JTS

The Conservative movement once nearly expelled her. Now she’ll train its rabbis.

Rabbi Ayelet Cohen, who challenged movement policy on same-sex weddings, is new dean of the JTS rabbinical school.

The first female chancellor of JTS shares her plans for the seminary – and getting through the pandemic

Shuly Rubin Schwartz believes her long history inside the Conservative institution makes her the right person to guide the school through a crisis.

Shuly Rubin Schwartz tapped as first woman chancellor at Jewish Theological Seminary

Schwartz, also the first woman provost at JTS, has played a pivotal role as the Conservative seminary transitioned to online learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

United States

Jewish Theological Seminary Chancellor Arnold Eisen to step down

Ideas

We went to the border to support our friends. Our disagreements were for another time.

Ideas

When Jewish students in America raised alarms about the Holocaust

Ideas

What really happened at the original Trefa Banquet

Obituaries

Rabbi Neil Gillman, a premier theologian of Conservative Judaism, is dead at 84

United States

Conservative seminary: Ban stands on clergy performing interfaith marriages

Ideas

Judaism requires us to pursue the goals of the Paris climate accords

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