The German government will double its support for the country’s first postwar Reform rabbinical school. The German Parliament on May 18 approved an annual contribution of $191,000 in federal funds to support the Abraham Geiger College, which will ordain its first three rabbinical graduates next September, the first rabbis of any denomination ordained in postwar Germany.
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