Hadar’s new plan has it minting rabbis, opening synagogues. Is it a denomination now?
Over time, Hadar’s brand of “traditional egalitarian” study and observance gained adherents and its programs reached a broader class of Jewish laypeople, professionals and educators.
Yael Jaffe, a member of Hadar's first cohort of rabbinic ordinees, learns in the New York beit midrash, or study hall, of the Jewish learning and programming center. (photo credit: Courtesy Hadar)ByJACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA