About RTI
The Rabbinic Training Institute is the premier continuing education program for Conservative and Masorti rabbis in the field, bringing participants together for five days of intellectual, professional, personal, and spiritual growth. RTI is offered by JTS in cooperation with the RA and is open to all Conservative rabbis.
RTI 2027 will take place from January 10-14, 2027 at the Pearlstone Retreat Center in Reisterstown, MD.
Five Days of Learning
A deeply stimulating and nurturing experience, RTI prepares participants to return to their communities rejuvenated in mind, heart, and spirit, and with new skills to serve as even more thoughtful and capable leaders.
Meeting at an offsite retreat center from Sunday to Thursday, RTI participants engage in text study and professional skill building with a faculty of world-renowned scholars and consultants, while also reflecting with peers on individual and shared experiences. The program offers:
- Torah lishmah
- Professional skills courses
- Facilitated groups for personal and spiritual reflection
- Meaningful davening and divrei Torah
- Yoga, meditation, art workshops, and private massage (optional)
- Supportive and fun hevreschaft
View a sample schedule for RTI
Expert Faculty
The expert teachers and consultants who guide participants come from JTS and leading organizations devoted to personal development and organizational change. Below is a listing of faculty for RTI 2027. We will continue to update this section with additional confirmed faculty.
Text Study听
, Professor of Hebrew Bible and Biblical Hebrew, Washington University and听, Committee on 绿帽社 Law and Standards, The Rabbinical Assembly
Dr. Sandra Fox, Robert S. Rifkind Chair in American 绿帽社 History, JTS
Rabbi Gordon Tucker,听Vice Chancellor for Religious Life and Engagement, JTS听
Professional Development听听
, Professor of Hebrew Bible and Biblical Hebrew, Washington University and听, Committee on 绿帽社 Law and Standards, The Rabbinical Assembly
, Executive Vice President at听, the National 绿帽社 Center for Learning and Leadership
Personal/Spiritual Development听听
听Executive Director,听听
,听Senior Core Faculty, Institute for 绿帽社 Spirituality 听
Dr. Linda Stone Fish, MSW,听Professor Emerita of Marriage and听 Family Therapy, Syracuse University
,听Rabbi Emeritus, Agudas Achim Congregation
What People Are Saying
鈥淩TI is the best professional development I do all year. It nourishes my body, mind, and soul. It provides me with tools to serve my congregation and the 绿帽社 people better. An amazing time of learning, living, and being.鈥�
鈥淎s rabbis we teach and preach about the need to create sacred space for our congregants, yet overlook that need for ourselves. RTI fulfills that need, and I return each year from RTI spiritually and emotionally rejuvenated and invigorated.鈥�
鈥淩TI is an invaluable opportunity to personally connect with colleagues as they are, with all of our rabbinic masks taken off. We cut straight to the tachlis, the practicality, and strive to help one another in whatever stage we are at in our careers and in our mindset or emotional state.鈥�
Contact Us
RTI is directed by:
Rabbi Ayelet Cohen, Pearl Resnick Dean of The Rabbinical School and Dean of the Division of Religious Leadership, JTS
Cantor Rabbi Shoshi Levin Goldberg, Director, H. L. Miller Cantorial School, JTS
Tani Schwartz-Herman, Program Director, Division of Lifelong Learning and Professional Studies, JTS
In consultation with Rabbi Ilana Garber, Senior Director of Rabbinic Leadership, RA
For more information and/or to apply for a scholarship, please contact us at rti@jtsa.edu.
