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apply to core semikha

Applications are open for four year ordination program.

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apply to beit midrash program

Applications are open for our one year mekhina program.

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college learning fellows

Meet the 2025-2026 College Learning Fellows!

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bat mitzvah leadership lab

This five part series helps young women along with their families explore the halakha and text study related to Bat Mitzvah.

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Rabbi Erin Leib Smokler's new series will focus on holiday reflections from the world of Chasidut.

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na'aleh:reaching new heights

We are excited to share Maharat's strategic plan for 2025-2028.

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Thank you for choosing to honor your friends and family by sponsoring learning at Maharat.

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Read insights on the weekly Parsha from Maharat scholars.

about us

Maharat was founded in 2009 as the first yeshiva to ordain women to serve as Orthodox clergy, after the ordination of Rabba Sara Hurwitz by Rabbi Avi Weiss and Rabbi Daniel Sperber. By providing a credentialed pathway for women to serve as clergy, we increase the community’s ability to attract the best and brightest into the ranks of its rabbinic leadership. In addition, by expanding the leadership to include women, we seek to enliven the community at large with a wider array of voices, thoughts and perspectives.

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