Membership Policy
In year one, we invite New York rabbis, cantors, Maharatot & clergy students who affirm our shared principles AND are members/chaverim in good standing of T’ruah and/or JFREJ Community or JFREJ Action to join Tirdof . We will revisit and consider changes to this policy at the end of year one.
We welcome Tirdof members who are ordained as rabbis or cantors by Aleph, AJR, Hebrew College, HUC, JTS, Mechon Hadar, RIETS, RRC, Yashrut, YCT, Yeshivat Maharat, or Ziegler, or who received semicha from a traditional yeshiva and/or are members of the ACC, Cantors' Assembly, CCAR, IRF, Ohala, RA, RCA, RRA, or the New York Board of Rabbis. Those with other ordination or semicha may be admitted at the discretion of T'ruah. We also welcome rabbinical and cantorial students who are currently enrolled in one of the rabbinical or cantorial programs listed above for select programming, as outlined below.
Clergy students who are either alumni of a T’ruah student fellowship and/or JFREJ Community or JFREJ Action members in good standing may join Tirdof if they live in New York City and study for rabbinic or cantorial semicha or investiture as a cantor at one of the schools listed above, with the understanding that they will be members of Tirdof for the purposes of skills development and community building. They will be invited to participate in some but not all Tirdof programming and actions, as determined by Tirdof’s leadership in consultation with both T’ruah and JFREJ Community.
Tirdof members are expected to live by high ethical standards. Members who are in the middle of an adjudicatory process within their rabbinic/cantorial associations are asked to refrain from engagement in our programs or organizing work until the process has been resolved. Those who are suspended from their rabbinic/cantorial associations for ethics violations will also be suspended from Tirdof for the same period, and those who are permanently expelled for ethics violations will no longer be able to be Tirdof members.