NEW YORK (JTA) — Three Jewish seminaries across the denominational spectrum will receive a total of $12 million to help train new Jewish educators. The Jim Joseph Foundation announced Tuesday that it will distribute the grants over a five-year period to the Conservative movement's Jewish Theological Seminary, the Reform Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and the Modern Orthodox Yeshiva University. Financial aid for students who are pursuing careers in education at each of the seminaries will get the first round of grants. The foundation will give the institutions $700,00 for each of the next five academic years for scholarships for future educators, as well as $563,000 for Yeshiva University, $221,900 for the Jewish Theological Seminary and $212,110 for Hebrew Union College in the 2009-10 term. The institutions must collaborate to develop innovative best practices and technologies for advancing Jewish teaching, the foundation stipulated.