Want More Reform Rabbis? Allow Interfaith Relationships

The board of Hebrew Union College will soon vote on a proposal to stop enrolling rabbinic students at its Cincinnati campus, one of the Reform movement's three North American rabbinical college locations. As revealed in publicly available papers and the proposal itself, enrollment across HUC's three campuses is down 37% over the past 15 years. The proposal, which will come to a vote April 10, concludes that "the total pool of Jews who might consider applying to rabbinical school is only going to decrease in the foreseeable future."