The Rabbinic Training Institute 2012

The Rabbinic Training Institute (RTI) will be held January 8–12, 2012, at the Pearlstone Conference Center on the outskirts of Baltimore, Maryland. The program begins at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, January 8, and concludes at 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, January 12.

Registration is $750 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.

As faculty are secured, their names will be posted below. The 2012 faculty will include:

  • Professor Arnold M. Eisen, chancellor, JTS
  • Rabbi Eliezer Diamond, Rabbi Judah Nadich Associate Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, JTS
  • Reb Mimi Feigelson, Mashpiah Ruchanit and Lecturer of Rabbinic Studies, The Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies
  • Mona Fishbane, Chicago Center for Family Health
  • Deborah Grayson Riegel, head coach, myjewishcoach.com
  • Rabbi David Hoffman, scholar-in-residence, JTS
  • Rabbi Jack Moline, Agudas Achim Congregation, Alexandria, Virginia
  • Rabbi Debra Orenstein, Congregation B'nai Israel, Emerson, New Jersey
  • Nigel Savage, executive director, Hazon
  • Professor Benjamin Sommer, professor of Bible, JTS
  • Rabbi Gordon Tucker, Temple Israel Center, White Plains, New York

For the past 26 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.