The HUC-JIR Community extends sincere sympathy to

The family of Reva Kirschberg, beloved member of the HUC-JIR/NY community. Reva served on the New York Board of Overseers and was a member of the Dean's Council. She was the Founding Director of the Museum at HUC-JIR, Chair emerita of the Museum Advisory Committee, Registrar and Chair of the Museum Docent Program. A renowned historian of Jewish art and Judaica, Reva was dedicated to the College-Institute and to perpetuating Judaism through the teaching of its culture. Reva was also the Curator Emerita of the Herbert and Eileen Bernard Museum of Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York

Dr. Rachel Adler (Associate Professor of Modern Jewish Thought and Judaism and Gender, HUC-JIR/LA) on the death of her mother Lorraine Rubin

Cordelia Austin on the death of her aunt, Linda Williams

Rabbi Judith Bluestein (C '84 and graduate student, HUC-JIR/Cincinnati) on the death of her father Paul H. Bluestein

Lee Bycel (N '79, Former Dean of HUC-JIR/LA '85-'97) on the death of his mother, Claire Bycel

Dr. William Cutter (C '65, Director of the Kalsman Institute on Judaism and Health, Paul and Trudy Steinberg Professor of Human Relations, Professor of Education and Modern Hebrew Literature, and Lecturer in Chaplaincy, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion/LA), and Georgianne Fisher Cutter on the death of his father in-law Irving Fisher

Marian DeWitt (Los Angeles Board of Overseers) on the death of her husband Donald DeWitt

Amy Feder (rabbinical student, HUC-JIR/NY) on the death of her great grandmother, Esther Werner

Ruth Friedman (Assistant Director of National Public Affairs) on the death of her mother Reina Tanenbaum

The family of Rabbi Marianne Luijken Gevirtz, a gifted, brilliant, and engaging person who came to study in the Rhea Hirsch School of Education, where she received her MAHE. Marianne then returned to HUC-JIR for her Rabbinic Ordination in 1996. She was married to the late Dr. Stanley Gevirtz, z"l, who was a Professor of Bible at HUC-JIR, Los Angeles.

Cantor Israel Goldstein (Director of the School of Sacred Music, HUC-JIR/New York) on the death of his sister Sally Rubin

Burton (Board of Governors Honorary member) and Geri Joseph on the death of their daughter, Shelley Joseph-Kordell

Rabbi Samuel K. Joseph (Professor of Jewish Education and Leadership Development, HUC-JIR/Cincinnati, C' 77) and Dori Joseph on the death of their grandmother Helene Haltenorth

Alysa Mendelson (rabbinical student, HUC-JIR/NY) on the death of her grandmother, Sylvia Singer

Hank Osmundson, (Administrative Assistant in the National Office of Distance Education, LA) on the death of his grandfather Thomas H. Osmundson, Sr.

Stuart Siegel (rabbinical student, HUC-JIR/NY) on the death of his father, Alexander Siegel

Marian Smith, HUC-JIR/Cincinatti retiree

Helene (Member, Museum Advisory Committee, HUC-JIR/NY) and Leonard Spring on the death of their daughter, Lesley Sanders

Taron Tachman (rabbinical student, HUC-JIR/NY) on the death of his grandmother, Florence Tachman

Richard A. Weiland (Honorary Chairman of the Cincinnati Associates, Vice Chairman of the Cincinnati Board of Overseers, & Chairman of the Board of the Center for Holocaust & Humanity Education) on the death of his wife Marcia Pastor Weiland