{"id":84,"date":"2026-03-21T01:29:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T01:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aju.edu\/maas-center\/?page_id=84"},"modified":"2026-04-29T17:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:24:10","slug":"newsroom","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aju.edu\/maas-center\/newsroom\/","title":{"rendered":"News &amp; Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"section--hero heroBanner no-bg\"\n    aria-level=\"News &amp; Events\" id=\"\">\n\n                \n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <div class=\"heroBanner__content \">\n            <h2 class=\"text-display-1 text-aju-blue-3\">\n                News &#038; Events\n            <\/h2>\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"section--content-feed bg-maas-purple-4 text-white py-6 md:py-8 lg:py-16\" id=\"\"\n    aria-level=\"News\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        \n        <div class=\"flex justify-between mb-10.25 items-center\">\n            <h2 class=\"text-subhead-2 text-white mb-0\">News<\/h2>\n                            <a href=https:\/\/aju.edu\/maas-center\/news\/\n    class=\"inline-flex gap-2 items-center justify-center rounded-full border-2 text-button-text tracking-tight no-underline! 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inline-block\">\n                    News\n                <\/div>\n            \n            <div class=\"text-eyebrow text-white\">\n                                    June 22, 2026\n                            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n\n        \n                    <h3 class=\"text-subhead-3 text-white mb-0\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/aju.edu\/news\/aju-names-rabbi-john-carrier-senior-rabbi-and-director-of-jewish-education-for-the-maas-center-for-jewish-journeys\/\" class=\"hover:underline! no-underline! text-white\" \n                >\n                    AJU Names Rabbi John Carrier Senior Rabbi and Director of Jewish Education for the Maas Center for Jewish Journeys\n                <\/a>\n            <\/h3>\n        \n        \n                    <p class=\"text-white text-body-2 line-clamp-3\">\n                American Jewish University (AJU) today announced the appointment of Rabbi John Carrier as Senior Rabbi and Director of Jewish Education for the Maas Center for Jewish Journeys, bringing to the role an accomplished educator, congregational leader, digital content creator and &hellip;\n            <\/p>\n        \n        \n                                    <a href=https:\/\/aju.edu\/news\/aju-names-rabbi-john-carrier-senior-rabbi-and-director-of-jewish-education-for-the-maas-center-for-jewish-journeys\/\n    class=\"inline-flex gap-2 items-center justify-center rounded-full border-2 text-button-text tracking-tight no-underline! 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no-underline! text-white\" \n                >\n                    From Manila to Meaning: Patrick&#8217;s Journey Through AJU&#8217;s Intro to Judaism\n                <\/a>\n            <\/h3>\n        \n        \n                    <p class=\"text-white text-body-2 line-clamp-3\">\n                Being based approximately 7,300 miles from American Jewish University didn\u2019t stop Patrick John Ray Carpio, a resident of the Philippines, from tuning in each week for AJU\u2019s Intro to Judaism program.\u00a0 Carpio\u2014who was part of the November 2024 cohort\u2014lives in &hellip;\n            <\/p>\n        \n        \n                                    <a href=https:\/\/aju.edu\/news\/from-manila-to-meaning-patricks-journey-through-ajus-intro-to-judaism\/\n    class=\"inline-flex gap-2 items-center justify-center rounded-full border-2 text-button-text tracking-tight no-underline! cursor-pointer transition-all duration-300 ease-in-out px-5 py-5 border-0! p-0! bg-transparent! text-white rounded-none text-white border-b-2! pb-1.5! border-offset-2\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\">\n    \n            <span class=\"no-underline!\">Learn more<\/span>\n    \n        <\/a>\n                    \n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n                            <div class=\"flex flex-col  grid md:grid-cols-2 items-center gap-6 News\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"post-card--body flex flex-col gap-3 items-start \">\n\n        \n        <div class=\"flex gap-3 items-center\">\n                            <div\n                    class=\"bg-aju-blue-light px-3 py-1.5 text-eyebrow font-medium text-maas-purple-4 rounded-4xl no-underline! inline-block\">\n                    News\n                <\/div>\n            \n            <div class=\"text-eyebrow text-white\">\n                                    December 9, 2025\n                            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n\n        \n                    <h3 class=\"text-subhead-3 text-white mb-0\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/aju.edu\/news\/jewish-future-calling-and-aju-answering-0\/\" class=\"hover:underline! no-underline! text-white\" \n                >\n                    The Jewish future is calling \u2014 and AJU is answering\n                <\/a>\n            <\/h3>\n        \n        \n                    <p class=\"text-white text-body-2 line-clamp-3\">\n                Seven months ago, after a three-year planned hiatus from Jewish communal leadership, I became the president of American Jewish University (AJU) with only one goal: to reimagine and rebuild the foundation of Jewish life in North America.\u00a0A dear friend and &hellip;\n            <\/p>\n        \n        \n                                    <a href=https:\/\/aju.edu\/news\/jewish-future-calling-and-aju-answering-0\/\n    class=\"inline-flex gap-2 items-center justify-center rounded-full border-2 text-button-text tracking-tight no-underline! cursor-pointer transition-all duration-300 ease-in-out px-5 py-5 border-0! p-0! bg-transparent! text-white rounded-none text-white border-b-2! pb-1.5! border-offset-2\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\">\n    \n            <span class=\"no-underline!\">Learn more<\/span>\n    \n        <\/a>\n                    \n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-block-left-sidebar.blade.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-84","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aju.edu\/maas-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aju.edu\/maas-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aju.edu\/maas-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aju.edu\/maas-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aju.edu\/maas-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/aju.edu\/maas-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2304,"href":"https:\/\/aju.edu\/maas-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions\/2304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aju.edu\/maas-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}