Educating the Practical Rabbi

Israel’s rabbinic landscape can be treacherous territory, but two Modi’in rabbis aim to help community rabbis navigate the terrain with Barkai, a center for practical rabbinics.

The Modi’in organization was officially launched on Monday as 20 carefully chosen students, all ordained rabbis from around the country, began a two-year weekly course of study that aims to create a “toolbox” of rabbinic skills that will help make the modern Israeli rabbi more relevant, said Rabbi Shlomo Sobol, one of Barkai’s two founders.

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