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HUC-JIR Announces 2008 Ordination, Investiture, Graduate, and Honorary
Degree Recipients
Rabbi David Ellenson, Ph.D.,
President of the HUC-JIR announced the class of 2008, who will be ordained, invested, and graduated this spring
in Cincinnati, Los Angeles, and New York. |
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National Invitation for HUC-JIR Ordination, Investiture, and
Graduation Ceremonies in Cincinnati, Los Angeles, and New York, are Available On-line
View event details for the 2008
graduation, ordination, and investiture ceremonies and services. |
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HUC-JIR Student Life Videos
View HUC-JIR students working for social
justice and leading Jewish revival in the Former Soviet Union; hear their stories about preparing for an extraordinary
life at HUC-JIR. |
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Steve Cohen on 'Seeking a Third Way to Respond to the Challenge of
Intermarriage'
Steven M. Cohen, Research
Professor of Jewish Social Policy at HUC-JIR, delivered this address at the CCAR convention in Cincinnati. |
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J.J. Goldberg, Editorial Director of The Forward,
Speaks to HUC-JIR/NY Students on Jewish Politics: What Difference Does It Make?
Goldberg joined HUC-JIR/NY
students, faculty, and staff, for a lecture and discussion on Jewish politics on March 31, 2008. He discussed the
upcoming presidential election, U.S. foreign policy, and the influence of Jewish organizations. |
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Upcoming Events at HUC-JIR
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Rabbi David Ellenson, Ph.D., to Speak at Temple
Israel of New Rochelle April 11, 2008
Rabbi Ellenson, President of HUC-JIR,
will speak at 8:00 p.m. at Temple Israel in New Rochelle, NY, which is celebrating its Centennial this year. |
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Cinema Judaica: The Epic Cycle (1947-1971) on View at
HUC-JIR/NY Museum; Opening Reception and Lecture April 9, 2008
Hollywood films in the three decades
after World War II portrayed 4,000 years of Jewish historical identity and, in some of the biggest box office hits of
all times, transformed the image of the Jew from embattled to triumphant. Ken Sutak, author, collector, and guest
curator of Cinema Judaica, will speak at 6:30 p.m., following a 5:30 p.m. reception. |
Spotlight on HUC-JIR's Programs and
Research Resources
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Cinema Judaica at HUC-JIR/NY Museum is Manhattan "City Pick" in Time Out New York
Posters and advertisements for
films such as Ben-Hur, Fiddler on the Roof, Exodus and Samson and Delilah, illustrate the increasingly triumphant
image of the Chosen People in post-World War II Hollywood. |
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Reform College Students Attend Shabbaton at Kibbutz
A group of over 20 Reform college
students studying in Israel, accompanied by HUC-JIR Kesher-in- Israel interns, attended a Shabbaton at Kibbutz Yahel,
one of the first Reform Kibbutzim in Israel. |
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Gerald Bubis, HUC-JIR Professor Emeritus
and Founding Director of SJCS, Publishes Guidebook for Non-Profit Organizational Management
Gerald Bubis, Founder and Professor
Emeritus of the School of Jewish Communal Service, has published The Director Had a Heart Attack, and the President
Resigned, a guide for professionals in the non-profit sector. |
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Dr. Steven Windmueller on 'The Jewish Communities of the Western United States'
Twenty-five percent of all American Jews
live in the Western United States, representing a distinctive and growing voice within Jewish life. Participation and
identity in these communities show different features from the rest of American Jewry, in part reflecting the social
mores of the West. A lack of longstanding communal histories and established behaviors has also made it easier for
Western Jewry to develop special creative aspects. |
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Imam
Seeks 'Real Connections' – The Jewish Week
Recalling a recent two-day program of
"dialogue, religious community, and interfaith learning" between students from HUC-JIR and the 96th Street Mosque, HUC-JIR
Vice President Rabbi Aaron Panken said, "It was a wonderful opportunity for students from both sides to learn from each
other and to realize the many similarities in prayer and textual teachings between Judaism and Islam." Rabbi Panken said
Imam Ali comes across as "a warm and genuine religious leader who is doing a lot to create opportunities for friendly
and thoughtful dialogue between Muslims and Jews." |
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Reform Rabbis Renew Debate on Officiating at Intermarriages – JTA
The task force on intermarriage has met
a handful of times in the past year, according to its chair, Rabbi Charles Kroloff, Vice President for Special Projects
at HUC-JIR. "If we don't respond, American Jewish life will go on without us and we will be left behind," says Rabbi
Jerome Davidson, a member of the task force. |
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Revealing God's Female
Voice – Haaretz
Last week "The Torah: A Women's Commentary"
was launched in Israel and in the near future it will be translated into Hebrew. |
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New Book Blasts Gender Inequity, Seeks Change in Organizations – JTA
"I've done studies of rabbis, of
federations, of JCC professionals, and wherever we look, men occupy more prestigious and better-compensated positions,"
says sociologist Steven M. Cohen, whose studies are cited in the new book. "What's bad and wrong for America is bad and
wrong for American Jewry," says Cohen, a Professor at HUC-JIR. |
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CCAR Opened Sunday in Cincinnati – The Enquirer
"Whenever it does (return to Cincinnati)
there is a certain special quality to it because of the great history in Cincinnati," said Gary Zola, Executive Director
of HUC-JIR's Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives. |
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What Women Bring to the Rabbinate – The Cleveland Jewish News
More than 30 years after the first female
rabbi was ordained, how have women changed the rabbinate and Judaism? HUC-JIR, the Reform movement's rabbinic
training college, allowed Preisand to join the men studying for the rabbinate. As Priesand's devotion and spirituality
became clear, she was ordained with her class in 1972. |
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Retired Rabbis in Spotlight – Chicago Jewish
News (PDF)
The focus will be on retired rabbis and
of rabbis of the future at a special event HUC-JIR is hosting in Evanston on Thursday, April 3. It will honor 14
retired Reform rabbis from synagogues in the Chicago area. |
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Smash
the Glass Ceiling in the Communal World – The New Jersey Jewish News
In addition, at least six major
organizations and institutions have elected women as board presidents for the first time, including the HUC-JIR.
Female philanthropists and entrepreneurs are launching new organizations. More women are featured on panels and
publications as intellectuals, academics, and writers. |
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Federation's
Stanley Gold Slashes Board Size, Reorganizes – The Jewish Journal
"Frankly, this is a necessity,"
said Steven Windmueller, dean of the Los Angeles campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and an
expert on Jewish communal service. "This type of thing, the restructuring of the board for accountability purposes
and decision making, is absolutely essential to the future of The Federation." |
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As
Jewish Communities Unite, Disconnects Persist – The Jewish Journal
In early 2005, Gerald Bubis and
Steven Windmueller, respectively Founding Director of the School of Jewish Communal Service at HUC-JIR/LA, and its
Dean, came out with a 165-page paperback titled "From Predictability to Chaos? How Jewish Leaders Reinvented Their
National Community System." |
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What
We Talk About When We Talk About God – The Forward
Belief in God is, for many people,
mostly irrelevant to living a religious life or being a "mentsh," as Eugene Borowitz puts it in his new book, "A
Touch of the Sacred: A Theologian's Informal Guide to Jewish Belief." Borowitz, a distinguished professor at the HUC-JIR,
sees an inherent problem with this and tries to rectify it in his book. |
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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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