The Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, JCUA, invites your students to apply for our
Summer 2012 Rabbinical Student Fellowship program. Entering the seventh year of the
Fellowship, JCUA is excited to welcome new students into the fold of future Rabbinic
leaders striving to change the world for a better future.

JCUA’s Rabbinical Student Fellowship provides the opportunity for a rabbinic student
to learn and work hands-on in the fields of social-justice organizing and Jewish
approaches to poverty, racism, and anti-Semitism, while examining other aspects of
human rights that they will be able to incorporate into their rabbinates.

The Fellowship is for 8 weeks, from early June 2012 to mid-August 2012 (dates are
flexible based on the end of the Rabbinic School dates and the Or Tzedek sessions).
This fellow will be the spiritual mentor for JCUA’s Or Tzedek Teen Social Justice
Summer Programs. Or Tzedek is a residential 8-day program geared to Jewish teens
who want to strengthen their Jewish identity and clarify their commitment to social and
economic justice. As part of the program, teens work in Chicago’s diverse neighborhoods
in partnership with other local teens; explore Jewish approaches to social justice; develop
leadership skills; examine urban issues and their impacts on communities. During the
summer sessions, the fellow will have the opportunity to teach formally and informally,
and to shape a new generation of Jews’ commitment to social justice. (To find out
more about the Or Tzedek Program, click here.)

When the program is in session (3 consecutive 8-day sessions, running Sunday to
Sunday), the rabbinic fellow will live on campus, together with all program staff and
participants. All food is Kosher and the program Shabbat-observant.

During the weeks in which the summer program is not in session, the fellow will work
on developing educational curricula (workshops, text-studies, etc.) that engage teens in
a Jewish exploration of social justice issues. The fellow will also spend one day a week
in study with rabbinic and community leaders. These sessions include study of Jewish
sources relevant to social justice work, Jewish history, and workshops on incorporating
social justice into one’s rabbinate. Sessions are led by local rabbis, teachers and lay
leaders from a variety of denominations and with different perspectives. Every rabbinical
fellow is paired with a rabbinic mentor from the Chicago area.

For more information and eligibility, click here.

Application is available here.

For more information, or to apply, contact Irene Lehrer Sandalow.