Temple Israel of Putnam Valley and Rabbi Stephen Axinn in sustaining the Jewish People, connecting them to each other, to all Jews, and to Sinai. We are profoundly grateful for their magnanimous support of AJR. The Academy is honored to carry on your work wherever Jews gather and form communities.
“ The synagogue was one of Jewry’ s greatest creations. It sustained the Jewish people through almost two thousand years of exile.... It was their spiritual home, educational citadel and welfare centre, and it connected them to all other Jews through time and space. Wherever ten Jews gathered and formed a community, it was as if they were the entire Jewish people in microcosm. Wherever they sat and studied it was as if they were back at Sinai.”
- Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
We celebrate the historic contribution of
Temple Israel of Putnam Valley and Rabbi Stephen Axinn in sustaining the Jewish People, connecting them to each other, to all Jews, and to Sinai. We are profoundly grateful for their magnanimous support of AJR. The Academy is honored to carry on your work wherever Jews gather and form communities.
Dr. Ora Horn Prouser Rabbi Joseph H. Prouser
88 AJR 2025