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Posted inTech

How the next generation of rabbis is preparing for the age of AI

Louis Keene by Louis Keene December 24, 2025December 24, 2025

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Denise Blumenfeld’s AI learning tool doesn’t have all the […]

Hebrew College, which sold its Newton Centre, Massachusetts campus in 2018, is now the second major rabbinical school in the United States to do away with rules barring students from dating or marrying non-Jews. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Hebrew College)
Posted inU.S.

In a shift, Boston’s Hebrew College will now ordain rabbis whose partners are not Jewish

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA February 1, 2023February 1, 2023
The S.H. and Helen R. Scheuer Chapel on the Cincinnati campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (Photo/JTA-Ady Manory)
Posted inUncategorized, Opinion

Want more Reform rabbis? Stop turning away Jews in interfaith relationships

Edmund Case by Edmund Case and Forward March 30, 2022March 30, 2022
American Jewish University in Bel Air, California. (Photo/Wikimedia-Cbl62 CC BY-SA 3.0)
Posted inCalifornia

One of 2 Conservative rabbinical schools in the US is slashing tuition — by nearly 80%

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA March 24, 2022
The campus of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio, Jan. 21, 2019. HUC's board of directors is considering a new proposal to stop admitting rabbinical students to its Cincinnati campus. (Photo/JTA-Warren LeMay via Creative Commons)
Posted inNews

Hebrew Union College could shutter Cincinnati seminary where it has trained Reform rabbis for 147 years

by Andrew Lapin and JTA March 21, 2022March 21, 2022
A choir performs during the 2018 graduation for the Academy for Jewish Religion California. (Photo/Courtesy Academy for Jewish Religion California)
Posted inCalifornia

This L.A. rabbinical school is moving into a Catholic university

Yonat Shimron by Yonat Shimron and RNS September 3, 2021September 8, 2021
Lena Sclove is a prospective rabbinical student whose husband is Hindu. (Photo/Mahip Rathore)
Posted inReligion

As more American Jews intermarry, seminaries face calls to ordain intermarried rabbis

Alix Wall by Alix Wall and Forward February 9, 2021February 11, 2021

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