From Teacher to Scholar to Pastor: The Evolving Postwar Modern Orthodox Rabbinate

Currently, it would appear that the era of the pastor-rabbi is nowhere near finished. Since the 1980s, student enrollment at RIeTS has steadily increased.112 In 2010, RIeTS ordained its largest cohort of rabbinical students.113 In turn, YCT has furnished scores of rabbis to Orthodox congrega- tions since its founding in 1999. [...]YCT's existence-owed neither to an essential rabbinical revolution nor to a stark break with the American Orthodox rabbinate-serves as a reminder to its antagonists that opponents and rivals have helped to shape the image of the American Orthodox rabbi.