High Tech for a Higher Authority: The Placement of Graduating Rabbis from Hebrew Union College--Jewish Institute of Religion

摘要

We describe the new placement process used to match the graduating rabbis from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) with congregations. The students involved in this new placement process are scheduled to be ordained as rabbis from HUC-JIR in May, about one month after the placement process is completed, and most students begin their pulpit assignments in July. Embedded in the new placement process are the double-blind match procedure and the double-blind match procedure for couples. These procedures, which we adapted from the procedure used to assign medical school graduates to intern-ships, have been used successfully for placing the graduating rabbinical students at HUC-JIR since 1997.