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Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk, Chancellor Emeritus, Participates
in Catholic-Jewish Conference at Vatican
The four-day conference of 75 representatives
from churches and synagogues across the United States and Vatican leadership focused on challenges facing
Jewish-Catholic relations.
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Recent Books by HUC-JIR Alumni
Frederick E. Greenspahn, C '73, edited
The Hebrew Bible: New Insights and Scholarship, published by NYU Press. Dundurn Press published two works by
Johnathan V. Plaut, C '70, DHL '77, The Jews of Windsor, 1790-1990 - A Historical Chronicle and One Voice:
The Selected Sermons of W. Gunther Plaut, C '39.
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HUC-JIR School of Sacred Music and the H.L. Miller Cantorial
School of JTS Join Together for the Joint Project of Women's Song
HUC-JIR has five remarkable first-year students
in the School for Sacred Music and has recently piloted a new project in conjunction with JTS first-year cantorial students.
The project is not only unique because it is the first time the students are working and learning together in Jerusalem,
but additionally, all the first year students from both HUC-JIR and JTS are women.
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Spotlight on HUC-JIR's Programs and
Research Resources
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Judaism, Health, and Healing for Physicians –
Distance Education Course from the Kalsman Institute on Judaism and Health
The Kalsman Institute on Judaism and Health,
in partnership with Temple Chai in Phoenix, Arizona, is offering a program of Jewish study for Jewish physicians. The goal
is to use Jewish study as a source of renewal - to help physicians integrate clinical and spiritual life. It is for
physicians interested in exposure to Jewish learning related to Judaism and health and is available as a distance
education course.
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HUC Press Publishes Let Me Continue to Speak the
Truth: Bertha Pappenheim as Author and Activist, by Elizabeth Loentz
In 1953 Freud biographer Ernest Jones
revealed that the famous hysteric Anna O. was really Bertha Pappenheim (1859-1936), the prolific author, German-Jewish
feminist, pioneering social worker, and activist. Elizabeth Loentz directs attention away from the young woman who
arguably invented the "talking cure" and back to Pappenheim and her post-Anna O. achievements, especially her writings,
which reveal her to be one of the most versatile, productive, influential, and controversial Jewish thinkers and
leaders of her time.
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Upcoming Events at HUC-JIR
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Archeology Lecture at HUC-JIR/Jerusalem
HUC-JIR/Jerusalem will hold an Archeology
Lecture: The Discovery of King Herod's Tomb at Herodium (in Hebrew) with Ehud Netzer on Thursday, Dec 27, 2007 at
5:00 p.m.
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Jews and Muslims Set Up Big Interfaith Effort – The Washington Post
"As a once-persecuted minority in countries
where anti-Semitism is still a force, we understand the plight of Muslims in North America today," said Rabbi Eric H.
Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism.
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Reform Leader Embraces Shabbat as Antidote to 'Microwave Culture' – The Jerusalem Post
"It will mean... approaching Shabbat with
the creativity that has always distinguished Reform Judaism," said Rabbi Yoffie. "It will mean emphasizing the 'Thou shalts'
of Shabbat candles and Kiddush, rest and study, prayer and community - rather than the 'Thou shalt nots.'"
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Summer
Activities Push Camps to Offer Variety – The Jewish Journal
A study, conducted by Steven M. Cohen,
HUC-JIR research professor of Jewish social policy, found that Jewish kids are twice as likely to attend nonsectarian camps
as Jewish camps, and that a high percentage of kids attend multiple camps in one summer, some of them Jewish, some of
them nonsectarian specialty camps.
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A
Brighter Polish Future – The Jewish Chronicle
Warsaw's new Reform Rabbi, U.S.-born Bert
Schuman, N '95, also sees newly religious Jews in his congregation, where members gather for services, study, and meals.
Jews increasingly feel safe here – whether in an Orthodox or Reform setting. Poland today is, by many accounts, both
supportive of Israel and of its own Jewish communities.
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Rural Converts
Journey Into Judaism – The Forward
Dozens of Cairo, IL residents – all
African American and ranging from toddler to senior citizen – visited a mikveh in Memphis on December 9 and took
the plunge
into conversion. It was the culmination of an 18-month spiritual journey that has brought a number of Reform and
Conservative Jews into common cause with a group of spiritual seekers from a town that is predominantly black and poor.
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Torah
That Moves – The Jewish Journal
The "performer" was a modestly dressed
Jewish woman in her early 40s named Andrea Hodos, an artist-in-residence at HUC-JIR, and we met in one of their conference
rooms as part of their "Lunch and Learn" series. Hodos came to enlighten us on "the power of the body to think and the mind
to move." I could have heard this kind of Torah at any synagogue, but at HUC-JIR that day, I didn't just hear it. I saw
it, experienced it and felt it -- I saw how the interplay of words and movement can add new layers of meaning.
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A Renewed Emphasis On Shabbat – The Jewish Week
Talk to rabbinical students at HUC-JIR and
you learn that many of them are deeply committed to a level of Jewish learning and observance that surpasses those of
earlier generations of rabbis. But the students would be the first to acknowledge the wide gap between the minority of
young people like them in the movement and the majority of Reform members who are far removed from religious practice.
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Why A Women's Torah Commentary? – The Jewish Week
For much of the long and illustrious history
of Jewish biblical exegesis, commentaries have been written by men. Such commentaries typically aim to elucidate the plain
sense of the text and make the Bible meaningful for subsequent generations. "The Torah: A Women's Commentary" strives to
do the same.
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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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