104:. The organisation was re-focused and given its present name in 1999, with an emphasis on providing a broader range of adult educational courses and training to the wider Jewish community. The rabbinical training programme was suspended, and much of the historical holdings of the library were sold off. LSJS has had growing success in its new role, and started offered rabbinical training again in 2012, in partnership with the programme set up by the London Sephardi community.
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Without the freedom to determine its own curriculum and the financial security that came from student fee income, it became increasingly difficult for the
College to survive in its previous form. Rabbinic training was also uneconomic as many students looked to the Torah centres of Israel and America for their education and the number of available rabbinic posts in the UK decreased.
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