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Rabbi David Ellenson Joined Albany-Area Rabbis to Honor Memories of
Rabbis Isaac Mayer and Stephen Wise
HUC-JIR alumni joined together in
celebrating the annual Union Shabbat Service on Friday, March 28th, honoring Rabbis Isaac Mayer Wise and Stephen
Wise, during the Shabbat of their yahrzeits. Rabbi David Ellenson, Ph.D., President of the HUC-JIR, was the
featured speaker. |
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Rabbi Alfred
Gottschalk, Ph.D., Chancellor Emeritus of HUC-JIR, Honored at CCAR Conference
Dr. Gottschalk was honored at the
CCAR Conference Service marking the 36th anniversary of the ordination of Rabbi Sally Priesand, the first female
rabbi ordained. He was also recognized at the HUC-JIR alumni luncheon at which he spoke and delivered the Invocation.
The events took place in Cincinnati where the 119th conference of the CCAR was held. |
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Rabbi
Herbert A. Friedman Dies at 89
Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman, who as
chief executive of the United Jewish Appeal raised more than $3 billion to support the fledgling state of Israel
and led efforts to close the educational gap there between European Jews and those from other lands, died Monday at
his home in Manhattan. He was 89. After graduating from Yale in 1938, he studied at Hebrew Union College in New York
and was ordained in 1943. |
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HUC-JIR/Jerusalem Outreach Programs at Hebrew University
Professor David Mendelssohn spoke to
Hebrew University students on the "Jewishness of Israelis" on April 10, 2008. Lox and Learn, an on-going series
of HUC-JIR recruitment programs at Hebrew University, is led by Rabbi David Wilfond, Regional Director of Outreach
and Admissions at HUC-JIR/Jerusalem. |
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Dr. David Kaufman Nominated as Outstanding Teacher and Mentor by
USC
The University of Southern California
Parents Association has announced that Dr. David Kaufman, Associate Professor of Contemporary American Jewish Studies
at HUC-JIR/LA, has been nominated for consideration of the Association's Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring Award. The
winners, along with all nominees, will be recognized at a ceremony in the fall. |
Spotlight on HUC-JIR's Programs and
Research Resources
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Department of Youth Programs to Host High School Leadership Conference
HUC-JIR's Department of Youth Programs
will host its annual High School Leadership Conference April 11-13. Thirty-two 10th-12th grade students from across
North America will spend the weekend on HUC-JIR's Cincinnati campus, learning from faculty and rabbinical students,
meeting one another and exploring the theme Leadership: When to Lead? When to Follow? |
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Zohar Volume from HUC-JIR/NY's Klau Library
Featured in New York Times Magazine
A Zohar volume published in Venice
in 1663 illustrates Daphne Merkin's article, "In Search of the Skeptical, Hopeful, Mystical Jew that Could Be Me," in
the New York Times Magazine, Sunday, April 13. The photo appears on page 54. Dr. Philip Miller assisted the photo
editor and photographer from the New York Times with a selection of Kabbalistic volumes from the rare book collection
of the Klau Library at HUC-JIR/NY. |
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Spare-Rib
Scholars Unearth Scripture Bias – London Times
The Torah: A Women's
Commentary re-evaluates the Torah's feminine side and offers the first comprehensive analysis of text from a
female point of view. "With this commentary we will continue as sisters to empower the women - and men - who come
after us for generations to come," said its chief editor, Tamara Eskenazi, Professor of Bible studies at HUC-JIR. |
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US Archaeologists Bridge Israeli-Arab Gap – Jerusalem Post
Unlikely peacemakers are proposing
that if Israelis and Palestinians can agree on how to preserve and protect a common archaeological past, perhaps they
can agree on a common future. David Ilan, Director of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archeology at HUC-JIR/Jerusalem,
is on a team of scientists from the two sides and the United States – with the unofficial but full knowledge of
their governments – who has invested three intensive years of negotiations and research. |
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Keeping
Faith – Hartford Courant
"The issue of Jewish continuity and
survival is unlike that experienced by other religious groups," said Steven Cohen, Research Professor of Jewish Social
Policy at HUC-JIR/NY and a leading expert on American Jewish demography. |
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Chasing the
Passover Bunny – The Forward
David Gilner, director of libraries at
HUC-JIR, agreed that the rabbits symbolize the mnemonic, but he said that some examples do not conform to this model,
like a 15th-century Bible where a chase scene casts God as the hound and the hare as Egypt. |
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Upcoming Events at HUC-JIR
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Department of Outreach Education to Feature Dr. Mark Kligman at Lunchtime
Scholar Series, April 30, 2008
Dr. Kligman, Professor of Jewish Musicology
at HUC-JIR/NY, will lead a discussion entitled "Introduction to Sephardi/Mizrachi Music." This multi-media presentation
will show the diversity and uniqueness of Sephardi and Mizrachi communities through liturgical and non-liturgical
music. |
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HUC-JIR SSM Faculty and
Alumni to Perform G.F. Handel's Israel In Egypt Sunday, May 4, 2008 at 3:00 p.m. at Temple Israel of New
Rochelle, NY
The Westchester Chorale's performance of
"the greatest choral epic in the repertory" includes solos by Cantor Benjie-Ellen Schiller, Cantor Morris Glazman, tenor,
and Cantor Erik Contzius, bass-baritone. |
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Israel at 60: Lecture at HUC-JIR/LA by Yaffa Weisman, May 14, 2008
The Frances-Henry Library at HUC-JIR/LA
will be hosting a special meeting of the Association of Jewish Libraries of Southern California (AJLSC) in honor of
Israel's 60th Independence Day Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. Professor Yaffa Weisman, Library Director,
HUC-JIR/LA, will lecture on: Israel at 60 - Old Roots, New Culture, discussing the changing Israeli cultural
landscape as reflected in contemporary Israeli literature, poetry and theatre. |
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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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