Learn Online With Outstanding Scholars
JTS offers a host of online learning opportunities, taught by our outstanding faculty and other experts, to nourish rabbis and cantors throughout their careers, intellectually and spiritually, and prepare them to better lead and teach their communities. Jewish clergy across the globe, of all denominations, are welcome.
What We Offer
- Free webinars to support and inspire holiday sermons and teaching
- Live online courses with JTS faculty designed especially for rabbis, new every semester
- An asynchronous training course on sexuality issues for Jewish clergy—learn on your own schedule
Who It’s For
Our online programs are open to rabbis of all denominations ordained by any recognized rabbinical program. Cantors are welcome at select programs where specified.
Fees and Registration
Stand-alone webinars are free. Pricing for online courses varies.
Rabbis within five years of ordination and cantors within five years of investiture are eligible for a 50 percent discount on all JTS continuing education programs for clergy, thanks to the generosity of Michelle Kravtin Gary and Marc Gary, executive vice chancellor and chief operating officer of JTS.
Active duty military rabbis are eligible for a 50 percent discount on all JTS continuing education programs for clergy, thanks to the generosity of Michelle Kravtin Gary and Marc Gary, executive vice chancellor and chief operating officer of JTS. For active duty military rabbis who are members of the Rabbinical Assembly, the RA will subsidize the remaining 50 percent of the costs for all online rabbinic learning programs offered by JTS.
Advance registration is required for all programs.
Contact Us
For more information, contact communitylearning@jtsa.edu.
Events
Webinars for Rabbis in Preparation for the Holidays
Online | Clergy: Continuing Ed
Join JTS for these free webinars designed to inspire you as you prepare for this year’s fall holiday season.
Read MoreHoliday Webinars for Rabbis—Liturgy as Philosophy: The High Holiday Mahzor as a Source of Inspiration in Jewish Thought
Online | Clergy: Continuing Ed
In this session of “Holiday Webinars for Rabbis,” Dr. Shira Billet will introduce the idea of the siddur, and liturgy in general, as a source of philosophical reflection, and then dive into specific examples of how Jewish philosophers have found inspiration in the High Holiday liturgy
Read MoreSelected Sugyot of Masekhet Rosh Hashanah: Perspectives on Shofar
Online | Clergy: Continuing Ed
Join Dr. Marcus Mordecai Schwartz for in-depth learning and discussion about four elements of the shofar and its blasts and gain a new appreciation for the ritual of hearing the shofar.
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