1
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resident
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s
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essage
3
HUC-JIR
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s
A
dvocate
:
A
ndrew
R. B
erger
,
C
hair of
HUC-JIR B
oard of
G
overnors
5
L
earning to
L
ead
in
a
T
ime of
W
ar
The Inauguration of
Rabbi Aaron D. Panken, Ph.D.
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I
n
C
elebration
Rabbi Rick Jacobs
President
Union for Reform Judaism
Rabbi Richard A. Block
President
Central Conference of American Rabbis
Martin Cohen
Chairman
Presidential Search Committee, HUC-JIR
Irwin Engelman
Chairman (2010-2014)
Board of Governors, HUC-JIR
11
I
nauguration
A
ddress
Rabbi Aaron D. Panken, Ph.D.
President
22
B
enediction
Rabbi Norman J. Cohen, Ph.D.
Acting President (2000-2001)
Provost Emeritus
Professor Emeritus of Midrash
23
I
nauguration
T
oast
Mona B. Kerstine
Chair, Inauguration
Academic Symposium:
“
Imagining the Jewish Future”
24
B
etween
W
ashington and
J
erusalem
:
T
he
E
volution of
U.S.
-
I
srael
R
elations
,
from
T
ruman
to
O
bama
Warren Bass, Ph.D.
Senior Editor,
The Wall Street Journal
25
L
eadership
Shaul Kelner, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Sociology and Jewish
Studies, Vanderbilt University
29
W
orship
Rabbi Cantor Angela Warnick Buchdahl
Senior Rabbi, Central Synagogue, New York, NY
32
C
ollaboration
:
A
re
W
e
B
uilt for
I
t
?
Rabbi B. Elka Abrahamson
President, The Wexner Foundation
36
J
ewish
L
ife
I
s
in the
B
alance
Rabbi Jan D. Katzew, Ph.D.
Director of Service Learning
HUC-JIR/Cincinnati
41
S
ocial
R
esponsibility
Alyssa Gray, Ph.D.
Emily S. and Bernard H. Mehlman Chair in
Rabbinics and Associate Professor of Codes
and Responsa Literature, HUC-JIR/New York
45
C
elebrating
P
artnership
:
L
eaders of
the
R
eform
M
ovement
G
ather
at
the
J
oint
HUC-JIR, URJ,
and
CCAR
B
oard
M
eeting
T
he
C
hronicle
F
all
2014
S
pecial
I
nauguration
I
ssue