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HUC-JIR President David Ellenson,
Ph.D., Board of Governors Member Rabbi David Posner, and other Alumni Listed as Newsweek's Top Influential
Rabbis in America
HUC-JIR Alumni were also featured on the
list of the top pulpit rabbis. This is the second annual list by Newsweek. |
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HUC-JIR Students Celebrate Passover with Communities in Russia,
Belarus, and Ukraine
HUC-JIR's students and graduates transmit
their enthusiasm, knowledge, and commitment to the Jews of the Former Soviet Union and offer hope for the Jewish
future. |
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Military Chaplaincy Rabbinical School Scholarship Offered at HUC-JIR
HUC-JIR has partnered with the Jewish
Community Centers Association and Jewish Welfare Board to offer the Irving S. Weinstein Military Rabbinical School
Scholarship. With a commitment to serve in the armed forces for three years after ordination, this scholarship will
fund up to full tuition for four years of rabbinical school. |
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HUC-JIR Students and Alumni Participate in Ride for Reform
This year's Ride for Reform, a
fundraising program for the Israeli Movement of Progressive Judaism, included HUC-JIR students from the three
stateside and Jerusalem campuses, as well as many HUC-JIR alumni. |
Spotlight on HUC-JIR's Programs and
Research Resources
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Join HUC-JIR Excavations at Tel Dan
Tel Dan is one of the most important
sites for the archaeological and historical recovery of ancient Israel. The city of Dan represented the northern border
of the biblical kingdom of Israel. Excavations will continue during the summer. Applications for the dig are
available on the HUC-JIR Tel Dan site. |
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GLBT Haggadah Tells Passover Story Anew
Developed in collaboration with
HUC-JIR's Institute for Judaism & Sexual Orientation (IJSO), the GLBT Haggadah is a completely traditional
Haggadah infused and integrated with the lens of GLBT and Feminist culture. |
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Four
Daughters: Wise, Angry, Simple and Unable to Enquire
Rabbi Dalia Marx, Lecturer in
Liturgy and Midrash at HUC-JIR, composed this piece for Passover. |
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Guidebook to Understanding Liberation
of the Jews - The New York Times
"The Haggadah is a book not just of
the Jewish People, but of ordinary Jewish people," Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman wrote. "It is a book we all own, handle,
store at home and spill wine upon." It is hard to imagine anyone spilling wine on "My People's Passover Haggadah,"
a fascinating two volume collection of text and commentaries for which Rabbi Hoffman, Professor of Liturgy at
HUC-JIR/New York, was co-editor. Another commentary, by Carole B. Balin, who also teaches at the Reform
movement's HUC-JIR/New York, draws on material from the wider array of modern Haggadot. |
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Archaeologists' Group Proposes Safekeeping of Middle East Artifacts - The Chronicle of Higher Education
"We were not trying to conduct negotiations
on a final settlement, but to set out items for future discussion in the peace talks," said David Ilan, director of the
Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology, at the HUC-JIR/Jerusalem. He was one of the Israeli participants. |
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New Haggadahs Bring Fresh Approaches to Celebration - The Jewish Journal
On Passover, teachers become students
and students take on the role of teachers; old and young teach each other. A fine resource for preparing for the seder
and for use at the table, "My People's Passover Haggadah: Traditional Texts, Modern Commentaries, Volumes 1 and 2,"
edited by Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, Professor of Liturgy at HUC-JIR/New York, and David Arnow, bring together a
community of scholars and teachers to reflect anew on the Haggadah. |
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Tibet Takes Its Place at the Seder Table - The Jewish Week
HUC-JIR rabbinical student Daniel
Bogard has developed a liturgy about Tibet to be read at the seder. Readings and symbols of other issues will also
find their place at some seders. A "Passover Ritual for the Midwives" was written by HUC-JIR rabbinical student Leah
Rachel Berkowitz to honor the forgotten heroines of the Hebrews in ancient Egypt. |
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Upcoming Events at HUC-JIR
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Dr.
Reuven Firestone to Teach at Geiger College; Lecture at Potsdam University and Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Dr. Reuven Firestone, Professor of
Medieval Judaism and Islam at HUC-JIR, will teach a class on "Judaism and Islam: Religious Interconnections and
Interwoven Histories" to Geiger College's rabbinical students. He will also give lectures at Potsdam University: "The
concept of Oral Torah in Judaism and the concept of Prophetical Tradition in Islam. A comparison." and at
the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, "A synthetic methodology of post-modern scriptural engagement: combining vectors
of religion and secularism in reading Abraham in the Qur'an and the Bible." |
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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
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