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 HUC-JIR Holds Ordination and Investiture Services at Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York on May 4, 2008 Eighteen Rabbis Ordained (of 55 Rabbinical Graduates of Class of 2008) and Six Cantors Invested at Convocation Marking 133rd Academic Year  HUC-JIR/NY Rabbinical Class of 2008  HUC-JIR/NY Cantorial Class of 2008  Rabbis, Cantors, and HUC-JIR Administration at Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York Six cantors were invested, and fifty-five rabbinical students will have been ordained this year at HUC-JIR's Ordination ceremonies: 18 in New York, 18 in Los Angeles (May 18), and 19 in Cincinnati (May 31). Rabbi David Ellenson delivered the Ordination Address and presented the 2008 Roger E. Joseph Prize to Father Patrick Desbois, Advisor to the Vatican's Commission for Religious Relations with Jews, and President of Yahad-in-Unum: Catholics and Jewish Together, for devoting his life to confronting anti-Semitism, furthering Catholic-Jewish relations, and preserving Holocaust memory. The newly invested cantors will be joining Temple Rodeph Torah of Western Monmouth, NJ; Temple Emanu-el of Oak Park, MI; North Country Reform Temple of Glen Cove, NY; Congregation Sinai of Milwaukee, WI; Community Synagogue of Rye, NY; and Har Sinai Hebrew Congregation of Pennington, NJ. HUC-JIR's newly ordained rabbis will be joining over 50 congregations throughout the United States and Canada, and a congregation in Auckland, New Zealand. Founded in 1875, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion is the nation's oldest institution of higher Jewish education and the academic, spiritual, and professional leadership development center of Reform Judaism. HUC-JIR educates men and women for service to American and world Jewry as rabbis, cantors, educators, and communal service professionals, and offers graduate and post-graduate programs to scholars of all faiths. With centers of learning in Cincinnati, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, and New York, HUC-JIR's scholarly resources comprise renowned library and museum collections, the American Jewish Archives, biblical archaeology excavations, research institutes and centers, and academic publications. HUC-JIR invites the community to an array of cultural and educational programs which illuminate Jewish history, identity, and contemporary creativity and which foster interfaith and multiethnic understanding. Visit us at www.huc.edu |
