A.  DAVENING – Shacharit (7:45 AM) and Mincha (2:00 PM)

B.  MORNING SEDER and SHIUR (9:00 AM – 1:00 PM)

- Gemara (1st year) or Halakha (2nd-4th year)

- Halakha will be on a 3 year cycle: Yoreh Deah; Niddah and Aveilut; and Shabbat and Eiruvin

- Students will be assigned their shiur

C. AFTERNOON SEDER and SHIUR (2:15 PM – 6:00 PM)

-    4 semesters of classes with seder on Jewish Thought (classes offered on every other year) see below, F3d.

-    1 year, Orah Hayim Laws and their Historical Development (1st or 2nd year)

-    1 year, Lifecycle Events – Laws and Meaning (3rd or 4th year)

D. FRIDAY SEDER (9:00 AM – 12:00 PM / 1:00 PM)

     -   1 year, Gemara (year 1)

     -   1 year, Shabbat Topics – Student Presentations

     -   2 years, Topics in Jewish Ethics

E.  TUESDAY NIGHT SEDER (6:45 PM – 9:00 PM)

     -   To be used for Torah learning on whatever topic/text student chooses

F. CLASSES (beyond SEDER-SHIUR requirements)

1.      Gemara

     -   1 semester: Academic Talmud

2.      Bible

     -   1 year: Book of Genesis  (1st or 2nd year)

3.      Jewish Thought

a.      1 year: Challenges of Modern Orthodoxy (1st year)

b.      1 year: Philosophy of Prayer  (1st or 2nd year)

c.       1 semester: Intellectual History of Jewish Movements

d.      4 additional semesters, as part of Afternoon Seder-Shiur requirements, to be chosen from among:

   -    Fundamentals of Jewish Thought

   -    Individual Thinker or Work

   -    Themes in Jewish Thought

G. PASTORAL COUNSELING

        4 years of course work:

    -   1st year:  Fundamentals of Pastoral Counseling

    -   2nd year:  Family and Marriage Counseling seminars

    -   3rd year: Lifecycles

    -   4th year: Master Classes (monthly)

        Field Work

    -   2nd year: Intensive Chaplaincy (2 weeks)

    -   3rd or 4th year: Pastoral field work (2 -20 hour internships)

H. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

      2nd year:  Communications

       3rd year:

     -  Officiating at Lifecycles

     -  Homiletics

       4th year

     -  Rabbi and the Community

     -  Pedagogy

     -  Professional Skills

I.  LEADERSHIP TRAINING

       2nd year:  Social Action and Community Organizing classes and field work

       3rd and 4th year:  Eitzah Leadership training seminars

J. INTERNSHIPS

       3rd and 4th year: Internships with a mentoring rabbi (monthly or more often)

K. SELF-STUDY REQUIREMENTS

       - Torah with Rashi and selected Ramban

       - Jewish Holidays – Laws and Text

       - Jewish Thought –either : (a) Fundamental Topics or  (b) Medieval Thinkers or (c) Modern Thinkers

To view a sample daily schedule, click here. 

To view Academic Calendar 2007-2008, click here.