MOSCOW (JTA) — A newly-established rabbinical seminary in Moscow for Reform Jews received its first class, made up of seven students.
The seven — four women and three men — began attending the Moscow Rabbinic Leadership Institute, also known as Machon, earlier this month, the World Union for Progressive Judaism said in a statement Thursday.
Operating at Moscow’s Russian State University for the Humanities — which helped set up Machon in partnership with the union and the Abraham Geiger College — the institute is designed to address the current lack in Reform rabbis in the former Soviet Union, the union’s president, Daniel …read more
Source: JTA
