torrent of rain, and stir in several inches of thick mud. What do you get? You never know.