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DeLeT Receives Major Foundation Grant
The Jim Joseph Foundation has awarded
a grant of $427,000 to the Day School Leadership through Teaching program, HUC-JIR's fellowship program dedicated to
fostering teaching excellence in North America's Jewish day schools. The grant will allow DeLeT to recruit and prepare
at least eight novice teachers and provide support to an equal number of teachers during their initial years in the
classroom.
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The
Power of a Hyphen – The Jewish Week
In the documentary "The Jewish Americans,"
a three-part series spanning six hours that begins Wednesday on PBS, HUC-JIR President Rabbi David Ellenson, Ph.D. says
America has evolved from haven to home. The series focuses on the challenges Jews faced in becoming part of American
society while maintaining their distinct ethnic and religious identity.
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NFTY-EIE Teens Visit HUC-JIR/Jerusalem
On December 26, thirty-five NFTY-EIE
(North American Federation of Temple Youth's Eisendrath International Exchange High School in Israel program) students
visited the HUC-JIR/Jerusalem campus to learn about the Rabbinical, Cantorial, Education, and Communal Service programs.
The students toured the Jerusalem campus and were encouraged to think about becoming Jewish Professionals in the Reform
Movement. The approximately 100 EIE students in Israel for the spring semester plan to visit the Jerusalem campus as
well.
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Spotlight on HUC-JIR's Programs and
Research Resources
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Upcoming Events at HUC-JIR
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Upcoming Concerts at HUC-JIR/Jerusalem
Allan Sternfield will have a piano
recital Thursday, January 17, 2008. Cantors Eliyahu Schleifer, Jose Wolff and Tamar Havilio, and pianist Aya Schleifer
will perform The Cantor's Legacy on Thursday, February 7. The Hallel Community Choir will participate in Kabbalat
Shabbat services in the Har-El Synagogue on Friday, January 11th; as well as at a February 19th concert at the Hod
Yerushalayim Senior Citizens Home in Jerusalem.
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Van Leer Institute
to Host First Ever Reform Judaism Conference – Ynet
Dr. David Ellenson, President of HUC-JIR,
told Ynet that "the phenomenon of different strains of Judaism began in Germany and migrated over to the United
States and to Israel; part of the problem is that most of the population here [in Israel] is totally unaware about the
various branches because most people that came to Israel are from Sephardic background or from Eastern Europe."
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A Rabbi of His Time, With a Charisma
That Transcends It – The New York Times
This year's centennial of Heschel's
birth, commemorated by the new biography and a conference this month at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan, takes
place in a very different world. Surely no one today could write, as he did in his landmark 1955 book, "God in Search of
Man," that there is an "eclipse of religion in modern society." If anything, there is no escape from talk about faith. Nor
is the relationship between religious convictions and political activism as simple as it might have once seemed.
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Gal-On Hopes to have a Reform Rabbi on its List – The Jerusalem Post
Meretz will field a Reform rabbi on its
next Knesset slate if MK Zehava Gal-On is elected to head the party in its March 18 leadership race, Gal-On said Wednesday
in an interview with The Jerusalem Post.
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Progressing Slowly – The Jerusalem Post
The Movement for Progressive Judaism, as
it is known in Israel today, began in 1958. The movement was officially registered in Israel in 1971 and – in
1974 – HUC-JIR opened its Reform rabbinical program.
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'Religious' Pilot Brings Reform Movement to IAF – The Jerusalem Post
"Most people don't know Reform, and it's
been interesting to meet people who are very religious or not in the army and challenge their values and mine," 22-year-old
Lt. Amitai said. "Hopefully, they know it better after they know me."
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The Top 10 Stories
You Missed in 2007: American Jews Turn Away From Israel – Foreign Policy
"Feelings of attachment may well be changing,
as warmth gives way to indifference, and indifference may even give way to downright alienation," the study's coauthors,
Steven Cohen of HUC-JIR and Ari Y. Kelman of the University of California, Davis, wrote in their introduction.
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For a Quiet Religious Dialogue – Haaretz
Recent data collected by the Cherrick Center
for the Study of Zionism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem reveal that the Reform movement manages, more than the
other religious movements, to maintain the loyalty of its members. Some 75 percent of those who were raised as Reform
Jews continue to define themselves as such. The study shows that in the balance of those leaving and joining religious
movements, the Reform movement is growing both numerically and in terms of the Jewish commitment and identity of its
members.
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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.
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