Talk:Jewish Theological Seminary of America

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Forgive me for being a relative outsider editing this page on the JTS... but I've recently learned about the Eternal Light broadcasts and think they certainly deserve a home on Wikipedia. Since I don't have enough resources to devote a whole entry to its description, I'm hoping you'll be okay with its inclusion here. However, if anyone has more information about it, perhaps it could go in its own page and leave just a link here in this paragraph's place. james waters

[edit] Foundations

I think that the history as presented here is unclear and misleading. Firstly - to categorize Morais as a moderate reformer is a little strong being that he was one of the main opponents of the Reform movement in America. Secondly, Morais had created a Jewish Seminary in Philadelphia well before the founding of JTS. Also - I am not so sure that the school was founded on the principles of the "Positive-Historical" approach as much as it was meant to be a rabbinical school to counteract the Reform movement. It wasn't until Shechter arrived that the school's approach began to take form. This initial ambiguity of mission comes out in the entry on the Seminary and Conservative Judaism in the Encyclopdeia Judaica. As such i think that this section requires some work. Any comments? Guedalia D'Montenegro 03:27, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Notable Faculty" section

This section is growing and becoming a quasi-useful long list of folks' names.

I would suggest that these apparently notable people receive an inline reference, ideally citing an external source that passes WP:RS, and again ideally with a quotation (see {{Cite web}} and {{Cite book}} for examples of suitable formatting). We can thus make a judgment without turning the page about whether we want to follow the link. By doing this that article gets better.

An interested ad hoc group of editors did this to the Alumni section of Epsom College (unrelated to JTS in any way) and achieved a much enhanced article this way.

As it stands currently the list is just getting bigger. Is it getting better?

Fiddle Faddle (talk) 21:19, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

As a side note, the Notable Alumni section is better than the NF one, but could still do with some inline citation attention. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 21:21, 26 November 2007 (UTC)