Vision
To be a center of engaged, integrated Jewish scholarship, religious life, and community; one that meets the yearning of today’s Jews for intellectual and spiritual nourishment, prepares learned and innovative leaders, models nuanced discourse, and inspires action to heal a troubled world.
Mission
As a preeminent institution of Jewish higher education, The Jewish Theological Seminary integrates rigorous academic scholarship, teaching, discourse, and religious practice in order to strengthen Jewish tradition, Jewish lives, and Jewish communities in the broadest possible sense. JTS achieves this by:
- Educating rabbis, cantors, scholars, educators, communal professionals, and lay leaders who are inspired by our vision and dedicated to sharing it throughout the world.
- Fostering the search for intellectual, religious, and emotional truths, and articulating a nuanced vision of Judaism that is spiritually rich, complex, ever evolving, and thoroughly grounded in Jewish texts, history, ideas, practice, and values.
- Integrating the wisdom of our past with that of contemporary society and sharing this wisdom with others in order to ensure the flowering of Judaism and the Jewish people worldwide and to enrich the broader community.
