December 1998
- Please use our new form to request
updates or additions to the on-line directory
- Guidelines for contributing to the HUC-JIR website have been updated
- Addresses by Professors Einbinder, Gottschalk, and Greengus have been
added to the Electronic Publications page
- The New York Kollel Winter/Spring Program
Guide is now on line
- Beit Midrash/A Liberal Yeshivah announces
a new 2-week summer program
in Jerusalem
- Read the reviews distributed
in December at "Meet the Author" with Eugene Borowitz
- HUC-JIR co-sponsors a
Winter Spirituality and Study Retreat
- The HUC-JIR On-Line Directory now provides
e-mail addresses, office phone numbers, and website links for faculty,
staff, students, and departmental offices
November 1998
- The new Electronic Publications page
contains addresses, sermons, papers, and research précis by
members of the HUC-JIR faculty and guest scholars of the College-Institute
- The New York Kollel "Meet the Author" series, hosted by Eugene Borowitz,
- offers reviews of recently published books
- announces its featured books for December and January
- HUC Press annouces the publication of To
Worship God Properly by Ruth Langer
- Newly-established honorary
doctorates to be awarded to distinguished cantorial alumni
October 1998
- Adult Jewish Learning & Living has set dates for its forthcoming programs
- The new HUC-JIR Misson Statement
has been posted to the website
- The School of Sacred Music
50th Anniversary
Conference will be held Nov. 22-23
- See what's On View in HUC-JIR's museums in 1998-1999
- Rosh Hashana Greetings from Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman, President
- The HUC-JIR Calendar of Events has been
updated through for events through February 1999
- College-Institute holds faculty retreat
- Class of 98 Placements
September 1998
- New York Kollel has posted its
Fall 1998 program
- See Fall 1998
course offerings for the Jerusalem Learning Center
- See Fall 1998
course offerings & class schedules for the Los Angeles Learning Center
- 200th Reform mohel certified -- Jewish ritual practitioners celebrate milestone
- Dr. David Gilner elected new president of the The Association of Jewish Libraries
- In Memoriam, Dr. Norman B. Mirsky
- Joyce Rosenzweig appointed Artist-in-Residence at the New York School
- Three new administrative appointments
are announced
- Cantor Ellen Dreskin, Associate Dean
- Rabbi Margaret J. Meyer, Acting Director of Alumni Affairs
- Dr. Steven Windmueller, Acting Director of Adult Jewish Living and Learning
- See Fall 1998
course offerings & class schedules for the Cincinnati Learning Center
August 1998
- Fall 1998 course syllabi are now posted where available
- New York Kollel has posted its
Elul Mini-Semester program
and
preliminary announcement of its
Discover Judaism class
July 1998
- See Fall 1998
course offerings & class schedules for the New York Learning Center
- Academy Award Winning Composer/Songwriter Alan Menken
honored at the Jubilee Celebration of School of Sacred Music
- Congratulations to the HUC-JIR Graduating Class of 1998
- Dr. Bernard Heller Prize awarded to Counte Folke Bernadotte, posthumously
- Roger E. Joseph Prize awarded to
Center For Victims of Torture
and Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture
- Read Reflections from Founders Day by three
HUC-JIR faculty members
- Rabbi Aaron Panken Appointed Dean of New York School
- Elliot B. Karp Appointed Vice-President for Development
June 1998
- New Faculty Appointments Announced
- New deans for New York and Jerusalem Campuses join HUC-JIR administration
- Beit Midrash/A Libral Yeshivah has launched its
initial website, including core classes, faculty bios, and a response form
- Faculty Research Summaries
are now available on the website
- Three faculty appointments have been announced
May 1998
- Intermarriage Study
- Featured Faculty Research
- Hebrew Union College Press has established a
website, with its complete catalog on-line
- New York Kollel invites you study
all night for
Tikkun Leil Shavuot
- Archbishop John Cardinal O'Connor awarded honorary doctorate by HUC-JIR
- 1998 Honorary Degrees and
Joseph Prizes announced
April 1998
- New York Kollel has posted its
June Insitute program
- The Third Scholars
Conference on American Jewish History has been announced
by American Jewish Archives
- Entries in the Faculty directory have been updated
to include titles of lectures given to scholarly and lay audiences
March 1998
- Your Year in Israel, the Handbook for the
Year in Israel Program, is now on line
- Dr. Gary P. Zola to Succeed Jacob Rader Marcus
as Executive Director of the American Jewish Archives
- Read about the history of the School of Music and the The
Birnbaum Collection of Jewish Music
- HUC-JIR Celebrates the Jubilee Anniversary
of the School of Sacred Music
January 1998
- New York Kollel has posted its
program for Spring, 1998
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