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Founded in 2013 and based in Berlin, Germany, the Zacharias Frankel College is the newest addition of the Masorti/Conservative Movement rabbinical seminaries, including the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York, the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary in Jerusalem, the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles, and the Seminario Rabinico Latinoamericano Marshall T. Meyer in Buenos Aires.

The Zacharias Frankel College operates under the religious supervision of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles. It was founded in partnership with the Leo Baeck Foundation and is affiliated with the School of Jewish Theology of the University of Potsdam. The College is named after Rabbi Zacharias Frankel (1801-1875) who was the founding director of the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau which existed from 1854 until 1938.

The program consists of five years of study. Students graduate with B.A. and M.A. degrees in Jewish Theology from the University of Potsdam and fulfill required courses leading to ordination in the Zacharias Frankel College. In addition, students complete a year of study at the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem and an internship at a synagogue or educational institution.

With ordination, graduates of the Zacharias Frankel College become members of the Rabbinical Assembly, the international organization of Masorti/Conservative rabbis.

Rabbi Professor Bradley S. Artson and Rabbi Cheryl Peretz, Dean and Vice Dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, serve as Dean and Vice Dean of the Zacharias Frankel College. Rabbi Professor Walter Homolka serves as Executive Director. Rabbi Gesa S. Ederberg, rabbi of the Masorti Oranienburger Strasse Synagogue in Berlin, is Director of Congregational Proficiency. Dr. Sandra Anusiewicz-Baer is Coordinator of the Zacharias Frankel College.

Rabbi Nitzan Stein Kokin, the first Zacharias Frankel College graduate, was ordained as the first German Masorti rabbi on 18 June 2017 / 24 Sivan 5777 at the Jewish Community Center of Berlin on Fasanenstrasse, the historic site of one of Berlin’s most prestigious synagogues destroyed by the Nazis on Kristallnacht. Category:Jews and Judaism in Germany Category:University of Potsdam Category:Rabbinical Seminaries Category:Conservative Judaism in Europe Category:Educational institutions established in 2013