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AJU’s Rabbi Bradley Artson Receives Women's League for Conservative Judaism's Prestigious Mathilde Schechter Award
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
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‘I Went as an Israeli and Came Back a Jew’: How BCI Shaped Community Leader Gidi Grinstein’s Life
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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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 allAn 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.”
Learn more about An Enrollment Reprieve for Rabbinical SchoolsMarking 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 LivesHineni: Choosing Torah
As always, we each have the power to choose to listen, to learn, and to grow, or we can shut our ears to that still, small voice. Are you listening? Are you willing? Are you here?
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