Itongadol/AJN.- One of the aims of the Seminario is to make Tora Lishma and professional training a possibility to Jews all over Latin America. Two years ago, a branch of the Seminario was opened in Santiago de Chile, with the support of local Masorti congregations and the Chilean Vaad Harabanim, in order to work in teacher training and pre-rabbinical studies.
This past December the Seminario launched a Yeshiva in Santiago de Chile in order to train and strengthen Jewish knowledge, renewing the traditional Hevruta method of study, with a masorti approach to traditional texts. The Yeshiva project has developed a strategic partnership with the Instituto Hebreo, the main Jewish school of Chile with more than 1500 students.
The Yeshiva will work under the supervision of the Dean of the Seminario in Chile Rabbi Alejandro Bloch and the head of the Seminario Rabbi Ariel Stofenmacher.
Rabbis and leaders of Masorti congregations, the Instituto Hebreo and the Seminario gathered last December 19th for this historical event:
Comunidad Benei Israel: Chairman Tomas Münzer, Rabbi Alejandro Bloch, rabbinical student Nico Reck;
Circulo Israelita de Santiago: Chairman Jorge Ancelovici, Vicechairman Miguel Infeld, Board member Roman Yosif, and Rabbis Eduardo Waingortin, Ari Sigal and Gustavo Kelmeszes;
Comunidad Sefaradi: Rabbi Daniel Zang;
Comunidad Israelita de Valparaiso (Viña del Mar): Chairman Ariel Szewkis and Rabbi Efraim Rosenzweig;
Instituto Hebreo: General Director Dr. Sergio Herskovich;
Seminario Rabinico Latinoamericano: Rabbi Ariel Stofenmacher.