The Rabbinic Training Institute 2013

The Rabbinic Training Institute (RTI) will be held January 6–10, 2013, at the Pearlstone Conference Center on the outskirts of Baltimore, Maryland. The program begins at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, January 6, and concludes at 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, January 10.

Registration is $800 and is open to Rabbinical Assembly members. The cost covers:

  • Tuition
  • Double-occupancy room and board
  • Transportation from BWI airport
  • All materials used during the week

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

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Billie Di Stefano at (212) 678-8992 or bidistefano@jtsa.edu.

The 2013 faculty will include:

  • Professor Arnold M. Eisen, Chancellor, JTS
  • Mary Jo Barrett, Center for Contextual Change
  • Rabbi Eliezer Diamond, Rabbi Judah Nadich Associate Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, JTS
  • Rabbi Amy Eilberg, Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning
  • Dr. Mona Fishbane, Chicago Center for Family Health
  • Rabbi Judith Hauptman, E. Billi Ivry Professor of Talmud and Rabbinic Culture, JTS
  • Dr. Walter Herzberg, Assistant Professor of Bible and Professional and Pastoral Skills, JTS
  • Rabbi David Hoffman, Assistant Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics and Scholar-in-Residence, JTS
  • Rabbi Rolando Matalon, Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, New York, New York
  • Rabbi Jack Moline, Agudas Achim Congregation, Alexandria, Virginia
  • Larry Moses, The Wexner Foundation
  • Rabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg, Institute for Jewish Spirituality

 

For the past 27 years, JTS has been offering this continuing rabbinic education program for rabbis in the field. Run each year at full capacity, the Rabbinic Training Institute 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.

The morning sessions have attracted the brightest and most engaging minds of Judaism, matched with Fortune 500 consultants and leadership coaches during the afternoon sessions. The evening sessions are what many of the participants find most valuable, emphasizing current issues in their careers. In these smaller groups, the 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.