JTS Resources for Rabbis

JTS supports rabbis of all denominations at every stage of their careers and journeys. We offer programs to foster your own personal, spiritual, and intellectual growth, as well as a rich variety of learning materials you can bring to your community. Explore how JTS can be your lifelong resource for sophisticated, meaningful learning.

Online Learning for Rabbis

• Holiday Webinars: A free annual series, designed to inspire your derashot and teaching on the holidays. 
• Online Mini-Courses: A year-round series of live, text-based courses that are open to all, with select courses offered at a higher level for rabbis and others with advanced text skills.
• JTS Torah Online: A vast online archive of numerous divrei Torah for every parashah and holiday and a wealth of other content from JTS scholars.

Retreats and Conferences

• The Rabbinic Training Institute (RTI): The premier continuing education program for Conservative rabbis in the field, meeting each January. Five transformative days of intellectual, professional, and spiritual growth facilitated by leading scholars and teachers.
• Summer Rabbinic Learning Conference: A 48-hour intensive learning experience on our New York campus, exploring a different theme each July.

Center for Pastoral Education

Every day, spiritual leaders are called on to provide comfort, guidance, and support to people in crisis. JTS’s Center for Pastoral Education has set a new standard in preparing them to receive these calls, through a transformative educational process that is grounded in Jewish tradition, and open and relevant to people of all faiths. We offer a variety of clinical programs as well as flexible online options.

Curricula and Teaching Resources

JTS comes to Jewish communities across North America with rich content that rabbis can flexibly incorporate into existing adult learning frameworks.

Turnkey Courses:
Robust toolkits containing everything you need to teach substantive, thought-provoking adult education courses—including video lectures, study texts, hevruta questions, and extensive leader’s guides. Courses include:

• The Ethical Life: Jewish Values in an Age of Choice
• Beyond Dispute: Debates That Shape Jewish Life

Conservative Judaism Today and Tomorrow:
Chancellor Arnold Eisen’s collection of short essays exploring Jewish belief, practice, community, and identity in the 21st century—with discussion questions for both adult education groups and leadership groups such as synagogue boards.

Other Curricular Resources:

• The Jewish Ethical Wills Project
• Sharing the Well: A Resource Guide for Jewish-Muslim Engagement

For Your Community

• Livestreamed lectures: Our public events feature scholars, writers, artists, and community leaders who bring Jewish values and themes into dialogue with contemporary issues. Host a local screening for your community.
• Parashah commentary: Join the many congregations who distribute print copies of our weekly parashah insights on Shabbat mornings—or share them with your constituents digitally.
• Podcasts: JTS learning on-the-go—from in-depth topical explorations to our weekly parashah commentaries and dramatic readings of the haftarot.
• Bring a JTS scholar to your community: We work with synagogues and other organizations to create customized programs, both online and in-person—lectures, courses, speaker series, and scholar-in-residence weekends—that respond to the intellectual and spiritual interests of your community.  

Contact Us

To learn more, contact us at rabbinicresources@jtsa.edu.