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Dear Friends,

HUC-JIR News highlights an unprecedented time of both celebration and crisis.

We congratulate the 145 degree recipients of our Class of 2020 / 5780 who join our 4,000 active alumni, providing essential educational and pastoral support for communities throughout North America and continuing to put themselves on the front lines for racial justice and human rights and to bring healing to our world.

Our academic and operational teams are ensuring continuity and excellence during COVID-19: an online program for our first-year students, with a deferred 4th year of rabbinical and cantorial study in Israel; summer online elective courses for students in all programs; and a fully online fall semester, coupled with a prudent approach to campus accessibility based on local public health guidelines.

And inspired by our prophetic values that instruct us to pursue justice, we are demonstrating our belief that Black lives matter by working in partnership with our staff, students, faculty, and alumni to create Safe and Respectful Environments within our institution, starting with ourselves, and raising awareness about systemic inequity, injustice, and inhumanity within our society (see Let Us Not Be Silent Now, Alliance as a Force for Justice, and Let Freedom Ring Today: Commemorating Juneteenth).

Our sacred mission could not be more timely. Thank you for your vital support, which makes our work possible. Strengthened by each other, we will build a better world.

Andrew Rehfeld, Ph.D.
President

Catch up with President Rehfeld: Read Reform Seminary's New President Faces Pandemic Challenges in The New York Jewish Week/New Jersey Jewish News and HUC-JIR President Andrew Rehfeld on His First (Pandemic) Year in the Los Angeles Jewish Journal. Watch President Rehfeld's interview with Rabbi Mark Golub ’67, CEO of JBS-TV, on L’Chayim. Tune in on June 25, 2020 at 11:00 am ET for his World Jewish Congress Webtalk, and mark your calendar for July 17, 2020, for President Rehfeld's interview on the "Seekers of Meaning" podcast with Rabbi Richard F. Address '72, D.Min. '99.

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Mazal Tov to the 145 Graduates of our 145th Academic Year

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Consecration Address to the Class of 2020/5780 from President Rehfeld

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Graduation Address to the Class of 2020 from President Rehfeld

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New York Consecration of the Rabbinical and Cantorial Class of 2020

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Los Angeles Graduation of the
Class of 2020

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Los Angeles Consecration of the Rabbinical Class of 2020

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Cincinnati Consecration of the Rabbinical Class of 2020

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A Blessing from Our Faculty
to the Class of 2020

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HUC-JIR/New York Ordinands Sing “Eitz Chayim Hi”

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Rabbi Karen Fox ’78 Addresses the Ordinands of the Class of 2020

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Sasha Dominguez MAJE/MAJNM ’20 Delivers Student Reflection

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ONLINE LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

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“The Black-Jewish Alliance: Then and Now" - June 24 at 1:00 pm ET

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“What’s Jewish About Jewish Political Thought?” with President Rehfeld - June 30 at 12:00 pm ET

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Summer Series: “Race, Ritual, Resilience, and Renewal”

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“Racism in Progressive Communities: The Compelling Journey of a Biracial Jew” with Marra Gad

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Access Over 40 Recorded Sessions in Our Online Learning Archive

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Subscribe to Our College Commons Podcast: Passionate Perspectives from Judaism’s Leading Thinkers

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FOSTERING COMMUNITY

Students and alumni leading and learning online

Help Build a Better World:
Support ONE HUC Together

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Rabbi Richard N. Levy, z”l : A Yahrzeit of Remembrance and Teaching

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Join. Play. Win.:
Let Us Bring the Fun of Camp to You!

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Leading the Way Forward:
Students and Alumni in Action

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