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 Beshalah
By Rabbi/Cantor Anne Heath
There were no auditions!! There were no judges!! That's right. You heard it here first. When Moses and the Israelites sang on the shores of the sea (Exodus 15:1) and when...
Parashat Bo
By Rabbi Allen Darnov
Parashat Bo announces: "This month (Nissan) shall mark for you the beginning of the months; it shall be the first of the months of the year for you...." (Exod 12:2). This soun...
Parashat Va’era
By Rabbi Aryeh Meir
The previous parashah ends with the failure of Moshe's first attempt to free the Israelites from Egyptian bondage. Moshe reiterates his earlier doubts about his ability to lead ...
Parashat Shemot
By Professor Jerome Chanes
The opening chapters of the Book of Exodus relate a narrative that is strange, not in its story, but in its telling; it is a book that begins V'eleh shemot, "And these ar...
Parashat Vayehi
The Future - A Sealed Book?
Rabbi Len Levin
If you were handed a sealed envelope that you had reason to believe contained an infallible prediction of the future course of your life -- or of the wor...
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