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The
Los Angeles School offers a unique opportunity for students preparing
for three different professional fields to learn together. Communal
service, education and rabbinical students share the campus and interact
in a variety of special programs. In day-to-day conversations about
school and field work, issues about Jewish life and the Jewish community
are shared. This setting provides an important model for the shared
leadership which these groups of professionals will need to exercise
in guiding the Jewish community. The Rhea Hirsch School of Education
sponsors many co-curricular opportunities for its students. Meetings
with educational leaders who are visiting Los Angeles, the biennial
Rhea Hirsch School alumni-in-residence program, special seminars with
the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, and
the annual study retreat with the academic and clinical faculty are
but a few examples. The riches of the Los Angeles Jewish community
provide many opportunities to encounter a diversity of Jews, Jewish
ideologies and Jewish institutions.
Religious Services M.A.J.E. and Joint Masters students participate in daily worship on the Los Angeles campus along with the rabbinical and communal service programs. Students assume responsibility for leading services, reading Torah and delivering Divrei Torah. Worship at the Los Angeles campus provides students with an opportunity to participate in a worship community while experimenting with their leadership styles in the particular roles in which they serve. |
