American Jewish University

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• Over the past five decades, the American Jewish University has flourished into a nationally recognized educational institution—one that fully reflects and embraces the rich diversity of American Jewish life. This sense of inclusiveness dates back to the university’s founding days in 1947, when Dr. Mordecai Kaplan, the author of “Judaism as a Civilization,’’ conceived of an institution that would embody as many forms of Jewish expression as possible.
• Our programs includes College of Arts and Sciences, University’s graduate programs, Master of Arts in Jewish Communal Studies, Master of Arts in Education, The Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies.
• College of Arts and Sciences Serious scholarship and innovative curricula place this academic program among the most vibrant in the nation. Our MBA and Master of Arts programs are ably training professionals for leadership roles at a variety of cultural, social service, educational and religious institutions. Master of Arts in Jewish Communal Studies: This new program was created to train graduates for positions within the professional leadership of the Jewish communal institutions.
• University resources includes Ostrow Library, Gindi Auditorium, Platt Art Gallery, Smalley Sculpture Garden and Max and Pauline Zimmer Conference Center.
• Profile last updated: 00/00/0000.

In the News:

• AJU’s Robert Wexler looks ahead (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles)
  posted on May 4, 2011 at 01:49:40 am
  Robert Wexler, president of American Jewish University (AJU), eschews the labels of Judaism’s mainstream denominations. “I’m Jewish,” Wexler said last week. “Religious.”
• AJU women to honor filmmaker Mazursky (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles)
  posted on April 26, 2011 at 11:34:58 pm
  Filmmaker Paul Mazursky will be honored with the Burning Bush Award by the University Women of the American Jewish University (AJU) at the group’s author-artist luncheon on May 3.
• U.S. Holocaust museum pushes West Coast visibility (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles)
  posted on April 26, 2011 at 11:20:17 pm
  During a lecture on genocide prevention at American Jewish University (AJU) on April 13, Michael Abramowitz, director of the Committee on Conscience at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, discussed a shift in the international community’s view of how to handle crimes against humanity.
• Dancing with the Rabbis? (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles)
  posted on April 13, 2011 at 12:20:49 am
  On April 3, under the auspices of the American Jewish University, in its Gindi Auditorium, five Los Angeles rabbis competed with one another in an evening titled “Dancing With the Rabbis.” As reported in this newspaper, the sellout crowd loved the evening.
• Dancing rabbis win cheers (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles)
  posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:34:37 pm
  A sell-out crowd packed the American Jewish University’s (AJU) Gindi Auditorium on April 3 and watched as Rabbi Zoë Klein of Temple Isaiah tangoed her way to the inaugural “Dancing With the Rabbis” trophy.

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