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Name:Aaron L. Alexander
Title :
Associate Dean, Ziegler School, Lecturer in Rabbinics and Jewish Law
E-mail:aalexander@ajula.edu
Phone:Ext. 510

Education

University of Florida, B. A. (Religion)  1999
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 now serves on the Board of Directors.

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 also contributed traditional text chapters to the first three editions of the JPS series, Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices.
Read some of Rabbi Alexander's rabbinic text study materials  

Additional Content 

Rabbi Alexander's daily morning session on Jewish Law is recorded and shown via podcast at www.zieglerpodcasts.com
Listen to Rabbi Alexander's daily morning session on Jewish Law (and podcast)!