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Aaron L. Alexander

Associate Dean of the Ziegler School; Lecturer in Rabbinic Studies and Jewish Law

aalexander@ajula.edu

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Education

University of Florida, B. A. (Religion)  2001
Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem, 1999-2001
American Jewish University, M.A. (Rabbinic Studies)  2003
American Jewish University, Ordination 2006

 

Biography

Rabbi Aaron Alexander is the Associate Dean of the Ziegler School and Lecturer in Rabbinics and Jewish Law.  Along with his academic teaching he gives an early morning class in Halakhah that is recorded for Jewish learners worldwide and posted to www.zieglerpodcasts.com. Rabbi Alexander also contributes to Today's Torah, the Ziegler School's weekly Parsha commentary.
Rabbi Alexander teaches Talmud and Rabbinical Literature throughout Los Angeles to students of all ages and all walks of life. He was a founding staff member at Camp Ramah Darom in 1997, where he worked 10 summers and served on the Board of Directors.  Rabbi Alexander is also one of the founders of Ma'or (www.maortorah.com), an open and innovative Bet Midrash serving the Los Angeles Jewish Community. He is a certified mashgiach (kosher supervisor) by the the Conservative Movement's Rav Hamachshir program and currently serves on its Committee for Jewish Law and Standards.

Publications

Rabbi Alexander has been published in the "Walking With..." series (www.walkingwith.org) with a fresh article on the Jewish view of 'Singlehood' as well as an article on Shabbat (co-authored with Rabbi Sharon Brous).  He is published in CJ: Voices of Conservative/Masorti Judaism as well as the Huffington Post.  Rabbi Alexander also contributed traditional text chapters to the first three editions of the JPS series, "Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices."  Rabbi Alexander has also co-authored with Rabbi Brad Artson an accepted responsum (teshuvah) with the Conservative Movement's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Additional Professional Accomplishments

Rabbi Alexander’s daily morning session on Jewish law is recorded and shown via podcast at www.zieglerpodcasts.com.  


See Rabbi Alexander's rabbinic source material, here: http://ziegler.ajula.edu/default.aspx?id=8601