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For the first time, AJR is offering a week of immersion in Sacred Arts: artistic expression devoted to the exploration of sacred text and conversation with the Divine. After years of integrating creative arts into its curriculum, AJR is now offering this program to educators, artists, seminary student, and anyone interested in making the Torah come alive. Click here to read more.
AJR will ordained 5 new rabbis and honored Rabbi Aryeh Meir with the Faculty Award and Rabbi Chuck Lightner with the Alumni Award. Click here for the invitation. To learn more about the students who were ordained, please read their bios....More...
The Academy for Jewish Religion expresses its shock and sadness at the events at the Boston Marathon. We cry over the losses along with all people of conscience in America and in the world....More...
Rabbi Sanford (Sandy) Olshansky is the product of a dysfunctional Jewish background. His European-born, Yiddish-speaking parents, z"l, were both raised in Orthodox homes. The Judaism of his mother's family was joyous and loving and she embraced it. The Judaism of his father's family was dogmatic and heavy-handed. Sandy's father, uncle and aunts all rebelled. Sandy's father used to complain that if his mother educated him too much about Judaism he More...
