Reconstructionists to accept rabbinical applicants with non-Jewish partners
The Reconstructionist movement will accept rabbinical applicants who have non-Jewish partners.
The Reconstructionist movement will accept rabbinical applicants who have non-Jewish partners.
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.
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.
History is in the making this fall in Germany with the opening of three new Jewish schools for adults.
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.\nJean 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.
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.