Europe’s first school of Jewish theology

In what is being called a landmark moment for Europe’s Jewry, the continent’s first university-level school of Jewish theology was set to open last week at the University of Potsdam, just outside Berlin, writes Raphael Ahren for The Times of Israel.

“The opening of the School of Jewish Theology marks a historical milestone in the training of liberal and conservative rabbis and is unique both in Germany and Europe,” the university’s President Oliver Günther said in a statement.

Jewish theology taking a prominent place at a European university “creates a milestone in the history of science, but also in the history of German and European Judaism", noted German President Joachim Gauck. “In Germany, of all places, where the Jewish intelligentsia – which had such a large and irreplaceable share in the intellectual prestige of German academia – was expelled and murdered, out of all places in Germany, Jewish theology is finally given its proper role.”
Full report on The Times of Israel site