Second-career rabbis

Israel's largest newspaper, Haaretz, has published a report on the growing trend toward second-career rabbis. They cite the statistic that 15% of the incoming class in the Reform movement is 'second-career'.

I would bet the percent in the Reconstructionist movement is more like 40% or 50%. In other words, I wasn't the only one to come up with this idea! The above picture illustrates how old we all are going to be before we actually graduate ...

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