European Academy for Jewish Liturgy (EAJL) provides students with the skills and knowledge needed to sustain Jewish communities through accessible and appropriate mentoring in leading Jewish prayer services and lifecycle events, in individual and group settings, in-person and online.

Many communities do not employ a professional Chazan (Cantor) and rely on the leadership of committed lay people. The special skills for this leadership need to be enhanced and sometimes taught, even from scratch. EAJL trains them to be inspiring, sensitive and knowledgeable leaders of Jewish prayer services.

Learning with EAJL is accessed in many different modalities, including a biennial residential retreat, in-person learning at the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem, regular online courses, and our core one-to-one mentoring programmes.

We are a pluralist ‘Academy without Walls’, teaching students across the different Jewish traditions, denominations and geographical divides.