Jewish Life

Welcome to Jewish Life

Fordham Jewish Life is an inclusive community for students, faculty, and staff where we support each other as we forge our own path to a meaningful Jewish life through cultural or spiritual connections, religious observance, and social action at Fordham and beyond. Together with our partners, we nurture multi-religious connections to promote safety, justice and healing, and we are proud to collaborate with other divisions across Fordham, including the Center for Jewish Studies as well as Baruch Hillel, and West Side Chabad.

Our Vision: Your Jewish home at Fordham

To be an inclusive community for students, faculty, and staff that enables each of us to forge our own path to a meaningful Jewish life through cultural or spiritual connections, religious observance, social action, or other avenues. We are engaged in nurturing multi-religious connections with others, implementing Fordham's Jesuit principles of caring for others and fighting for justice.

Our Mission

Fordham Jewish Life serves the communal and spiritual needs of students, faculty and staff as we pursue lives of belonging and meaning for ourselves at Fordham and beyond, lives that are informed by Jewish values, so that we may set the world on fire with Torah, service, and acts of loving kindness.

Inclusion

At Fordham Jewish Life, we affirm that we were all created betzelem elokim, in the image of the divine (Genesis 1:27). This means that you belong, regardless of your origin, level of observance, ethnicity, gender, class, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, neurodiversity, age, or political views.

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Would you like to talk to our Rabbi Katja Vehlow (she/her)? You can reach her at [email protected] or call her at 212-636-6405.