The Rabbinic Training Institute 2014

The Jewish Theological Seminary's 29th Rabbinic Training Institute (RTI) will be held Sunday, January 5, through Thursday, January 9, 2014, at the Pearlstone Conference Center on the outskirts of Baltimore, Maryland. The program begins at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday and concludes at 3:00 p.m. on Thursday.

Registration is $850 and is open to Rabbinical Assembly members. The cost covers:

  • Tuition
  • Double-occupancy room and board
  • Transportation from Baltimore/Washington International (BWI) Airport and the Pearlstone Center
  • All materials used during the week

Registration for RTI is now open; download the registration form here (PDF).

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Rabbi Abigail Treu, rabbinic fellow and director of Planned Giving, and incoming national director of Torah Fund, JTS, at (212) 678-8805 or abtreu@jtsa.edu.

The 2014 faculty will include:

  • Professor Arnold M. Eisen, Chancellor, JTS
  • Mary Jo Barrett, Center for Contextual Change
  • Dr. Alan Cooper, Elaine Ravich Professor of Jewish Studies and Provost, JTS
  • Rabbi Eliezer Diamond, Rabbi Judah Nadich Associate Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, JTS
  • Dr. Mona Fishbane, Chicago Center for Family Health
  • Rabbi David Hoffman, Assistant Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics and Scholar-in-Residence, JTS
  • Rabbi Jack Moline, Agudas Achim Congregation, Alexandria, Virginia
  • Rabbi Daniel Nevins, Pearl Resnick Dean of The Rabbinical School and Dean of the Division of Religious Leadership, JTS
  • Linda Rich, Alban Institute
  • Dr. Diane Sharon, Academy for Jewish Religion

 

For the past 28 years, JTS has been offering RTI, a continuing rabbinic education program, to rabbis in the field. Run each year at full capacity, RTI accommodates Conservative rabbis at an off-site location for a week of professional and personal growth.

The strength of the Rabbinic Training Institute lies in its ability to draw leading scholars and thinkers. Participants will engage in serious learning with world-renowned scholars, focus on practical skills in a developing rabbinate, and discuss spiritual issues that practicing rabbis face.

RTI morning sessions attract the brightest and most engaging minds of Judaism, who are then matched with Fortune 500 consultants and leadership coaches during the afternoon sessions. Particularly valuabe to RTI participants are the evening meetings. In these smaller groups, participants can engage each other—as well as the professional facilitator—to focus their thinking and decision making on how to manage present issues in their rabbinates.