The 2025 Center for Pastoral Education Benefit Luncheon

Tuesday, June 10, 2025
11:30 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
In Person at JTS
3080 Broadway (at 122nd Street)
New York City  

You’re invited to the 2025 Center for Pastoral Education Benefit Luncheon Compassion in Action, featuring students in our newest program, the MA in Spiritual Care and Counseling. This year, we will be honoring Rabbi Dr. Alvin Kass, Chief Chaplain for the New York City Police Department, with the Pastoral Care Leadership Award. NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch will be attending and sharing a few words of tribute for Rabbi Kass.

About the Center for Pastoral Education

Every day, spiritual leaders are called upon to provide comfort, guidance, and support to people in crisis. The Center for Pastoral Education at JTS has set a new standard for preparing them to receive these calls, through a transformative educational process that is grounded in Jewish tradition, and open and relevant to seminarians, clergy, and professionals from all faith traditions and Jewish denominations. The Center provides clinical pastoral education (CPE) with intensive training in end-of-life care, elder care, prison re-entry and in congregational settings and is supported by expert certified educators. The Center is one of only a few fully accredited seminary-based programs in North America.