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HUC-JIR/LA Founder's Day Observed; Dr. Michael Zeldin Speaks
Dr. Zeldin, Professor of Jewish
Education and Director of the Rhea Hirsch School of Education, called for bold experimentation and innovation in
Jewish Education in the Founders Day Address he delivered in Los Angeles on February 26. He encouraged educators,
rabbis, and lay champions of Jewish education to think in new ways about the purpose and content of Jewish
education. |
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FSU
Rabbis Gather In Jerusalem for Annual Seminar
The six members of the Rabbinic
Council of the former Soviet Union gathered earlier this month in Jerusalem for their third annual conference
for professional, spiritual and personal renewal. HUC-JIR conducted the conference. According to Rabbi Alona
Lisitsa, director of HUC-JIR's FSU Project, the annual conference allows the participants to augment their rabbinic
and organizational skills while providing them time for professional reflection far from their daily responsibilities.
The rabbis attended study sessions led by scholars from the HUC-JIR staff including Rabbi Michael Marmur, Dean
of HUC-JIR/Jerusalem, and Rabbi Yehoyada Amir, Rabbi David Levine, Rabbi Naamah Kelman, and Rabbi David Wilfond. |
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Dr.
Alfred Gottschalk Delivered Rabbi Nathan A. Perilman Memorial Sermon-Lecture at Temple Emanu-El in NY
Dr. Gottschalk, Chancellor Emeritus
of HUC-JIR, delivered the Rabbi Nathan A. Perilman lecture at Emanu-El on February 23, 2008. He spoke on "Prophetic
Thinking in a Non-Prophetic Society," and dealt with the legacy of Elijah, Prophet of God. |
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Rabbi Ruth Alpers Certified as Full CPE Supervisor
The National Certification Commission
of the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education has just certified Rabbi Ruth Alpers as a full CPE Supervisor.
Rabbi Alpers, Jay Stein Director of Human Relations at HUC-JIR/Cincinnati, is one of only three Reform Rabbis to have
achieved this highest level of ACPE certification. |
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Kalsman Institute on Judaism and Health's "Judaism, Health,
and Healing for Physicians" Launched in Phoenix
The Kalsman Institute on Judaism and
Health and the Deutsch Family Shalom Center of Temple Chai in Phoenix kicked off the latest educational initiative
designed to use Jewish study as a source of renewal to help physicians integrate clinical and spiritual life.
Sixteen physicians from around the country attended the Shabbat retreat. |
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Upcoming Events at HUC-JIR
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The Torah: A Women's Commentary Editor, Contributors, Featured at Panel Thursday, March 6, 2008 at Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York
Rabbi Jacqueline Koch Ellenson, Executive Director of the Women's Rabbinic Network, will moderate a program that includes a presentation by Dr. Andrea L. Weiss, Assistant Professor of Bible, HUC-JIR and co-editor of The Torah: A Women's Commentary, and discussion with Commentary contributors and HUC-JIR Professors Dr. Carole B. Balin, Professor of Jewish History, Dr. Alyssa Gray, Associate Professor of Codes and Responsa Literature, and Dr. Wendy Zierler, Associate Professor of Modern Jewish Literature and Feminist Studies. These scholars will explore the Commentary's meaning and significance from the perspectives of Bible scholarship, intellectual history, literature, and rabbinic interpretation. |
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Rochelle Rubinstein: Marginalia to Open at HUC-JIR/NY March 11, 2008
Marginalia, an installation of printed, painted, and carved wood panels by Rochelle Rubinstein with collaborative book works by Nessa Rapoport and Rochelle Rubinstein, will open at the HUC-JIR/NY Museum March 11th, with a reception and program from 5:30-7:30 p.m. |
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Dr. Rick Sarason Leads On-line Session March 3rd-28th; Available for HUC-JIR Alumni
The Joint Commission for Sustaining Rabbinic Education's 10 Great Texts course "The God Who Weeps: Divine Pathos as a Model for Human Empathy?" with Dr. Rick Sarason is open to all HUC-JIR alumni. Dr. Sarason is Professor of Rabbinic Literature and Thought and the Associate Editor of the Hebrew Union College Annual. |
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Upcoming HUC-JIR Faculty Lectures
Dr.
Eugene Borowitz will speak at Westchester Reform Temple in Scarsdale, New York, March 2, 2008.
Rabbi
Michael J. Cook will speak at Congregation Beth Shalom in Brandon, Florida, February 29 and March 1, 2008.
Dr.
Steven M. Cohen will speak at the University Club at University of California-Davis, March 3, 2008.
Rabbi Michael Marmur will speak at Westchester Reform Temple in Scarsdale, New York, March 7, 8, and 9, 2008.
Dr. Stanley Nash will speak at Hunter College W217 West Building, New York, New York, March 7, 2008 |
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HUC-JIR Funds
Muslim Scholar's Rescue – The Jewish Journal
Ismail Bardhi had arrived as a refugee
through HUC-JIR's Scholar Rescue Fund. The former Dean of the faculty of Islamic Studies in Skopje, Macedonia, Bardhi
was beaten and stripped of his title because he refused to cede to the vision of Kosovar nationalists, who in rising to
power were marginalizing secular Muslims and "Islamic humanists" like Bardhi. "In 1939 and 1940, Hebrew Union College
had a program to rescue a number of scholars from Europe," said Rabbi David Ellenson, president of HUC-JIR. "One of these
men was Abraham Joshua Heschel. I thought of that when I received [the] initial request to find a place for Professor
Bardhi. I recalled how HUC had done this for Jewish scholars who were in this kind of situation 50 years ago and felt
there really was a Jewish imperative to provide refuge in this case as well." |
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Changing Their Tune – The Jewish Week
Cantor Bruce Ruben, Director of the
School of Sacred Music at HUC-JIR, says as the role of cantor has changed – incorporating more counseling, adult
education and really being co-clergy with the rabbi – more people are coming to the school with varied pasts, from
former social workers and finance people to opera singers and others with musical experience. |
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Is This a Job
for a Nice Jewish Boy or Girl? You Bet It Is! – The Jewish Journal
Dr. Michael Zeldin writes, "Maybe
in a few years we will be able to look back and say that we changed the landscape of Jewish life by making sure that
each Jewish child and each adult Jewish learner encountered passionate, well-prepared Jewish educators, and each
institution was led by visionary leaders who brought with them the wealth of talents and the gifts they acquired as
they prepared for their careers. But to be able to look back this way, we have to work today to bring larger numbers of
young people into the profession of Jewish education and encourage them to seek out the very best professional
preparation possible." |
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L.A.'s Latino Mayor Welcomed as
One of the Tribe – The Forward
"In Los Angeles, to win elections, one
has to build coalition structures," said Steven Windmueller, Dean of HUC-JIR/LA, campus, and an expert on Jewish
politics. "What Antonio did was take the same model, except it was now Latinos and Jews, and figure out a way in which
they galvanized around his campaign." |
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Adoptive Jewish Families Head
Back to China – The Forward
Rabbi Elena Stein, C '97, is engaging
in research to plan a trip back to China with her daughter Dahlia. Touring with other adoptive families would require
finding free time to partake in Jewish activities, while traveling with a Jewish heritage tour would deprive Stein and
her daughter of experiencing China with families like their own. "I would like for it to be a Chinese-Jewish tour
because I would like for her to see her identities as integrated and not separated." she said. |
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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