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The two Academy for Jewish Religion seminaries are transdenominational rabbinical schools located in Riverdale, New York and Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California

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. They are not affiliated beyond sharing a name, and the philosophy that Judaism can be innovative, profound and transformational.

The Academy for Jewish Religion, California (AJR-CA), located in the Yitzchak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA , trains rabbis, cantors and chaplains to serve congregations and organizations of any denomination or none.






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The two Academy for Jewish Religion seminaries are transdenominational rabbinical schools located in Riverdale, New York and Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
. They are not affiliated beyond sharing a name, and the philosophy that Judaism can be innovative, profound and transformational.

The Academy for Jewish Religion, California (AJR-CA), located in the Yitzchak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA , trains rabbis, cantors and chaplains to serve congregations and organizations of any denomination or none. Classes are held three days a week so that students can work at jobs and commute in, some from out of state. Founded in 2000 by a group of Los Angeles rabbis, AJR-CA provides an alternative to movement-driven, single-philosophy seminaries. Its faculty of accomplished and much-published scholars represents all denominations, so that the AJR-CA student is free to find which of the "70 faces of Torah" is true for themselves.

The Academy for Jewish Religion, Riverdale, NY was founded in 1956 as a rabbinical school, The Academy has been at the forefront of pluralistic rabbinic and cantorial training. Its graduates and students serve both movement-affiliated and non-affiliated congregations in North America and around the world, fulfilling the needs of Klal Yisrael
Klal Yisrael

Klal Yisrael is an expression that is often used among Jews of different Jewish denominations, streams, and ethnic backgrounds to describe a sense of shared community and destiny among all Jews, religious and non-religious, in Israel or in the Jewish diaspora....
 in this post-denominational era. Its teachings respectfully span the full spectrum of Judaism; its faculty and students cross denominational lines, representing the full spectrum of the Jewish community. Students ranging in age from their 20’s through their 60’s study together as colleagues. AJR considers itself the only seminary committed to training rabbis and cantors as equal partners in spiritual leadership.

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