Supporters

JTS is an uncommon place. Here Jewish scholarship and Jewish life are interwoven. Home to some of the world's most distinguished scholars in every field of Judaica, JTS is also blessed with a passionate and talented student body. Its resources are devoted to nurturing and training the professional and lay leaders we all rely upon.

JTS is our treasure. It is the Jewish university at the heart of the Conservative Movement, and each and every one of us benefits from its good work. Our goal is nothing short of ensuring a Jewish future for your community.

A gift to JTS is a contribution that will benefit our campus in New York City, our affiliated institutions all over the world, and your community, too.

  • A Yemenite musician can lead services in both the Ashkenazic and Sephardic traditions; he is a student at the H. L. Miller Cantorial School and College of Jewish Music.
  • A Navy ensign stationed in Florida says kaddish for his father; the chaplain at his side was trained at The Rabbinical School.
  • A graduate student from Russia examines a rare genizah fragment; he is a Project Judaica participant studying in The Library.
  • Students and faculty deliver food each week to homebound AIDS patients; they are Va'ad Gemilut Hasadim: Helping Out for Heaven's Sake volunteers.
  • A teenager in Montreal puts on her grandfather's tefillin; she is shown how by a Camp Ramah counselor from Chicago, who is a student at the Albert A. List College of Jewish Studies.
  • Rabbinical students at the Seminario Rabínico Latinoamericano in Buenos Aires, Argentina study Bible in both Hebrew and Spanish; their teachers were trained at JTS.
  • Students across the US and from as far away as China study Talmud interactively with JTS master scholars; via the Internet they participate in JTS's Distance Learning program.
  • University students study Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations; their teacher, a full professor, was the first to earn a PhD from The Graduate School.
  • Public-school students in Jerusalem learn how to light Shabbat candles; their school has a TALI curriculum sponsored by JTS's Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies.

The Jewish Theological Seminary is a charitable organization with an IRS 501 (c) (3) classification. Our federal tax identification number is 13-0887-640.