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Academy for Jewish Religion California To Ordain and Graduate 10 Jewish Leaders
Celebrating and honoring the achievements and natural gifts of our 2021 ordinees and graduates.
) will ordain and graduate a group of Jewish leaders who serve as agents of transformation in their communities.
AJRCA was founded in 2000 by three creative, spiritual, activist rabbis – Rabbi Stan Levy, Rabbi Stephen Robbins, and Rabbi Mordecai Finley – who, after being approached by congregants and community members looking to pursue rabbinic or cantorial ordination, recognized the need for a new kind of Jewish spiritual leader: one who could effectively serve the 21st-century American Jewish community in all its diversity. Determined to create the highest caliber institution, representing all of Judaism’s denominations and beyond, the founders recruited an illustrious faculty and administration. A group of dedicated and highly motivated community leaders soon formed the first cohort of students.