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3 unusual facts about Jewish Theological Seminary


Arthur Waskow

Waskow was ordained a rabbi in 1995 by a transdenominational beth din (rabbinical court) made up of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, with Lubavitch Hasidic lineage; Rabbi Max Ticktin, ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary (Conservative); Rabbi Laura Geller, ordained by the Hebrew Union College (Reform); and Dr. Judith Plaskow, a leading feminist theologian.

Bernhard Rosenberg

Jewish Theological Seminary presented him with his DD in May 2010.He also holds a Doctor of Divinity degree from The Jewish Theological Seminary of New York.

Shai Held

Held earned his A.B. from Harvard University in religion, and went on to earn his M.A. in Jewish philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary in addition to rabbinic ordination.


Abraham Geiger

“When the Jewish Theological Seminary was founded there in 1854, thanks in part to Geiger's efforts, he was not appointed to its faculty, though he had long been at the fore-front of attempts to establish a faculty of Jewish theology.”

Hershel Matt

He was a professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and Academy for Jewish Religion.

Isaac ben Moses of Vienna

Other manuscripts are at Oxford and in the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City.

Ismar Elbogen

Educated by his uncle, Jacob Levy, author of the "Neuhebräisches Wörterbuch", and then at the gymnasium and the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau, he received his doctor's degree from the Breslau University.

Ismar Schorsch

Dr. Ismar Schorsch became the sixth Chancellor of The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) and is the Rabbi Herman Abramovitz Professor of Jewish history.

Mordechai Rotenberg

Rotenberg has taught at University of Pennsylvania, University of California, Berkeley, the Jewish Theological Seminary, City University of New York and Yeshiva University.

Neil Danzig

Rabbi Neil Danzig (הרב נחמן דנציג) (born December 3, 1950); a native of Brooklyn, NY, currently residing in Teaneck, New Jersey; is a professor of Talmud and rabbinic literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary.

Samuel Hirsch Margulies

He was born in Berezhany, western Ukraine (then mainly Polish speaking town with mixed Polish, Ukrainian and Jewish population in the kingdom of Galicia of Austro-Hungarian Empire), and studied at the Breslau Jewish Theological Seminary and at the universities of Breslau and Leipzig, in Germany.

Susannah Heschel

In 1972 she asked the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York to consider her application to its rabbinical school, though she knew it did not ordain women at that time.


see also

Samuel Krauss

Samuel Krauss (Ukk, February 18, 1866 - Cambridge, June 4, 1948) was professor at the Jewish Teachers' Seminary, Budapest, 1894–1906, and at the Jewish Theological Seminary, Vienna, 1906-1938.