Educating Rabbis in a New Paradigm
I recently co-edited Keeping Faith in Rabbis: A Community Conversation on Rabbinical Education, an anthology of essays about 21st century rabbinical education and leadership. What emerges from the essays from a wide array of voices is the realization that the community that gave birth to today’s rabbinical schools no longer exists. However, even with the awareness of being in a new era of American Jewish community, rabbinical education is generally still rooted in incompatible paradigm principles of the past. Before suggesting how the education of rabbis can change in this new era of Jewish life, we need to clarify what a paradigm is, and to better appreciate just how profound the transition is from the old to the new paradigm. A paradigm is as a […]
