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  • Calendar

    • Jun 19
      Summer Session I
    • Jun 24
      Summer Session I
    • Jun 26
      Summer Session I
    • Jul 8
      Sacred Arts Institute
    • Jul 9
      Sacred Arts Institute
    • Jul 10
      Sacred Arts Institute
    • Jul 11
      Sacred Arts Institute

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  • Sacred Arts Institute, July 8-11

    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. Educators, artists, seminary students, and anyone else interested in making the Torah come alive is invited. Click here to read more.

  • AJR Ordination Thursday, May 9, 2013

    AJR ordained five 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...

    Shock and sadness at the events at the Boston Marathon

    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...

  • Featured Alumni Story

    April 16, 2012 - Rabbi Aaron Liebman

    Rabbi Aaron Liebman's family of origin has always been very committed to the Jewish people, Jewish survival, and Jewish academics. Jewish religion is another matter. One of Aaron's great-great-great-grandfathers was a prominent Austro-Hungarian Jewish jurist, one of his great-grandfathers served as president of the Galicianer Farband, one of his grandfathers was an outspoken Zionist and an early scholar of Latin American Jewry, and his father was More...