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HUC-JIR Co-Sponsors Gender and Bible Conference in New York Conference
The conference, honoring the memory of
Tikva Frymer-Kensky, the inaugural Rabbi Sally F. Priesand Visiting Professor at HUC-JIR, will feature HUC-JIR faculty,
including Dr. Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, Professor of Bible, HUC-JIR/LA, and Debbie Friedman, Instructor in Music at HUC-JIR's
School of Sacred Music in New York.
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Los Angeles Campus Honors Beloved Maintenance Director
This past June, HUC-JIR/LA lost a
remarkable, much-beloved staff member, Dax Clark, who during his seven years with us had served as Administrative Assistant
in the Rabbinic School and later Director of Maintenance.
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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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On Israel, a Generation Gap – US News and World Report
The report, "Beyond Distancing," focuses on
what authors Steven Cohen, a research professor at HUC-JIR, and Ari Kelman believe is a key indicator of a change from a
more collective, ethnic, or even tribal view of being Jewish toward what they call "privatized Judaism."
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Klau Library Revamp to Start Soon – Cincinnati Enquirer
With 465,000 volumes, the library has the
largest collection of printed Judaica in North America. The project will renovate and expand the building and
includes state-of-the-art equipment and is funded by 50 donors, led by a $6.5 million donation from the Jewish
Foundation of Cincinnati.
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High Holidays of Romance – New York Sun
Larry Raphael, from his pulpit at
HUC-JIR's community services, said he witnessed the first flowerings of about 10 marriages for which he was later
asked to officiate. "It certainly made me pleased."
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Chart a New Course for the New Year – Jewish Journal of Greater LA
"Healing and the Jewish Imagination:
Spiritual and Practical Perspectives on Judaism and Health," edited by Rabbi William Cutter (Jewish Lights), Director
of the Kalsman Institute at HUC-JIR, is a collection of provocative essays delving into the relationship between classical
Jewish texts and contemporary health issues, linking body, mind and spirit.
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I Remember Them Well – Wall Street Journal
Yizkor dates back to the Crusades,
when thousands of Jews were massacred in Europe. There were so many dead that Jewish communities began keeping books listing
the names of the victims, according to Lawrence Hoffman, a Friedman Professor of Liturgy, Worship, and Ritual at
HUC-JIR/New York.
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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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