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Marking BCI’s 85th Anniversary, Jewish Leaders Reflect on a Program That Shaped Their Lives
Years ago, Rabbi Sara B. Arias was showing Camp Alonim’s Israeli delegation around American Jewish University’s Brandeis-Bardin Campus in Simi Valley when she asked the young visitors what the landscape reminded them of.
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From Ziegler Student to Senior Rabbi: Daniel Cotzin Burg Begins New Chapter at Hamakom
"The Ziegler community was great," he recalled. "The faculty and the students really rallied around me and supported me in the moment."
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See allAJU Appoints Culture Strategist Robert Richman to 2050 Institute
Los Angeles, CA — American Jewish University today announced that Robert Richman, a globally recognized culture architect, author and speaker, has joined the university to help shape a bold new vision for the future of Jewish life through its recently established …
Learn more about AJU Appoints Culture Strategist Robert Richman to 2050 InstituteAJU Announces Winners of Jewish Future Video Fellowship
Los Angeles, CA — American Jewish University (AJU) has announced the winners of its Jewish Future Video Fellowship 2025, a creative contest grounded in AJU’s singular focus on the Jewish future and inviting participants to imagine and share what their perfect …
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See allMarking BCI’s 85th Anniversary, Jewish Leaders Reflect on a Program That Shaped Their Lives
Through communal living, arts, music, discussion, outdoor experiences and Jewish learning, the program has long sought to help young adults explore both Judaism and themselves.
Learn more about Marking BCI’s 85th Anniversary, Jewish Leaders Reflect on a Program That Shaped Their LivesIs Conservative Judaism Dying? An Interview with Jay Sanderson
Once the largest Jewish denomination in America, the Conservative movement is now experiencing a dramatic decline while Reform Judaism, Orthodoxy, Chabad, and independent Jewish communities reshape American Jewish life.Rabbi Daniel Levine sits down with Jay Sanderson, President and CEO of …
Learn more about Is Conservative Judaism Dying? An Interview with Jay SandersonAn Enrollment Reprieve for Rabbinical Schools
“We have to understand the needs of this generation of potential students. We felt like if we just tweaked around the edges, we weren’t going to make the impact we wanted to make.”
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