Academy for Jewish Religion

Start on your new path as a Jewish leader! #OurStudentsSayItBest! #OurAlumniSayItBest! #OurFacultySayItBest!! Listen to AJR faculty member, Rabbi David Markus talk about how AJR trains Jewish leaders to integrate body, mind, heart, and spirit. Join us at our our Open House on October 27th and learn more. (see flyer below) www.ajr.edu

In this week's D'var Torah Rabbi Jeffrey Segelman explores the verses of creation as lessons in love. https://ajr.edu/2020/10/parashat-bereishit-5781/

Start on your new path as a Jewish leader! #OurStudentsSayItBest! #OurAlumniSayItBest! Listen to AJR alumna, Rabbi Lisa Sacks, talk about how "AJR taught me how to learn, and AJR taught me how to teach." Join us at our our Open House on October 27th and learn more. (see flyer below) www.ajr.edu

Start on your new path as a Jewish leader! #OurStudentsSayItBest! Listen to AJR rabbinical student, Steven Goldstein talk about how :"every day at AJR is a revelation." Join us at our our Open House on October 27th and learn more. (see flyer below) www.ajr.edu

AJR's Open House is a great opportunity to sit in on some engaging classes, meet some wonderful students and faculty, and learn more about our school. Come join us.

Our Sages connect the shofar blast which ends Yom Kippur to the festival of Purim, and the freeing of slaves during Biblical times. In his D'var Torah this week Rabbi Irwin Huberman asks, 'How are the three intertwined?' https://ajr.edu/2020//parashat-haazinu-and-yom-kippur-5781/

, . The Judge of justice and truth, blessed is the true Judge. The Academy for Jewish Religion mourns the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She spent her life fighting for constitutional law, democracy, and the full legal, professional, and social enfranchisement of women. Her memory is a blessing.

We are happy to share the Rosh Hashanah message that our CEO and Academic Dean, Dr. Ora Horn Prouser shared with our community. What a year it has been! We are living in strange and complicated times. We have seen so many crises this year, climate crises: health crises, and social and societal crises. We are living with social distancing and anxiety. And yet, we are seeing so much resilience, and deep expressive caring among people. We are seeing that we can band togethe...Continue reading

What if we really felt the future standing on our shoulders? What would we say if we heard the future staking its claim to the Covenant? In this pivotal moment before the High Holy Days when the future hangs in the balance, join AJR faculty member Rabbi David Markus as we invoke the "fierce urgency of now" to honor the future's claim on the Covenant today. https://ajr.edu/2020/09/parashat-nitzavim-vayeilekh-5780/

In this week's D'var Torah, Rabbi Heidi Hoover notes that our stories teach about what is important to us in our identities and asks "What are your stories?" https://ajr.edu/2020/09/parashat-ki-tavo-5780/

In this week's D'var Torah Rabbi Matthew Goldstone explores racism through the lens of Parashat Ki Teitzei. https://ajrsem.org/2020/08/parashat-ki-teitzei-5780/

In this week's D'var Torah Rabbi Len Levin looks at Parashat Shofetim and finds examples of three interdependent principles https://ajrsem.org/2020/08/parashat-shofetim-5780/