List of rabbinical schools

Following is a listing of rabbinical schools, organized by denomination. The emphasis of the training will differ by denomination:
Orthodox Semikha centers on the study of Talmud-based halacha (Jewish law), while in other programs, the emphasis may shift to "the other functions of a modern rabbi such as preaching, counselling, and pastoral work.”

Rabbi Steven Blane (N.D.)
"Ordination and Semicha"
jsli.net Conservative Yeshivot occupy a position midway between Orthodox and Reform and other denominational or non-denominational programs, in that their training places (significantly) more emphasis on Halakha and Talmud than other non-Orthodox programs.

Reform

In Reform Judaism, rabbinic programs span five years and incorporate a master's degree. Studies are mandated in pastoral care, the historical development of Judaism, academic biblical criticism, in addition to the study of traditional rabbinic texts. Rabbinical students also are required to gain practical rabbinic experience by working at a congregation as a rabbinic intern during each year of study from year one onwards. All Reform seminaries ordain women and LGBTQ people as rabbis and cantors.

*The seminary of Reform Judaism in the United States is Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. It has campuses in Cincinnati, New York City, and Los Angeles.
*In Israel, the Jerusalem campus of Hebrew Union College is the only seminary for training Reform Jewish clergy.
*In the United Kingdom, the Reform and Liberal movements maintain Leo Baeck College in London for the training and ordination of rabbis.
*In Germany the Abraham Geiger College trains and ordains candidates for the Progressive rabbinate.
*In Latin America, the Reform Movement maintains the Instituto Iberoamericano de Formación Rabinica Reformista (Iberoamerican Institute of Reform Rabbinical Formation), based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The IIFRR serves the Latin American Reform communities and has had online teaching as part of its curriculum, counting as teachers and supporting lecturers rabbis from the Reform communities throughout Latin America, North America, Israel and Europe.

Conservative

Conservative institutions, which unlike Orthodox institutions are open to ordaining women and LGBT people as rabbis and cantors, provide an "integrated program" of academic learning and professional development, spanning five or six years.

In addition to knowledge and mastery of the study of Talmud and halakhah, Conservative ''semikhah'' also requires that its rabbinical students receive intensive training in Tanakh, classical biblical commentaries, biblical criticism, Midrash, Kabbalah and Hasidut, the historical development of Judaism from antiquity to modernity, Jewish ethics, the halakhic methodology of Conservative responsa, and classical and modern works of Jewish theology and philosophy.
Here, students are required to study for one year - usually the program's third - in Israel.

Conservative programs include synagogue administration, pastoral care, chaplaincy, non-profit management, and navigating the modern world in a Jewish context, and incorporate professional placement.

Ordination is granted at:
*The Rabbinical School of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York
*Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles
*Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem (Jerusalem's Conservative Yeshiva does not grant ordination)
* Budapest University of Jewish Studies in Budapest, Hungary
* Zacharias Frankel College in Potsdam
*Seminario Rabinico Latinoamericano in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Orthodox

Orthodox yeshivas are institutions of Torah study generally, "Torah lishma", and are not focused on the training of rabbis ''per se''. Their curricula emphasize Talmud along with the study of ''halacha'' (Jewish law); if less emphasized, ''Tanakh

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