The Mirrer Yeshiva, which has 1,200 students in everything from preschool to rabbinical training, is a rigorously Orthodox all-male institution that cleaves to its European traditions.

By the 1980s the number of legally authorized synagogues in the Soviet Union had dropped to 50 and rabbinical training had long been stopped.

The next day, Ms. Timoner said, "I was on the phone," finding out how to enter rabbinical training.

After that, he returned to the United States to complete his rabbinical training.

His rabbinical training was at the hands of Maharam Schick and Azriel Hildesheimer.

After initially working in the legal field, he underwent rabbinical training and became a member of the London Beth Din.

The para-rabbi program is not a substitute for rabbinical training but would enhance the ability of rural Jews to carry on without rabbis.

At that time, he travelled to Hebrew Union College (HUC), in Cincinnati, Ohio, to begin his rabbinical training.

Administrators are not certain why there has been an explosion of interest in rabbinical training.

Lazarus, who had received rabbinical training in Berlin, served as a rabbi, without pay, and services were initially held in an upstairs room in his store.