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AJRCA Announces Rabbi Joshua Hoffman as New President and CEO AdministrationAlumniFacultynewsSept-22-Jun-23timely topics

AJRCA Announces Rabbi Joshua Hoffman as New President and CEO

LOS ANGELES, October 19, 2022 – The Academy for Jewish Religion California (AJRCA) has announced a new President and CEO of the seminary and graduate school which recently moved to the campus of Loyola Marymount University. Rabbi Joshua Hoffman will succeed retiring President Rabbi Mel Gottlieb who has led the Academy for much of the last 20 years. “We are…
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October 19, 2022
LMU and Academy for Jewish Religion California Launch Partnership to Develop Academic and Interfaith Initiatives AdministrationAlumniFacultytimely topics

LMU and Academy for Jewish Religion California Launch Partnership to Develop Academic and Interfaith Initiatives

LOS ANGELES, November 3, 2021 -- A new partnership between Loyola Marymount University (LMU) and the Academy for Jewish Religion California (AJRCA) will bring scholars from both faith traditions together in the same location, opening the door to inter-religious dialogue, collaborative teaching and learning opportunities, and interfaith community-building initiatives. AJRCA, a transdenominational graduate seminary dedicated to the training of rabbis,…
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November 3, 2021
AJRCA Names New Deans of the Rabbinic and Cantorial Schools AdministrationAlumniFacultytimely topics

AJRCA Names New Deans of the Rabbinic and Cantorial Schools

The Academy for Jewish Religion California (AJRCA) announced today that both its Rabbinic and Cantorial schools will have new deans when the 2021-22 school year begins on August 1, 2021. After being on faculty since 2018, Rabbi Dr. Tal Sessler has been named Dean of the Rabbinic School. Long time faculty member, and recent AJRCA rabbinic graduate, Rabbi Cantor Sam…
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June 28, 2021
A Conversation with… Editors of “Nondenominational Judaism” A Conversation With...Alumnibloggraduatestimely topics

A Conversation with… Editors of “Nondenominational Judaism”

AJRCA President Rabbi Mel recently sat down with AJRCA faculty members Cantor Jonathan L. Friedmann and Joel Gereboff, two of the three editors (along with AJRCA co-founder Rabbi Steve Robbins) of the new book, "Nondenominational Judaism: Perspectives on Pluralism and Inclusion in 21st-Century Jewish Professional Education." The book includes essays from faculty, administrators and alumni from AJRCA and other institutions,…
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February 26, 2021
Perspectives on the 2020 High Holy Days – Overview 2020 HHDAlumnistudentstimely topics

Perspectives on the 2020 High Holy Days – Overview

At this point, saying that 2020 is unprecedented nothing new. It might even be an understatement. But when it comes to how Jewish congregations -- and their clergy -- experienced the High Holy Days, there is really no precedent. With all of the talk before the holidays about how synagogues and others were preparing for what normally are some of…
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October 29, 2020
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Perspectives on the 2020 High Holy Days – Part 1

This post is part of our series: Perspectives on the 2020 High Holy Days. (Click here to see a list of all the posts in this series.) In this post, we hear from members of the AJRCA community about how their synagogue approached the High Holy Days this year as compared to previous years. As you might imagine, we received…
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October 29, 2020
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A Conversation with… Rabbi Mark Diamond A Conversation With...A Few Minutes With...blogFacultySept-20-Jun-21timely topics

A Conversation with… Rabbi Mark Diamond

Rabbi Mel recently sat down with AJRCA Faculty and Board member Rabbi Mark Diamond to discuss the release of his new book. Rabbi Diamond is the co-editor of "Understanding Covenants and Communities: Jews and Latter-Day Saints in Dialogue." This book comes out of the Jewish--Latter-day Saint Academic Dialogue Project, a groundbreaking interfaith encounter between these two religious communities and it…
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September 25, 2020