A collection of addresses, sermons, papers, articles, and research papers by members of the HUC-JIR faculty, administration, and guest scholars of the College-Institute.

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Aaron, Dr. David
Adler, Dr. Rachel
Aron, Dr. Isa
Barth, Rabbi Lewis
Biran, Dr. Avraham
Borowitz, Dr. Eugene
Bregman, Dr. Marc
Bullock, Dr. C. Hassell
Cesarani, Professor David
Cohen, Dr. Jonathan
Cohen, Dr. Martin A.
Cohen, Dr. Norman J.
Cook, Dr. Michael J.
Cutter, Dr. William
Dan, Professor Joseph
Diamant, Anita
Dorff Ph.D., Rabbi Elliot
Einbinder, Dr. Susan
Ellenson Ph.D., Rabbi David
Eskenazi, Dr. Tamara Cohn
Feinberg, Dr. Shaul R.
Firestone, Dr. Reuven
Fox, Dr. Nili S.
Gomes D.D., The Rev. Peter John
Gottschalk, Dr. Alfred
Greengus, Dr. Samuel
Harris, Dr. David A.
Hoffman, Dr. Lawrence A.
Holbrooke, Ambassador Richard
Hyman, Dr. Paula E.

Kligman, Dr. Mark
Keenan, Father Christopher
Kushner, Rabbi Lawrence S.
Lee, Professor Sara S.
Lehman, Burton
Marmur, Rabbi Michael
McCoy, Professor Lowell G.
Meyer, Dr. Michael A.
Nash, Dr. Stanley
Nigro, Daniel A.
Panken Ph.D., Rabbi Aaron
Pawlikowski O.S.M. Ph.D., (Rev.) John T.
Pearl, Dr. Judea
Phillips, Dr. Bruce A.
Pisano, Jane G.
Ragins, Rabbi Sanford
Reisman Ph.D., Bernard
Saperstein, Rabbi David
Sarason, Dr. Richard S.
Schorsch Ph.D., Rabbi Ismar
Somers, Jermone H.
Talve, Rabbi Susan A.
Umansky, Ellen M.
Vorspan, Albert
Weisberg, Dr. David B.
Weisberg, Ruth
Windmueller, Dr. Steven F.
Zavidov, Rabbi Ada
Zierler, Dr. Wendy I.
Zimmerman, Rabbi Sheldon

Additional electronic publications: Chronicle magazine and Kesher

HUC-JIR and Faculty Publications -- Listings in Chronicle magazine:
Chronicle Issue 63 (2004) - available in PDF format
Chronicle Issue 62 (2003) - available in PDF format
Chronicle Issue 61 (2003) - available in PDF format
Chronicle Issue 60 (2002)
Chronicle Issue 59 (2001) - available in PDF format
Chronicle Issue 57 (1999)

HUC-JIR Video and Audio Streaming

HUC-JIR and Faculty Publications

Dr. David H. Aaron
Professor of Bible, HUC-JIR/Cincinnati
›	Excerpt from Biblical Ambiguities: Metaphor, Semantics, and Divine Imagery (Brill Academic Publishers, 2001), Chronicle Issue 61 (2003) - available in PDF format

Dr. Rachel Adler
Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought and Feminist Studies, HUC-JIR/LA
Assistant Professor of Religion, USC
›	A Yom Kippur ABC

Dr. Isa Aron
Professor of Jewish Education, HUC-JIR/Los Angeles
›	Excerpt from The Self-Renewing Congregation: Organizational Strategies for Revitalizing Congregational Life (Jewish Lights Publishing, 2002), Chronicle Issue 61 (2003) - available in PDF format

Rabbi Lewis M. Barth
Dean of the HUC-JIR/Los Angeles and Professor of Midrash and Related Literature
›	Is Every Medieval Hebrew Manuscript a New Composition? - The Case of Pirqi Rabbi Eliezer

Dr. Avraham Biran
Director of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology, HUC-JIR/Jerusalem
›	90th Birthday Address

Dr. Eugene Borowitz
Sigmund L. Falk Distinguished Professor of Education and Jewish Religious Thought, HUC-JIR/New York
›	The Need for Interfaith Theological Dialogue
›	Our Stable/Shifting Task: From 'Choosing a Sex Ethic' to Today
›	The Pivotal Issue in a Century's Jewish Thought

Dr. Marc Bregman
Associate Professor of Rabbinic Literature, HUC-JIR/Jerusalem
›	A Lady of Legend: Serah Bat Asher

Professor David Cesarani
Director, Institute for Contemporary History and Wiener Library, London
›	1999 Roger E. Joseph Prize Acceptance Speech

Dr. Jonathan Cohen
Assistant Professor of Talmud and Halachic Literature, HUC-JIR/Cincinnati
›	"'Setting Examples: Role Models and Heroes in Medieval Halakhah,' The Rabbi Michael Matuson Professorship for Emerging Scholars Inaugural Lecture," Chronicle Issue 63 (2004) - available in PDF format

Dr. Martin A. Cohen
Professor of Jewish History, HUC-JIR/New York
›	New York Founders Day Address, 1998
›	Excerpts from the Keynote Address - Santángel 98

Dr. Norman J. Cohen
Provost, HUC-JIR and Professor of Midrash, HUC-JIR/New York
›	"New Rabbinical Core Curriculum Strengthens Teaching, Learning, and Congregational Impact," Chronicle Issue 62 (2003) - available in PDF format
›	"The Sabbath: A Taste of the Timeless," Chronicle Issue 59 (2001) - available in PDF format
›	"Strategic Planning for HUC-JIR's Future," Chronicle Issue 57 (1999)

Dr. Michael J. Cook
Sol and Arlene Bronstein Professor of Judaeo-Christian Studies; Professor of Intertestamental and Early Christian Literatures, HUC-JIR/Cincinnati
›	The Bishop's Cop-Out" in The Forward (site registration required) (2004)
›	Some Jewish Reactions to Mel Gibson' s film, The Passion of the Christ" (2004)
›	Excerpts from Postings Concerning: 'Our Gibson Strategy,' including a 'Checklist' of 48 critical motifs to look for in the Mel Gibson film, The Passion of the Christ" (2004)
›	"An Insider's Account of the Mel Gibson Ordeal," Chronicle Issue 63 (2004) - available in PDF format
›	"Jewish Understandings of the New Testament," Chronicle Issue 58 (1999) - available in PDF format

Dr. William Cutter
Director of the Kalsman Institute on Judaism and Health; Dr. Paul M. and Trudy Steinberg Distinguished Professor in Human Relations and Counseling; Professor of Education and Modern Hebrew Literature, HUC-JIR/Los Angeles
›	On History and Literature: New Readings of Jewish Texts in Honor of Arnold J. Band (with David C. Jacobson, Brown Judaic Studies, 2002), Chronicle Issue 62 (2003) - available in PDF format
›	"A Century and More: Hebrew Poetry and the Swift Chariot," Chronicle Issue 59 (2001) - available in PDF format

Professor Joseph Dan
Gershom Sholem Professor of Kabbalah, Institute of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
›	Ordination and Academic Convocation Address

Anita Diamant
›	2002 Cincinnati Ordination Address

Rabbi Elliot Dorff, Ph.D.
Rector and Sol & Anne Dorff Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Chair of Bioethics, University of Judaism
›	"Probing the Jewish Tradition for Moral Guidance," 2003 Los Angeles Graduation Address

Dr. Susan Einbinder
Associate Professor of Hebrew Literature, HUC-JIR/Cincinnati
›	Naso: Carrying On

Rabbi David Ellenson, Ph.D.
President; Gus Waterman Herrman Presidential Chair; I.H. and Anna Grancell Professor of Jewish Religious Thought
›	"President's Message," Chronicle Issue 65 (2005) - available in PDF format
›	"Changing Tide of Jewish Expression," The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles (2004)
›	"Rabbi Moses Ben Maimon" in the L.A. Journal (2004)
›	"Same-Sex Marriage, In The Jewish Tradition," Jewish Week, New York (2004)
›	"Embryonic cloning holds much promise; is not immoral," The Enquirer, Cincinnati (2004)
›	"Countering the Family Values Monopoly," The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles (2004)
›	"President's Message," Chronicle Issue 63 (2004) - available in PDF format
›	"Abortion Ban Degrades and Devalues Women," The Forward (2003)
›	Feinberg Lecture at University of Cincinnati, with link to videostream (2003)
›	"President's Message," Chronicle Issue 62 (2003) - available in PDF format
›	HUC-JIR Inaugural Address (2002)
›	"President's Message," Chronicle Issue 60 (2002)
›	"President's Message," Chronicle Issue 59 (2001) - available in PDF format

Dr. Tamara Cohn Eskenazi
Professor of Bible, HUC-JIR/Los Angeles
›	On Listening to Our Mothers: The Women of Reform Judaism Women's Commentary on Torah, Chronicle Issue 62 (2003) - available in PDF format

Dr. Shaul R. Feinberg
Associate Dean and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Jewish Education and Liturgy, HUC-JIR/Jerusalem
›	"From Jerusalem to Shanghai," Chronicle Issue 63 (2004) - available in PDF format

Dr. Reuven Firestone
Director of the Edgar F. Magnin School of Graduate Studies; Professor of Medieval Judaism and Islam, HUC-JIR/Los Angeles
›	"Religions Hold Mix of Justice and Mercy," The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles (2004)
›	"What Made Saddam Run?" in The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles (2003)
›	"Patience," Chronicle Issue 60 (2002)

Dr. Nili S. Fox
Associate Professor of Bible and Director of the Archaeology Center
›	'Unity in Diversity: A Quest for Fairness and Tolerance,' 2003 Cincinnati Founder's Day Address

The Reverend Peter John Gomes, D.D.
Harvard University
›	Friends of God And Prophets

Dr. Alfred Gottschalk
Chancellor, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
›	"Get Yourself a Teacher..."

Dr. Samuel Greengus
Julian Morgenstern Professor of Bible and Near Eastern Literature and Professor of Semitic Languages, HUC-JIR/Cincinnati
›	Stay the Course

Dr. David A. Harris
Executive Director, American Jewish Committee
›	2003 New York Graduation Address

Dr. C. Hassell Bullock
Professor of Old Testament and the Franklin S. Dyrness Professor of Biblical Studies, Wheaton College
›	'Hold Fast Our Integrity: A Joban Task in a Joban World' - 2003 Cincinnati Graduation Address

Dr. Lawrence A. Hoffman
Barbara and Stephen Friedman Professor of Liturgy, Worship, and Ritual, HUC-JIR/New York
›	"Time, Space, and the Memory of God," Chronicle Issue 60 (2002)

Ambassador Richard Holbrooke
Executive Director, American Jewish Committee
›	1999 Heller Prize address

Dr. Paula E. Hyman
Lucy G. Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History, Yale University
›	Jewish Identity on the Global Frontier, 2002 Los Angeles Graduation Address

Dr. Mark Kligman
Associate Professor of Jewish Musicology, HUC-JIR/New York
›	"200 Years of Jewish Music in America," Precis of a three-part course inaugurating the HUC-JIR/FAU partnership, Chronicle Issue 60 (2002)

Father Christopher Keenan
Chaplain of the City of New York Fire Department
›	2002 Roger E. Joseph Prize Acceptance Speech

Rabbi Lawrence S. Kushner
Rabbi-in-Residence, HUC-JIR
›	"Michael's Bar Mitvhah" An Excerpt of Rabbi Kushner's New York Founder's Day Address, March 13, 2001

Professor Sara S. Lee
Director, Rhea Hirsch School of Education and Adjunct Professor of Jewish Education, HUC-JIR/Los Angeles
›	"From HUC-JIR to China: Faculty Adventures of Professors Lee and Weisberg," Chronicle Issue 62 (2003) - available in PDF format

Burton Lehman
Chair, HUC-JIR Board of Governors
›	HUC-JIR Inaugural Charge to Rabbi David Ellenson (2002)

Rabbi Michael Marmur
Dean, HUC-JIR/Jerusalem
›	"Alter and Heshel on Jewish Time," Chronicle Issue 59 (2001) - available in PDF format

Professor Lowell G. McCoy
Professor Emeritus of Speech, HUC-JIR/Cincinnati
›	A Never Ending Journey, Cincinnati Founder's Day Address, February 25, 2001

Dr. Michael A. Meyer
Adolph S. Ochs Professor of Jewish History, HUC-JIR, Cincinnati
›	Rationality and Immorality -- Scholarship and Sin

Dr. Stanley Nash
Professor of Hebrew Literature
›	God and Man in the Poetry of Meir Wieseltier

Daniel A. Nigro
Chief of Department, City of New York Fire Department
›	2002 Roger E. Joseph Prize Acceptance Speech

Rabbi Aaron Panken, Ph.D.
Dean, HUC-JIR/New York
›	"Excerpt of a New Book: The Rhetoric of Innovation: Self-Conscious Legal Change in Rabbinic Literature," Chronicle Issue 65 (2005) - available in PDF format
›	"To Reflect and Renew," Kesher (1999)

(Rev.) John T. Pawlikowski, O.S.M., Ph.D.
Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, IL
›	On the Threshold: Religion's Role in the New Millenium, 2001 Cincinnati Commencement Address

Dr. Judea Pearl
›	Excerpts from the 2003 Roger E. Joseph Prize Acceptance Speech, May 4, 2003

Dr. Bruce A. Phillips
Professor of Jewish Communal Service, HUC-JIR/Los Angeles
›	A Jewish Sociologist Deciphers the Intricacies of Intermarriage

Jane G. Pisano
Senior Vice President of External Relations, University of Southern California
›	Commencement Remarks

Rabbi Sanford Ragins
Senior Rabbi, Leo Baeck Temple, Los Angeles
›	2003 Los Angeles Founder's Day Address

Bernard Reisman, Ph.D.
Klutznick Professor in Contemporary Jewish Studies, Brandeis University
›	Jerusalem and Babylon, 2002 Cincinnati Graduation Address

Rabbi David Saperstein
Director, Religious Action Center, Washington, DC
›	On the Threshold: Religion's Role in the New Millennium, 2001 New York Investiture and Ordination Address

Dr. Richard S. Sarason
Professor of Rabbinical Literature and Thought, HUC-JIR/Cincinnati
›	"Time and the Sacred," Chronicle Issue 59 (2001) - available in PDF format

Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, Ph.D.
Chancellor, Jewish Theological Seminary of America
›	The Centrality of the Synagogue, 2002 New York Graduation Address

Jerome H. Somers
Immediate Past Chairman, Board of Trustees, Union of American Hebrew Congreagations, and Attorney, Goodwin, Proctor and Hoar
›	2001 New York Commencement Address

Rabbi Susan A. Talve
Central Reform Congregation, St. Louis, MO
›	Standing at the Abyss, 2001 Cincinnati Ordination Address

Ellen M. Umansky
Carl and Dorothy Bennett Professor of Judaic Studies, Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut
›	Ordination and Investiture Address

Albert Vorspan
Senior Vice President, Emeritus, Union of American Hebrew Congregations and Director, Emeritus, Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism
›	Sea Changes in the Pursuit of Tikkun

Dr. David B. Weisberg
Professor of Bible and Semitic Languages, HUC-JIR/Cincinnati
›	"From HUC-JIR to China: Faculty Adventures of Professors Lee and Weisberg," Chronicle Issue 62 (2003) - available in PDF format

Ruth Weisberg
M.A., Laurea di Belle Arti, Dean, School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California
›	2001 Los Angeles Commencement Address

Dr. Steven F. Windmueller
Director, School of Jewish Communal Service, HUC-JIR/Los Angeles
›	"The Virtual Scene: The Passion of the Christ as Seen Through Websites and Chat Rooms" (2004)
›	"Are American Jews Becoming Republican? Insights into Jewish Political Behavior" in Jerusalem Viewpoints (2003)
›	"How the West Was Won: The HUC-JIR Story," Chronicle Issue 60 (2002)

Rabbi Ada Zavidov
Ordained at HUC-JIR Jerusalem, March 11, 1999
›	Response in the Name of the Ordinees

Dr. Wendy I. Zierler
Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish Literature and Feminist Studies, HUC-JIR/New York
›	Preview of And Rachel Stole the Idols: The Emergence of Modern Hebrew Women's Writing (Wayne State University Press, 2004), Chronicle Issue 63 (2004) - available in PDF format

Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman
›	President's Message," Chronicle Issue 57 (1999)
›	Four Centers of Learning for the Reform Movement," Chronicle Issue 57 (1999)

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