15/06/2021
The Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies held its annual graduation ceremony on June 4, 2021 in Jerusalem. Read one graduate’s inspiring speech about her "priceless" experience at Schechter.
12/04/2021
Leaders of the Schechter Institutes and members of an interreligious dialogue course met with the Latin Patriarch His Beatitude Pierbattista...
24/02/2021
Rabbi Oded Peles is ordained in a special ceremony in Jerusalem on Feb. 23.
21/10/2020
The Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies and The Schechter Rabbinical Seminary are experiencing significant increases in new student registration.
14/04/2020
Dear Friends, I hope that you and your families are safe and well at this difficult time. If you or any...
07/04/2020
Pesach and the Haggadah have inspired countless artistic interpretations. Shira Friedman, curator of the Neve Schechter gallery in Tel Aviv offers two...
Rabbi Irina Gritsevskaya, director of Midreshet Yerushalayim in Ukraine and the Midreshet Schechter batei midrash, shares how communities scattered across geographic distance can...
As we count the Omer between Pesach and Shavuot (April 19th – May 31st), we will study by Zoom once...
Beginning in 2003, the Rabbinical Assembly and the Schechter Institute co-published Megillat Hashoah — The Shoah Scroll — in five...
New Online Lecture Series with Rabbi Dr. Ron Kronish and guest lecturers 4 Zoom meetings on Wednesdays at 12:30-14:00 (Israel local...
18/03/2020
Question from Dr. Yizhar Hess, Director General of the Masorti Movement: In light of the spread of the corona virus, is...
07/03/2020
Dear Friends, In light of recent Israeli government decisions closing schools, universities, museums, restaurants and a host of other public...
Spending time inside lately? Check out these six trivia questions drawn from articles on Schechter’s website. The first two...
It was great having close to 100 friends of Schechter join us on zoom for Rabbi Prof. David Golinkin’s talk...
Thanks to everyone for participating in Schechter’s online trivia contest! See the questions and answers below. Each one is drawn...
18/01/2020
Women and women’s voices were front and center at a moving, musical evening at Neve Schechter on January 2, 2020. Neve...
On January 2, 2020, Neve Schechter and the Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts awarded the first ever prize for contemporary Israeli art to...
The Schechter Institutes wishes hearty congratulations to it alumni and faculty on the awarding of honorary degrees from the Jewish...
17/01/2020
The Schechter Institutes, Midreshet Schechter and Women’s League of Masorti Judaism, with the assistance of the Masorti movement, are proud...
18/12/2019
In a festive ceremony filled with music, Torah and song, the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary ordained its rabbi, marking 30 years of ordaining...
The start of the 2019-2020 school year brought with it an exciting new collaboration for the TALI Education Fund. TALI is...
While you may be familiar with Schechter’s engaging learning for M.A. and rabbinical students you might not know that courses...
The Kiev Masorti community had a powerful multi-faith Chanukah candle lighting on December 23rd. Rabbi Reuven Stamov, Schechter alum and resident...
18/10/2019
Gila Katz, beloved teacher and long-time director of Midreshet Yerushalayim, Schechter’s flagship program in Ukraine, is retiring after devoting close to thirty...
West St., the newest exhibit at Neve Schechter in Tel Aviv features the work of Tel-Aviv born Brooklyn artist Avital Burg. Gathering wildflowers...
18/09/2019
Growing up in St Petersburg, making aliya to Israel and living and studying in the United States have given Rabbi...
Turning sixteen in Israel isn’t just a number. At sixteen, Israeli teens get their national identity cards. Learn how TALI is helping...
After last year’s wildly successful Ashira Jewish music program with fifty participants, this year several new initiatives are taking place incorporating Jewish...
This week the Gallery at Neve Schechter opens Reflections, a new exhibit celebrating the Jewish New Year. This group exhibit of contemporary...
18/08/2019
Growing up in a home with a father in academia and a Judaica-artist mother, perhaps it was inevitable that Dr. Tamar...
18/07/2019
Some 20 students from different European study programs and from a wide range of backgrounds, including Muslims, Jews and Christians,...
Some 40 Jewish educators from Kiev, Odessa, Chernowitz, Kharkov, Berdichev, Lvov and Uzhgorod attended a 5-day Learning Marathon for Ukrainian...
Only some 30 years ago, the phrase was a mere oxymoron. Formal Jewish education in the USSR had been crushed in the mid-1920s.
18/06/2019
From Misgav north of Haifa and south to Beer Sheva 73 graduatesof Schechter’s MA program proudly walked the stage at...
On May 23rd Rabbi Prof. David Golinkin, President of The Schechter Institutes, received an honorary doctorate at The Jewish Theological Seminary’s...
18/04/2019
Can trash be treasure? At Neve Schechter in Tel Aviv, two performance artists, one Jewish and one Muslim, explore rituals that reinfuse...
Ashira: Music as a Jewish Experience, is the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary’s newest innovative learning opportunity. Ashira brings together prayer leaders and musicians to...
18/03/2019
As of March 2019, some 14,000 people in Israel are engaged in prostitution. 95 percent of them are women, including...
On March 27th, 2019, The Second Annual Conference on the State of Israel and the Jews of North America was...
Dr. Levana Libi Milon is the principal of the Ramot Alon school in Jerusalem. She recently participated in the TALI Education...
18/02/2019
The 19th annual Regional Masorti Women’s Study Days were held in February across Israel. The overall theme was “Women’s Voices Changing the...
18/01/2019
This year on Tu B’Shvat, Neve Schechter will host a very special exhibition. It will display photographs taken in the...
18/12/2018
Support Schechter’s Spectrum of Pluralistic Jewish Educational Programs With a Tax-Free Qualified Charitable Distribution As 2018 comes to a close, you...
On December 4th, 2018, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Israel demanding that authorities act to curb sharp increase in...
During the Hanukkah week, 15 Israeli educators explored NYC on a TALI Halleli study trip. TALI Halleli is a professional development...
3 Online Sunday Morning Lectures in English All lectures begin at 9:30 am PST; 10:30 am MST; 11:30 am CST;...
19/11/2018
On Monday, October 28, 2018 the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary hosted a group of Catholic priests from Israel, the US, Philippines,...
Schechter Institute and the Protestant Theological University (PThU) Receive EURO 50,000 through a Prestigious EU Erasmus + Grant for Academic...
18/11/2018
Genger Prize for Excellence in TALI Education was awarded for 10th time on November 15th, 2018. Genger family members, Schechter Institutes representatives, and...
An Israeli-born Feminist; A Russian-born Lawyer; a Canadian-born Coexistence Activist; and an Argentinian-born Educator. Following the completion of their three-year...
19/10/2018
As we mourn the victims of a massacre in The Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Rabbi Ilana Foss shares a unique...
19/08/2018
During the past Shabbat at camp, we held a very special Torah reading. Four students who studied Torah cantillation during...
19/07/2018
On Friday, June 30th, 350 Masorti women from around Israel gathered at Schechter for the 19th annual National Masorti Women’s Day of...
sraeli society is so religiously polarized that most people are forced to identify as religious or secular with little exposure...
Rabbi Dubi Hayoun, director of Midreshet Yerushalayim and a Schechter Rabbinical Seminary (SRS) graduate, was detained by Israeli police in Haifa...
19/06/2018
On May 29, 2018, 65 students walked the stage and received their M.A. degrees from the Schechter Institute of Jewish...
19/05/2018
Wow, what a day! So many ideas, so much engagement, so many people. The conference The State of Israel and...
Congratulations to Scott Shay, longtime friend and supporter of TALI and Schechter, on the forthcoming publication of his new book, In...
The Valley of the Dry Bones or The Revival of Jewish Life in Ukraine By Rabbi Prof. David Golinkin, President,...
19/03/2018
TALI textbooks offer substantive Jewish content and engaging illustrations that embrace the true diversity of Israeli society – men and...
19/02/2018
The newest study track in Judaism and the Arts at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies is off to a...
19/01/2018
The Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies and the Open University will host Jewish Studies graduate students from the University of Amsterdam in...
19/12/2017
As you celebrate Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, we hope that you will help us bring the light of Jewish...
In a time of increased strife and violence throughout the world we must seek out source of peace and hope. TALI’s...
Support Lena and Rabbi Reuven Stamov’s essential work to build Jewish identity in Ukraine. Donate today. The holiday of Hanukkah falls on the...
19/08/2017
This year, Camp “Ramah Yachad” Ukraine is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its establishment. The camp, founded and funded by...
19/07/2017
Last week I traveled to Uzhgorod, Ukraine to participate in an annual seminar of educators who work for Midreshet Yerushalayim...
19/06/2017
The TALI Education Fund (TALI = Hebrew acronym for Enriched Jewish Studies) is marking the 50th anniversary of the unification of...
19/05/2017
Close to 250 pupils from seven TALI schools took part in the first installment of the 7th annual music festival “Shirat...
The Schechter Institutes congratulates our friend and colleague Professor Alice Shalvi on being honored by Nefesh B’Nefesh as a Bonei...
This survey was the subject of a Jerusalem Post editorial. Read it here. 62% of Israelis believe that everyone should be...
19/12/2016
A group of 20 high-profile lawyers and judges from Canada visited Israel for a 5-day Law & Justice seminar at...
19/11/2016
A letter from Rabbi Mitch Cohen Camp Ramah US National Director, who led a Reshet Ramah adult mission to Camp...
19/10/2016
Donate to Schechter this New Year. Your support will make Schechter’s Judaism of COLOR a reality this year for over...
19/09/2016
27th Schechter Rabbinical Seminary Ordination: Large Class of More Women than Men Five newly ordained rabbis have joined the ranks...
19/08/2016
What do 135 Jewish children from all over Ukraine, 25 counselors and staff from Ukraine and Israel, 13 junior counselors...
19/07/2016
Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies Graduation Ceremony July 5, 2016/29 Sivan 5776 About 6 years ago, my son Nitzan came...
19/06/2016
Aiming to examine the sacred and the sublime as expressed in art, Kestenbaum Ben-Dov focuses on questions of faith and...
19/01/2007
Following my visit last summer to Ramah Yachad in Ukraine to celebrate the 15th anniversary of their Ramah programming, Amy...
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