Ziegler’s new tuition is $7,000 a year, down from $31,342 this year. The change makes the school just 20% the price of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City.
Reform and Conservative movements are expected to march toward the Western Wall while Haredim are arranging protests.
Rather than waiting to be allocated a community, recently-ordained entrepreneurial rabbis are building new congregations.
The campus in the Bel-Air neighborhood is home to the Conservative Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies.
If synagogues can’t be reasonably assured of rabbis from within the movement, why should they continue to pay dues to belong to it?
Many Jewish sources which favor unity are opposed to uniformity. Bemidbar Rabbah (13:15,16) for example, affirms that 'there are 70 faces to the Torah.'
Israel’s Diaspora Affairs minister today celebrates the funding of progressive groups and causes whose same antipathy for religion and tradition have decimated mainstream Judaism in America.
JPost One-on-One Zoomcast, Episode 39: Jeremy Sharon and Chief Rabbi of Shoham Rabbi David Stav on decentralizing authority over Jewish conversion.
The haredi viewpoint has beauty, as does that of the Reform Movement, of secular Judaism, and of the entire spectrum of Modern Orthodoxy
Yoaz Hendel, who is Orthodox, attended the Sutton Place Synagogue in order to make a point about inclusivity and Israel’s ties with Diaspora Jews of all denominations.