The Academy

 

Our mission:
Our aim is to create a vibrant, modern-orthodox program for Jewish scholarship, education and thought that inspires our community with a lifelong love of Jewish learning.
 
Our principal commitments:

• To educate adults by increasing their Jewish knowledge, improving their textual skills and building their confidence as independent learners.
• To develop outstanding educators who teach with love, respect, openness, intellectual honesty and creativity.
• To study with Yirat Shamayim, a profound reverence for Hashem, in order to appreciate Jewish knowledge within its G-dly context.
• To promote the full participation of women in Jewish learning.
• To foster a culture of love for knowledge, higher learning and open discussion within the field of Jewish learning.
• To promote a culture of respect and tolerance within the field of Jewish learning.
• To encourage our students to help create this culture through passing on their own knowledge and experiences at home and within their own communities.
• To exchange ideas at the highest level through academic research and the advanced study of traditional Jewish texts.
• To deepen our community’s understanding and love for Israel.
• To examine critical issues facing modern society with intellectual honesty, integrity and courage; in order to understand and develop Torah responses.
• To work with the wider community in achieving these goals.