Trans-denominational seminary and graduate school Academy of Jewish Religion, California (AJRCA) has named Rabbi Joshua Hoffman as its new president and
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.