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HUC-JIR Faculty and Administration at the URJ/WRJ Biennial Conventions
HUC-JIR faculty and administration will be featured in numerous sessions at the URJ and WRJ conventions in San Diego,
December 12-16, 2007. Highlights include presentations by Barbara Friedman, Chair, HUC-JIR Board of Governors, Rabbi
David Ellenson, Dr. Norman Cohen, and scholars-in-residence Dr. Rachel Adler, Rabbi Sam Joseph, Dr. David Levine, and Dr.
Aaron Panken, alumni Shabbat study with Dr. Reuven Firestone, recruitment workshops, and the HUC-JIR exhibit in the
resource mall.
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Women's Torah Commentary to Debut at Biennial
The Torah: A Women's Commentary, edited by Dr. Tamara Cohn Eskenazi and Rabbi Andrea Weiss, both of HUC-JIR's
faculty, will debut at the Joint URJ/WRJ plenary session.
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Upcoming Events at HUC-JIR
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Spotlight on HUC-JIR's Programs and
Research Resources
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Upcoming Events and Programs at the Jerusalem Campus
The HUC-JIR/Jerusalem community will feature a Festive Hanukkah Candle Lighting for Students and Faculty on Monday,
December 10th. On December 20th, HUC-JIR Cantorial students will present a concert: Melodies and Prayers, featuring
liturgical songs and art songs in Yiddish and Ladino.
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Eco-Kashrut Supporters Turn Their Attention to Kosher Meat – Jerusalem Post
Gersh Lazerow, a fourth-year rabbinical student at HUC-JIR/New York, hopes to become a shochet to combine his
liberal values with Jewish tradition. "I think kashrut has value to modern progressive Jewish practice," he says.
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'Wake-Up Call' For The Denominations – Jewish Week
There should be a "wake-up call" to the major denominations of Judaism, which have seen drops in their membership levels
over the last several decades, says Rabbi Lawrence Hoffman, a faculty member at the HUC-JIR and senior academic fellow
of the Synagogue 3000 research institute. "While initially somewhat more concentrated in New York, Los Angeles and other
areas of high Jewish residential concentration than elsewhere, they have spread throughout the U.S. and Canada," the
report states.
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Study Looks Beyond Shul – Forward
Sociologist Steven M. Cohen, who led the study, argued that even without being able to gauge the total number of
participants in these groups, the demographic profile of the participants themselves was significant. "These are
young, nonmarried adults. They don't join synagogues," he said. "So the fact that they're showing up at all is
surprising."
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HUC-JIR Honors Schwartz at Fundraiser – American Israelite (PDF)
Over 400 supporters, colleagues, friends, students, and faculty of HUC-JIR gathered to honor Ted Schwartz's
civic and philanthropic leadership.
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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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