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Following is a listing of rabbinical schools, organized by denomination.The emphasis of the training will differ correspondingly: Orthodox Semikha centers on the study of Talmud-based halacha (Jewish law), while in other programs, the emphasis may shift to "the other functions of a modern rabbi such as preaching, counselling, and pastoral work.” [1] [2] Conservative Yeshivot occupy a ...
Rabbi Chaim Brovender is the Rosh Yeshiva of WebYeshiva.org and President of ATID. He is the founding Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Hamivtar and Michlelet Bruria (today, Midreshet Lindenbaum). [16] Rabbi Brovender was one of the first Orthodox Jewish rabbis to teach Talmud to women, [17] and most WebYeshiva classes have both male and female students.
The Association for Jewish Outreach Programs, (formerly the Association for Jewish Outreach Professionals), [1] also known by its abbreviation AJOP, [2] is an Orthodox Jewish network which was established to unite and enhance the Jewish educational work of rabbis, rebbetzens, lay people, and volunteers who work in a variety of settings and seek to improve and promote Jewish Orthodox outreach ...
A rabbi (/ ˈ r æ b aɪ /; Hebrew: רַבִּי, romanized: rabbī) is a spiritual leader or religious teacher in Judaism. [1] [2] One becomes a rabbi by being ordained by another rabbi—known as semikha—following a course of study of Jewish history and texts such as the Talmud.
Steven Blane is an American rabbi, cantor and recording singer-songwriter.. Rabbi Blane, a Universalist rabbi and cantor, conducts his teaching and pastoral work online. He is the founder and dean of the Jewish Spiritual Leaders Institute, an online, one-year rabbinical school, and founder and spiritual leader of Sim Shalom Synagogue, an interactive Universalist cyber-synagogue that offers ...
Photo of Martha Neumark published in Chicago Sentinel. Martha Neumark was the daughter of a professor at Hebrew Union College of Reform Judaism.In 1921, Neumark became the first female student at Hebrew Union College to declare her desire to become a rabbi.
Ilan Daniel Feldman is an American Orthodox Jewish rabbi, [2] public speaker and author. Since 1991 he has been the senior rabbi and spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Jacob of Atlanta, Georgia, succeeding his father, Emanuel Feldman, who founded and led the congregation for 39 years. [3] Feldman brought a community kollel to the city. [4]
Priesand did not become Bat Mitzvah but was confirmed and continued her religious school education through the twelfth grade. [8] At the age of 16, she decided she wanted to be a rabbi. [9] She later described her decision to become a rabbi as "an affirmation of my belief in God, in the worth of each individual, and in Judaism as a way of life ...