10bet(JTS)在两位杰出的拉比的努力下于1886年成立, Dr. Sabato Morais and Dr. H. Pereira Mendes, 还有一群来自费城和纽约西班牙裔教会的杰出领袖. 它的使命是保存历史上犹太教的知识和实践. In 1887, JTS在西班牙-葡萄牙犹太教堂的法衣室里举办了第一届10名学生的课程, 纽约市最古老的教会.
Since then, JTS极大地扩展了它的使命, 创建了一个美丽的校园，并发展成为今天享有盛誉的犹太学习中心. 这是一所犹太大学，拥有世界一流的师资队伍和多元化的学生群体, JTS资助本科生, graduate, 并通过其五所学院获得专业学位，为美国的犹太社区提供丰富的课程, Israel, and around the world.
JTS schools and facilities include the Gershon Kekst研究生院; The Rabbinical School; H. L. 米勒唱诗班学校和犹太音乐学院; William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education; Albert A. List College of Jewish Studies; the Rebecca and Israel Ivry Prozdor High School, a model supplementary high school; a summer school; several research institutes; lay leadership and professional institutes; community education programs; student residence halls; and the incomparable collections of JTS’s world-renowned Library.
In addition, JTS与犹太博物馆的联系以及与著名学术邻居的联盟支持并增强了其学习社区的学术氛围.
An engine for outreach, JTS is committed to introducing religious alternatives in Israel and eastern Europe through its collaboration with the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies; training a new Jewish intelligentsia in Ukraine through Project Judaica, its Jewish studies program in Kyiv; and raising a generation of literate and observant Jews in North America through its intensive work with the Ramah camps and Schechter schools. JTS还致力于通过一系列创新项目为成年人提供犹太知识和经验, 帮助在公共问题上创造一个负责任和知情的保守犹太人的声音, 从以色列的宗教多元主义到生命伦理学.
我们的多元化社区致力于让犹太教在新一代中活跃起来, 将传统犹太价值观的丰富性和活力带入21世纪.
