President's Message

Dear Friends:

I'm delighted to welcome you to the Winter 2005 issue of Kesher, our new semi-annual online newsletter for alumni, students, faculty, administration, and friends of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. You can access the current issue, as well as past issues, at

This electronic publication, disseminated via the Internet, enables us to transcend time and space in linking our HUC-JIR family throughout the world.

We invite you to learn more about the extraordinary individuals who constitute our HUC-JIR community. We encourage you to share your news with us in future editions of Kesher.

Rabbi David Ellenson
President

Editor's Note:

Kesher features We Take Pride (news items, awards, professional accomplishments, et al), Congratulations (family and personal news), Welcome/Appointments (new faces at HUC-JIR), and In Memoriam.

Kesher is posted twice a year. The deadlines for news submissions are June 15 and December 15. Please send your news on a regular basis (and be sure to include your name, title, school affiliation, and/or year of graduation) to your campus correspondent:

HUC-JIR/Cincinnati -- Cathy Weinberger: cweinberger@huc.edu
HUC-JIR/Jerusalem -- Ginny Ben-Ari: gbenari@huc.edu
HUC-JIR/New York -- Amy Lehr: alehr@huc.edu

or directly to the Editor, Rachel Litcofsky, at rlitcofsky@huc.edu