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Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, AJU’s Goldstine Distinguished Scholar, received the Mathilde Schechter Award from the Women’s League for Conservative Judaism (WLCJ) during the organization’s international convention
Learn more about AJU’s Rabbi Bradley Artson Receives Women’s League for Conservative Judaism’s Prestigious Mathilde Schechter Award
In the summer of 1994, Gidi Grinstein arrived at American Jewish University’s Brandeis Camp Institute (BCI) as a 24-year-old Israeli naval officer preparing for what he expected would be a long military career. Twenty-eight days later, he left with a …
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Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, AJU’s Goldstine Distinguished Scholar, received the Mathilde Schechter Award from the Women’s League for Conservative Judaism (WLCJ) during the organization’s international convention
Learn more about AJU’s Rabbi Bradley Artson Receives Women’s League for Conservative Judaism’s Prestigious Mathilde Schechter AwardIn the summer of 1994, Gidi Grinstein arrived at American Jewish University’s Brandeis Camp Institute (BCI) as a 24-year-old Israeli naval officer preparing for what he expected would be a long military career. Twenty-eight days later, he left with a …
Learn more about ‘I Went as an Israeli and Came Back a Jew’: How BCI Shaped Community Leader Gidi Grinstein’s Life