Messianic Jewish Rabbinical Council
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The Council’s 2026 Summer Meeting was held May 31st through June 2nd in Orlando. At this year’s meeting, Rabbi Nathan Joiner was elected Vice President and Rabbi Lonnie Bradshaw was elected Treasurer. The Council engaged in a deep halakhic study on the issues surrounding Messianic Kiddushin and continued our revision of our Shabbat standards. We again had the pleasure of…
The Council’s 2025 Summer Meeting was held on May 18th through 20th in Connecticut. At this year’s meeting, Rabbi Adam Landsman was elected President and Rabbi Nathan Joiner was elected Secretary. Thank you to Rabbi Joshua Brumbach for two excellent terms as our President! We had the pleasure of ordaining two newer members of our Council: Rabbi Jeff Lerman and…
In June 2018, we witnessed a momentous occasion as Vered Hillel and Isaac Roussel received rabbinical ordination. Vered is the first woman to receive s’mikhah from the MJRC. Below is an excerpt from our standards manual outlining our policy of ordaining women as Messianic Jewish Rabbis. (Link from the Standards Manual) 1.2.3 In concert with…
MJRC Rabbi Dr. Mark Kinzer has just released Searching Her Own Mystery, which promises to become a major resource in Messianic Jewish dialogue with the Roman Catholic Church and the Christian world in general. Rabbi Kinzer argues that the Church has yet to explore adequately the implications of the seminal Catholic document Nostra Aetate for Christian self-understanding. The publication announcement…