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.

Join us for a CONCERT on May 21

Libbi BaMizrach - MY HEART IS IN THE EAST, feat...

Rabbi Irvin Ungar publishes new haggadah

Rabbi Irvin Ungar, AJR alumnus and antiquarian bookseller (www.historicana.com), has just published a new edition of the 1940 Szyk Haggadah. This unique edition was created using the latest advances i...

Ordination Approaches

We are looking forward to this year's ordination ceremonies to be held on May 22, 2008 in Smith Hall on the campus of the College of Mount Saint Vincent. The program is scheduled to begin at 4 pm ...

Rabbi Moshe Cotel (’03) in Featured in Jewish Week Article

Rabbi Moshe Cotel (’03) has been receiving requests from around the country to perform his program, Chronicles: A Jewish Life at the Classical Piano. Moshe was a renowned classical pianist, composer a...

Drucker to Publish New Book

Rabbi Malka Drucker, (AJR ’98) has just announced that her new book, Portraits of Jewish American Heroes, will be published in August 2008. In this book Rabbi Drucker, together with illustrato...

Women's Torah Commentary Published

AJR is proud to announce that Dr. Ora Horn Prouser, AJR Executive Vice President and Dean, Rabbi Jill Hammer, AJR Director of Spiritual Education, Rabbi Malka Drucker and Rabbi Judith Hauptman, AJR al...

AJR Gala Dinner

Join AJR on Monday, March 10, 2008 as we honor Dr. Phyllis Chesler with the 2008 Kehillah Award for Distinguished Public Service and Ms. Jane Dystel with the AJR Voices of Vision Award. Invitations wi...

Dr. Ora Horn Prouser D'var Torah in the Jewish Week

In the last year, The Jewish Week, one of New York’s Anglo-Jewish newspapers, changed its D’var Torah format to include the diverse voices of the Jewish community. This past week, our own Dr. ...

Staying Connected Shiur

AJR Alumni are invited to join us on Tuesday morning, February 5th, 2008 at 11 a.m., in person or on the phone, for a STAYING CONNECTED session with Hazzan Ramón Tasat.

This session entitled <...

Paskin to Write Song

David Paskin (AJR ’02), the "Rock n'Roll Rabbi" and who performed in concert to benefit AJR on January 13th has been commissioned by the Conservative movement to write and produce a song i...