Once again, it’s rabbinic hiring season.
I’m not sure if you’ve heard, but there is a massive shortage of non-Orthodox rabbis.
This issue has been widely covered in the Jewish press. And I’ve got bad news: With a generation of rabbis nearing retirement and fewer students entering non-Orthodox rabbinic programs, the situation will likely worsen in the coming years, perhaps decades. This trend is troubling enough — but the response is more disturbing if we aim to solve the problem.
Leaders often fail because they never interrogate their theory of the problem, the hypothesis for why there is the problem in the first place.
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