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Rabbi David Ellenson, Ph.D., to Speak at Israel President Shimon Peres's
First Annual Presidential Conference, Facing Tomorrow
Rabbi Ellenson, HUC-JIR President, will speak
on the relevancy of the Jewish legacy to the world's future on a panel on Wednesday morning, May 14th. President Peres said,
"In all my years, I have been party to many dreams. The ones that became reality had one thing in common: they were all
blessed with the proper mix of imagination, will, and compassion. I am quite sure that all three of these very human
qualities will be abundantly evident at this conference, and will afford it the intellectual fertility, curiosity,
and enthusiasm any meaningful consideration of tomorrow requires." |
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HUC-JIR/NY Students to Graduate April 30th at Congregation Emanu-El
of the City of New York; Anita Diamant to Speak
Author Anita Diamant will speak at
the graduation ceremonies, where she and Civic Activist Sigmund Balka, Past URJ Chair Robert M. Heller, and Sociology
Professor Dr. Nechama Tec will be awarded honorary Doctorates of Humane Letters. HUC-JIR alumni will be awarded
honorary Doctorates of Divinity, Music, Jewish Religious Education, and Jewish Communal Service, as well as the
Founders' Medallion, in recognition of their 25 years of distinguished professional service. The Doctor of Ministry
degree will be presented to ordained clergy of diverse faiths and Masters Degrees will be presented to students in
the Rabbinical School, School of Sacred Music, New York School of Education, and the School of Graduate Studies. |
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Team Unveils Mideast Archaeology Peace Plan (PDF)
The first challenge was to account for
"tens of thousands of artifacts" and nearly 6,000 sites, says David Ilan, one of the Israeli participants who
directs the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology at HUC-JIR/Jerusalem. |
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Holocaust Remembrance Program at HUC-JIR/NY Features Novelist Thane
Rosenbaum and Klezmer Violinist Alicia Svigals; Co-Sponsored by Workmen's Circle and 3GNY
The museum at HUC-JIR/NY will be open
for the event, which will also include a memorial candle lighting ceremony for survivors and their descendants. |
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Rabbi Jeremy Schneider to Participate in "Religion and Society:
A Dialogue" in Egypt and Syria
Rabbi Schneider, L '06, was
accepted to participate in the 11-day study tour to Egypt and Syria focused on learning and understanding Islam. |
Spotlight on HUC-JIR's Programs and
Research Resources
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Upcoming Events at HUC-JIR
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Sable Joins HUC-JIR as Director of Development – Cleveland Jewish News
Dayton, Ohio, native Sheri Sable has
been named Director of Development, Midwest Region, at HUC-JIR. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Sable
studied Arabic, Islamic law, modern Jewish intellectual history, and philosophy at Hebrew University. |
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Jewish Voters Still Have Questions About Obama - US News and World Report
In an analysis for the Jerusalem Center
for Public Affairs at HUC-JIR, Steven Windmueller said that four states with significant Jewish populations account for
128 of 270 electoral votes needed to capture the White House: California, New York, Florida, and New Jersey, with
Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Ohio in the second tier. |
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Chicago Theological Seminary Establishes Jewish Studies Chair - Sun Herald
The Rabbi Herman E. Schaalman Chair in
Jewish Studies is America's first endowed professorship in Jewish studies at a freestanding Protestant seminary. It honors
the co-founder of the school's Center for Jewish-Christian Studies. Rabbi Schaalman, C '41, is a past president of the
Central Conference of American Rabbis. |
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Women Talking Torah - Lilith Magazine
The Torah – A Women's Commentary, edited
by HUC-JIR Professors Tamara Cohn Eskenazi and Andrea Weiss, marks a watershed in Jewish history. It is a huge
undertaking, magnificently executed and written solely by women, one which offers new information and insights on every
page. This new volume, leather-bound and physically gorgeous, proudly announces itself as a work by women. |
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New Torah Commentary Gives Miriam Her Due - The Star Ledger
The story of the Exodus from Egypt,
recounted each year at Passover, lingers on the many miracles God conducted on the Israelites' behalf. But Tamara
Cohn Eskenazi, a Bible professor at HUC-JIR and the editor of the just-released "The Torah: A Women's Commentary,"
always marvels at Miriam – the young girl who watched over the Nile-borne basket bearing the baby Moses; the woman who
rejoiced with a hand-drum at the parting of the Red Sea; the prophet honored, according to Jewish tradition, with
an extraordinary well that followed the Israelites through the desert. |
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Women
Having Greater Role in Traditional Passover Seders - The Press-Enterprise
Rabbi Suzanne Singer, L '03 and
Coordinator of Leadership Initiatives at HUC-JIR/LA, explained at the dinner table that the idea of adding an orange
dates from the 1980s. |
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Rabbi's Fresh Look at Passover - The East Hampton Star
Instead of dealing solely with the
Passover story in the Haggadah, told year after year at the Seder meal - of the Israelites' exodus from Egypt and
liberation from slavery - Biblical scholar Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman, who served as HUC-JIR President (1996 - 2000),
offered a sort of deconstruction of it, and even some who have been making the Seder for their entire lives
seemed surprised. |
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Hillel Aims for
Pluralistic, Traditional Balance at Seder - Columbia Spectator
"It's great that we have so many
orthodox Jews at Columbia and Barnard, but there are a lot of reform Jews here, too, who don't feel like they have a
voice," said Karen Perolman, a third-year rabbinical student at HUC-JIR. |
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Amy
Hertz Named Assistant Rabbi at Rodef Shalom - The Jewish Chronicle of Pittsburgh
Originally from Houston,
Amy Hertz will be ordained by HUC-JIR on May 31. She has worked with elementary age children at Greene Family Camp in
Texasand served for two years in HUC-JIR's Department of Youth Programs where she helped to design, create and coordinate
over 15 retreats for high school and college-age students. |
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Rabbi Appointed to
New Position at Emory
Victoria Armour-Hileman, an
award-winning scholar and soon-to-be-ordained rabbi, has been appointed associate dean of religious life and
chaplain at Emory University. Her appointment to the newly established position was announced by the Rev. Susan
Henry-Crowe, dean of the chapel and religious life at Emory. |
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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
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