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.

By Jackie Hajdenberg March 9, 2022 4:06 pm

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.

June 5, 2020 11:38 am

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.

June 1, 2020 1:00 pm

Jewish Theological Seminary Chancellor Arnold Eisen to step down

By Marcy Oster September 19, 2019 2:34 pm

Ideas

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

By David Hoffman July 11, 2018 5:11 pm

Ideas

When Jewish students in America raised alarms about the Holocaust

By David Golinkin and Noam Zion May 7, 2018 5:18 pm

Ideas

What really happened at the original Trefa Banquet

By Jonathan D. Sarna January 16, 2018 12:37 pm

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

November 24, 2017 2:55 pm

Conservative seminary: Ban stands on clergy performing interfaith marriages

June 22, 2017 7:39 am

Ideas

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

By David Kraemer June 13, 2017 2:13 pm

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