 The minor area includes professional qualifications such as pastoral care, bereavement counseling, and public speaking, as well as intellectual history and constitutional law.In 2013, the Seminary established an affiliate institution in partnership with the "Israelitische Religionsgemeinde zu Leipzig", the Institute for Traditional Liturgy, to train both rabbinical students and communal lay leaders to lead prayer services in accordance with halachic practice and normative ritual tradition.Among the Seminary's graduates were