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Upcoming Events at HUC-JIR
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The Bonnie & Daniel Tisch Fellows Program Presents Rabbi Larry Hoffman, Ph.D.
Rabbi Hoffman will speak on the changing rhetoric of Jewish responsibility to the HUC-JIR/NY
Community, on November 20, 2007, at 10:45 a.m.
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Bill Cutter to Speak on Healing and the Jewish Imagination, with Rachel Adler at JCC Library of LA
Cutter and Adler will lead a discussion Tuesday, November 27, 2007, at 7:00 p.m.
They will lead a discussion based on their scholarship about Judaism, health, and healing.
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Spotlight on HUC-JIR's Programs and
Research Resources
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Dismay Grows Among U.S., Israeli Jews Over Expressions of Intolerance and Bigotry
– Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
Rabbi David Ellenson, Ph.D., HUC-JIR President, reported the Orthodox rabbinate has been silent with regard to
Rabbi Eliyahu's attack. "Were Orthodox and other Jewish voices to be raised in protest against those obscene
thoughts and deeds, it would truly be an act of decency that would sanctify God's name."
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New Jewish Reform Prayer Book Broadens its Approach – From Religion News Service
"Our prayer book reflects our identity," said Rabbi Lawrence Hoffman, a professor of
liturgy at HUC-JIR/NY, who worked on the Siddur.
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Congregation Writes Torah, With Help From a Scribe – New York Times
Ammiel Hirsch, the senior rabbi of Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, told the congregation that "our expectation is that
every single one of us will participate in some way in drafting this Torah," honoring the 613th and final commandment,
in Deuteronomy, interpreted to mean that Jews must write a Torah.
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Historical Perspective: Taking a look at Terre Haute and the Industrial Removal Office – From the Tribune-Star
The role of Rabbi Emile Leipziger, HUC 1900, and Rabbi Elias Margolis, HUC 1901, in the settlement of Jewish immigrants
from metropolitan port cities on the eastern seaboard to communities in America's interior in Terre Haute, which was among
the 221 cities benefiting from the Industrial Removal Office.
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Reform Jews Build Ties Across Ocean – JTA
HUC-JIR alumni visit Central and Eastern European Reform communities.
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Second-Class? Not Those Glamorous Gals of Yore! – Philadelphia Jewish Exponent
Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, professor of Bible at HUC-JIR/LA, said that the pivotal roles played
by some biblical women -- including ruling queens and prophets -- are often too important to believe that the biblical
authors and redactors considered women somehow inferior or second-class citizens.
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Cantor Roslyn Barak celebrates 20 years at Emanu-El – Jewish News Weekly
With her conservatory-trained voice, Barak brought a level of high musicianship to her post.
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Rabbi Gives Cupid a Nudge with JDate – USA Today
The need is there, Rabbi Donald Weber said, because the American Jewish population has declined in recent decades, with
about half of American Jews marrying outside the religion, according to widely reported national surveys.
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Installation of Senior Cantor at Westchester Reform Temple – Westchester.com
Cantor Abramson's commitment to social justice work has led her to teach English in Indonesia and to direct a choir of
Israeli and Arab teenagers in Israel.
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Divine Coupling – The San Mateo County Times
Micah Citrin is one of four rabbis at the Congregation Beth Am in Los Altos Hills, and Karen Citrin is associate rabbi
at Peninsula Temple Beth El in San Mateo. They are a part of a slowly growing population of clergy couples in San Mateo
County who balance the burden of their congregations with married life.
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Founded in 1875, Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of Religion is the nation's oldest
institution of higher Jewish education and the academic, spiritual, and
professional development center of Reform Judaism. HUC-JIR educates men
and women for service to American and world Jewry as rabbis, cantors,
educators, and communal service professionals and offers graduate and
post-graduate degree programs for scholars of all faiths. With campuses in
Cincinnati, Los Angeles, New York, and Jerusalem, HUC-JIR's scholarly
resources comprise renowned library, archive, and museum collections, the American Jewish Archives,
biblical archaeology excavations, research centers and institutes, and
academic publications. HUC-JIR invites the community to an array of
cultural and educational programs that illuminate Jewish history, culture,
and contemporary creativity, and foster interfaith and multi-ethnic
understanding.
Visit us at
www.huc.edu.
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