Academy for Jewish Religion (California)

It trains rabbis, cantors and chaplains to serve congregations and organizations of any Jewish denomination.

[1] In its first years the school was housed in a small temple in West Los Angeles,[2] later moving to the Yitzchak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA.

It ordained its first three rabbis in 2003, and provided a means for students to pursue rabbinical studies while still working in other jobs.

[3] In January 2013 Tamar Frankiel became the president of the Academy for Jewish Religion, making her the first Orthodox woman to lead an American rabbinical school.

[6] The Academy returned "home", to UCLA Hillel in the fall of 2017, and in 2021 it moved to the campus of Loyola Marymount University.