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Rabbi David Ellenson Explores "Why Be Jewish?"
Rabbi David Ellenson was among dozens of
Jewish writers and thinkers who met in Utah to explore questions of Jewish identity. "Why Be Jewish?,"
a three-day conference this week sponsored by the Samuel Bronfman Foundation, opened Sunday in Park City.
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Certificate in Jewish Communal Service
Program Graduates Honored
A culmination ceremony for graduates of
the Certificate in Jewish Communal Service Program will be held on August 8, 2007. Students in the Jewish Communal
Service Program have spent the past two summers studying Judaica, management and leadership concepts, contemporary
Jewish issues, and Jewish history and society under leading faculty and administration and practitioners in Jewish
education and communal service.
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Rabbi David Saperstein, HUC-JIR '1973,
Urges U.S. Senate Leaders to Remove Anonymous Hold on Sudan Sanctions Bill, From JTA's Breaking News
Reform leader urged U.S. Senate
leaders to remove an anonymous hold on a Sudan sanctions bills.
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Rabbi Ruth Abusch-Magder Named Director of
the Joint Commission on Sustaining Rabbinic Education
Rabbi Ruth Abusch-Magder
(HUC-JIR/NY 2006) has been named Director of the Joint Commission on Sustaining Rabbinic Education. Established
in 1994, the Joint Commission creates programs for continuing study for CCAR members and for rabbinic and other
alumni of HUC-JIR, in partnership with the College-Institute's Department of eLearning.
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Laurel Wolfson, MS, Promoted to Administrative
Librarian
Laurel Wolfson, MS has been promoted
to Administrative Librarian at HUC-JIR. Wolfson will oversee and coordinate budget and finances for the
four-campus Library system.
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Upcoming Events at HUC-JIR
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"The Answer," from the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
Among the 40 luminaries at the
event were Rabbi David Ellenson, president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.
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From the Jewish Week, How Community Relations Efforts Have Changed
Just as major new social trends and
generational choices are reshaping the landscape of American society, similar transitions are taking place in the
field of Jewish political advocacy, writes HUC-JIR/LA Dean Steven Windmueller
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From the
LA Times and the Jerusalem Post: Rabbi Carole Meyers, First Female Rabbi in LA, Dies
Rabbi Carole Meyers, who became the
first female rabbi to lead a congregation in the Los Angeles area when she took over Temple Sinai of Glendale in 1986,
has died. She was 50.
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Berlin
Jewish Cantorial School to Open, from JTA
The Abraham Geiger College at the
University of Potsdam, a Reform Jewish seminary, will open the Jewish Institute of Cantorial Arts next year and
will cooperate closely with the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Reform Jewry's school in Jerusalem.
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Does
Hollywood Give Jewish? From the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles
"It is no secret that Jews built Hollywood,
but less widely known is that Hollywood helped build L.A. Jewish life... That generation was less concerned with Jewish
education or culture or benevolent services than with telling the story of Jewish assimilation and affluence in
America, said Gerald Bubis, founding director of the Irwin Daniels School of Jewish Communal Service at Hebrew
Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion."
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New
Challenge to Summer Camps: Learn How to Raise Funds, from the Jewish Exponent
"A study -- conducted in 2006 by Steven
M. Cohen, a sociologist at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion -- found that 66 percent of those who
have attended Jewish camps consider their Jewish identity "very important," as opposed to 29 percent of those who have
never had that experience."
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Spotlight on HUC-JIR's Programs and
Research Resources
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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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