About RTI
The Rabbinic Training Institute is the premier continuing education program for Conservative and Masorti rabbis in the field, bringing participants together for five days of intellectual, professional, personal, and spiritual growth. RTI is offered by JTS in cooperation with the RA and is open to all Conservative rabbis.
Please check back for information on RTI 2027.
Five Days of Learning
A deeply stimulating and nurturing experience, RTI prepares participants to return to their communities rejuvenated in mind, heart, and spirit, and with new skills to serve as even more thoughtful and capable leaders.
Meeting at an offsite retreat center from Sunday to Thursday, RTI participants engage in text study and professional skill building with a faculty of world-renowned scholars and consultants, while also reflecting with peers on individual and shared experiences. The program offers:
- Torah lishmah
- Professional skills courses
- Facilitated groups for personal and spiritual reflection
- Meaningful davening and divrei Torah
- Yoga, meditation, art workshops, and private massage (optional)
- Supportive and fun hevreschaft
View a sample schedule for RTI
Expert Faculty
The teachers and consultants who guide participants come from JTS and from diverse institutions around the world. Previous faculty have included:
- The teachers and consultants who guide participants come from JTS and from diverse institutions around the world. Previous faculty have included:
- Mary Jo Barrett
- Dr. Tal Becker
- Rabbi Jordan Bendat-Appell
- Dr. Shira Billet
- Dr. Erica Brown
- Dr. Alan Cooper
- Rabbi Eliezer Diamond
- Dr. Arnold Eisen
- Rabbi Ed Feld
- Dr. Linda Stone Fish
- Dr. David Fishman
- Dr. Alyssa Gray
- Rabbi Judith Hauptman
- Rabbi Shai Held
- Rabbi David Hoffman
- Dr. David Kraemer
- Dr. Marjorie Lehman
- Rabbi Naomi Levy
- Rabbi Jack Moline
- Rev. Jake Morrill
- Rabbi Daniel Nevins
- Rabbi David Silber
- Dr. Kathy Simon
- Dr. Benjamin Sommer
- Rabbi Mychal Springer
- Dr. Devora Steinmetz
- Rabbi Ira Stone
- Rev. Doug Tanner
- Rabbi Gordon Tucker
- Rabbi Jan Uhrbach
- Dr. Burton Visotzky
- Rabbi Melissa Weintraub
- Dr. Sarah Wolf
What People Are Saying
“RTI is the best professional development I do all year. It nourishes my body, mind, and soul. It provides me with tools to serve my congregation and the Jewish people better. An amazing time of learning, living, and being.”
“As rabbis we teach and preach about the need to create sacred space for our congregants, yet overlook that need for ourselves. RTI fulfills that need, and I return each year from RTI spiritually and emotionally rejuvenated and invigorated.”
“RTI is an invaluable opportunity to personally connect with colleagues as they are, with all of our rabbinic masks taken off. We cut straight to the tachlis, the practicality, and strive to help one another in whatever stage we are at in our careers and in our mindset or emotional state.”
Contact Us
RTI is directed by:
Rabbi Ayelet Cohen, Pearl Resnick Dean of The Rabbinical School and Dean of the Division of Religious Leadership, JTS
Tani Schwartz-Herman, Program Director, Division of Lifelong Learning and Professional Studies, JTS
In consultation with Rabbi Ilana Garber, Senior Director of Rabbinic Leadership, RA
For more information and/or to apply for a scholarship, please contact us at rti@jtsa.edu.
