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 Linda Shriner-Cahn has grappled with her Jewish heritage her entire life, striving to find meaning from and connection with those she never knew as a child of survivors of the Shoah. She has sought and continues to seek a Judaism that provides a guide to a meaningful life, a life with a sense of purpose and obligation. Coming from a home where the rhythm of life was that of the Jewish calendar, her family was warm, loving and functioned as More...
