The two Academy for Jewish Religion seminaries are transdenominational rabbinical schools located in Riverdale, New York and Los Angeles, California. They are not affiliated beyond sharing a name, and the philosophy that Judaism can be innovative, profound and transformational. Riverdale (population 46,013) is a well-to-do residential neighborhood in the northwest Bronx in New York City. ... Nickname: City of Angels Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: State California County Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Area - City 1,290. ...
The Academy for Jewish Religion, California (AJR-CA), located in the Yitzchak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA [1], trains rabbis, cantors and chaplains to serve congregations and organizations of any denomination or none. Classes are held three days a week so that students can work at jobs and commute in, some from out of state. Founded in 2000 by a group of Los Angeles rabbis, AJR-CA provides an alternative to movement-driven, single-philosophy seminaries. Its faculty of accomplished and much-published scholars represents all denominations, so that the AJR-CA student is free to find which of the "70 faces of Torah" is true for themselves.
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.
Cantor Dorothy Goldberg, Chair of the AJR Board, was invited by the Cantors Assembly to submit an original work of hers for the 2007 issue of their Journal of Synagogue Music.
AJR continues to put its inclusive vision into practice in terms of the areas of Jewish life it puts forward for study and exploration.
The former Provost and former President of the Academy for JewishReligion, California, Rabbi Mordecai Finley is the founding rabbi of Ohr Ha-Torah Congregation, Los Angeles, a traditional-progressive congregation.
Formerly under the tutelage of cantorial artists Hazzan Allan Michelson and Hazzan Samuel Kelemer and Jewish repertoire coach Erwin Jospe, Cantor Gole is a past faculty member of the University of Judaism's Baal Tefila Institute, he is mentor to numerous young hazzanim.
The co-founder and former president of the Academy for JewishReligion, CA, Rabbi Stephen Robbins is also the founding rabbi of Congregation N'vay Shalom in Los Angeles and the former spiritual leader of Temple Emanuel in Beverly Hills.
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