Traditions, Innovations,
and Visions
AJR accepts exceptional students, without regard to race, age, gender or sexual orientation, who commit themselves to the highest ideals of devotion to God, Torah and Israel. We afford our students the freedom to explore, experiment and struggle with their personal sense of Jewish life and with their own role in the larger Jewish community. A solid grounding in the vast richness of our multi-voiced tradition provides our students with the foundations for developing their own creative and inclusive visions that are destined to have a deep impact on the Jewish community. Our seminary's openness to many views and our appreciation that the Jewish community is thirsting for innovation and vision makes AJR a uniquely exciting environment for nurturing our students and for challenging them to grow to become the spiritual leaders they want to be.
Parashat Ki Tavo
By Steve Altarescu
If Deuteronomic theology has not troubled you so far, Ki Tavo will now challenge you as it pushes the concept of reward and punishment to the limit. For the purpose of review her...
Parashat Ki Tetze
By Rabbi Leonard Levin
A famous midrash tells how Moses argued with the angels that the Torah, though a creature of heaven, was destined for use on earth. “Do you have urges to murder, to commit ...
The Sisterhood: America’s Influential Women Rabbis
We at AJR are so proud that among those fifty women rabbis chosen as most influential by The Forward in "The Sisterhood: America's Influential Women Rabbis" are three AJR community members: Rabbi Jill...
Personal Reflections on This Year’s Ordination
By Rabbi Jeff Hoffman, Rabbi-in-Residence
A few days before the most recent AJR Ordination ceremony, I experienced the wide-angled perspective that results from observing the browns, greens and whi...
AJR Joins with Overlook Hospital Foundation to Honor Rabbi Horn and the Pastoral Care Department of Overlook Hospital
The Academy for Jewish Religion and The Overlook Hospital Foundation are pleased to jointly sponsor an important and unique event honoring the decades of service provided by Rabbi William Horn and Ove...
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