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December 2002

• New York Kollel Launches Spring 2003 Community Programs
• Israel Seminar for Jewish Communal Service Students
• Distance Education course on "Judaism and Islam" offered by Joint Commission for Sustaining Rabbinic Education
• Certificate Course in Synagogue Management for Synagogue Leaders and Administrators
• December 11 - Evan Moffic to present "In Search of the Jewish People: Modern Jewish Thinkers and HUC-JIR's Year-in-Israel Program" at Food for Thought Lecture
• HUC-JIR and Jewish Family Service welcome Wendy Mnookin, award winning and critically acclaimed author and poet, for two special events
• Kalsman Institute on Judaism and Health and USC Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life present Caring for Our Nation: Jews and America's Healthcare Crisis

November 2002

• Taking a Second Look at the November Elections: Selected Jewish Insights and Implications by Steven Windmueller
• Holocaust Studies for Educators: A 21st Century Challenge
• Experiment in Congregational Education Receives Grant from UJA-Federation of New York to Help Synagogues Revitalize Their Congregational Schools
• Five Area College Presidents to Offer "Advice" to New HUC-JIR President David Ellenson at 20th Annual Cincinnati Associates Tribute Dinner
• November 20 - Professor Mark Stavsky to present "Civil Disabilities: Secret 'Punishment' for Ex-Offenders" at Food For Thought Luncheon Lecture
• November 24 - Conference and Concert in Memory of Dr. Eric Werner
  Dr. Eric Werner (1901-1988): Building Sacred Bridges
• November 19 - Artists' Panel Discussion: Revisioning Biblical Women

October 2002

• The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives announces two fellowship seminars for the 2002-03 year
• October 24: Facing History Teacher Workshop: Rebirth After the Holocaust The Bergen-Belson Displaced Persons Camp, 1945-1950
• October 27: Cantorial Class of 2003 Presents Concert
• November 12: Leonard Nimoy lecture on his photography exhibition Shekhina
• Memorial Service Dr. Eugene Mihaly, Rabbi, professor, and vice-president of HUC-JIR
• Nazi-Hunter Addresses Center for Holocaust and Humanity Women's Tea
• Dr. Stephen Fine to present at Food For Thought Luncheon Lecture
• Rabbi David Ellenson, Ph.D., inaugurated as 8th President of HUC-JIR
• Read the Inauguration Address and the Inauguration Charge

September 2002

• Film Premiere, October 29, Undying Love: True Stories of Courage and Faith
• Three Illustrated Lectures: The Archaeology of Jerusalem, Professor Jodi Magness
• Eric Werner: Building Sacred Bridges Conference and Concert
• The Joint Commission for Sustaining Rabbinic Education announces its fall distance education courses
• DeLeT Program at HUC-JIR's Rhea Hirsch School of Education featured in Los Angeles Jewish Journal, August 23, 2002
• Continuing Legal Education
• HUC-JIR/Cincinnati announces Opening Exercises for 2002-2003 Academic Year
• Dr. Jonathan Krasner at HUC-JIR/Cincinnati to present at first Food For Thought Luncheon Lecture of 2002-2003 Series
• HUC-JIR/Cincinnati’s Academy for Adult Interfaith Studies announces Fall Classes
• Rabbi David Ellenson's Letter from Jerusalem

August 2002

• Rabbi David Ellenson, Ph.D., to be Inaugurated as 8th President of HUC-JIR
  • Inauguration Advisory
• HUC-JIR Institute for Religious School Teaching Assistants
• On view at HUC-JIR Museum/New York:
  • Rebirth After the Holocaust: The Bergen-Belson Displaced Persons Camp, 1945-1950
  • Leonard Nimoy: Shekhina
  • Archetype/Anonymous: Biblical Women in Contemporary Art
  • Vibrant Echoes: Photographs by Barbara Freedman
• Rabbi Shirley Idelson Appointed Associate Dean at HUC-JIR/New York
• New York Kollel launches its Fall 2002 Community Programs
• HUC-JIR New York School of Education announces the start of Gateways for Learning
• Aaron Panken to speak at September 11: Religious Perspectives on the Causes And Consequences
• Culminating Exercises of Irwin Daniels School of Jewish Communal Service

July 2002

• HUC-UC Center for the Study of Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems welcomes Professor Mark Stavsky as Scholar-in-Residence
• Rabbi David Ellenson to be honored at HUC-JIR's 20th Annual Cincinnati Associates Tribute Dinner
• HUC-JIR Library Appointments
• Weiland named chairman of The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education at HUC-JIR/Cincinnati
• Rabbi Aaron Panken presents "Myth, Magic and Mysticism" October 15
• Rabbi David Ellenson to Speak at The Jewish Center of the Hamptons

June 2002

• Dr. Jonathan Krasner appointed Assistant Professor of American Jewish History
• Summer at HUC-JIR/Cincinnati
• HUC-JIR mourns the death of Dr. Eugene Mihaly, reform Rabbi, professor, and vice-president of College-Institute
• HUC-JIR mourns the death of Audrey Skirball-Kenis, Vice-Chair, HUC-JIR Board of Governors
• Statement by President Ellenson on 2002-2003 Year-In-Israel Program
• Read the Cincinnati Ordination Address by Anita Diamant
• Highlights from HUC-JIR's Graduation/Investiture/Ordination Ceremonies
• HUC-JIR/Cincinnati awarded prizes to outstanding students at Graduation
• Summer at HUC-JIR/Jerusalem
• Read the Los Angeles Graduation Address: Dr. Paula E. Hyman, "Jewish Identity on the Global Frontier"
• Read the Cincinnati Graduation Address: Bernard Reisman, Ph.D., "Jerusalem and Babylon"

May 2002

• HUC-JIR Skirball Museum Docents Honored
• Thomas L. Friedman to receive The Dr. Bernard Heller Prize
• Concert at HUC-JIR/NY: Living Ladino
• Food for Thought Lecture Series: Rabbi David Ellenson to present "Two Types of Zionism"
• Sally F. Korkin of Cincinnati inducted as a member of the Board of Overseers
• HUC-JIR/Cincinnati proudly announces the graduate degree and honorary degree recipients of the Class of 2002
• HUC-JIR/Cincinnati proudly announces the ordination recipients of the Class of 2002
• Read Daniel A. Nigro's 2002 Roger E. Joseph Prize Acceptance Speech & Father Christopher Keenan's 2002 Roger E. Joseph Prize Acceptance Speech
• Read the NY Graduation Address: Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, Ph.D., "The Centrality of the Synagogue"
• View HUC-JIR/NY Graduation Live on the Internet
• Joy Wasserman appointed National Director of Alumni Affairs
• Rabbi David Komerofsky appointed Director of the Rabbinical School and Dean of Students of HUC-JIR/Cincinnati

April 2002

• The Graduation/Ordination/Investiture Advisory 2002 has been issued
• Cincinnati Graduation and Ordination Advisory
• Los Angeles Graduation and First Ordination Advisory
• New York Graduation, Ordination, and Investiture Advisory
• Dr. Avraham Biran awarded Israel Prize
• May events in New York City and Washington, DC
• Visiting Prof. Elliot Wolfson to present Bettan Lecture at HUC-JIR/Cincinnati -- April 18 at 7 pm
• Bulgaria and Denmark Honored by HUC-JIR for Rescue of Jewish Citizens during the Holocaust
• Roots of Human Violence Explored in Dance Liturgy Program at HUC-JIR/Cincinnati - April 24 at 11 am
• "Zero Tolerance: Education and Justice for All" presented by HUC-UC Ethics Center in Cincinnati
• Thomas L. Friedman to receive the 2002 Dr. Bernard Heller Prize
• Chaplain Mychal Judge, posthumously, and The City of New York Fire Department to receive the 2002 Roger E. Joseph Prize
• Rabbi Sally J. Priesand: Private Thoughts of a Public Person
  Watercolors of the First Woman Rabbi in America on view
• Dr. Reuven Firestone to Lead a Panel Discussion “Understanding Islam in Light of the Issues of Our Times”
• Two Evenings of Jewish Humor
• Sunday, April 14th: Annual Max and Florence Minsky Concert
• Honoring Bulgaria and Denmark for Rescue of Jews during the Holocaust
• Moral Courage Exhibit at Skirball Museum

March 2002

• April Food for Thought Luncheon: "Righteousness CAN be taught: Role models from the Holocaust"
• Dr. Paul M. Steinberg Appointed Vice President for Communal Development
• Art and Jewish Humor Programs at HUC-JIR/New York
• President's Letter on the Year-In-Israel Program
• Letter from HUC-JIR Year-in-Israel Students
• HUC-JIR President Issues Statement on Year-in-Israel Program
• Founders Day Address by Dr. David Weisberg, Professor of Bible and Semitic Languages, Presented at HUC-JIR/Cincinnati, February 24, 2002
• HUC-JIR Launches Redesigned Website
• Living in the Moment: Contemporary Artists Celebrate Jewish Time on permanent view at HUC-JIR Museum in New York
• Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and Florida Atlantic University launch Cooperative Judaic Studies Initiative

February 2002

• Founders' Day Ceremonies Honor Alumni
• Holocaust Awareness Weeks Organized by HUC-JIR Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education
• Academy for Adult Interfaith Studies in Cincinnati Offers Spring Classes
• HUC-JIR's Blanche and Irving Laurie Lecture in Jewish Women’s Studies Presents Composer/Writer Elizabeth Swados
• Synagogue Transformation Through Education - Now on the Web
• National Historic Publications and Records Commission Selects Marcus Center to Host Archival Fellow
• Holocaust Artifacts Sought by HUC-JIR's Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education in Cincinnati
• Film Premiere: Back to Gombin
• Elizabeth Swados, Award-winning Director, Composer, and Writer Appointed the Rabbi Sally J. Priesand Visiting Professor of Jewish Women’s Studies
• Continuing Legal Education, Legal Ethics in Jewish and American Law
• Ruth Weisberg: The Open Door Haggadah on view in New York
• Rabbi Jerome R. Malino Honored at the Dedication of The Jerome R. Malino Faculty Development Fund
• HUC-JIR's New York School of Education Awarded a Covenant Foundation Grant and a UJA-Federation Grant
• Panel Discussion, Artistic Expressions of Contemporary Israeli Identity

January 2002

• Museum Exhibition: Yaacov Chefetz: There They Will Change My Name
• Abraham and Ibrahim: The Intersection of Judaism and Islam After 9/11, Third Annual Eastern Region Associates' Yom Iyum/Day of Learning
• HUC-JIR Appoints New Vice President of Finance, Robert J. Goldsmith
• Read HUC-JIR President David Ellenson's UAHC Biennial Address
• Franchon Shur Dance Program at HUC-JIR/Cincinnati
• Museum Exhibition: Ruth Weisberg: The Open Door Haggadah
• HUC-UC Ethics Center to host "Opera Rap: A Panel Discussion on Capital Punishment"
• New York Kollel Launches its Spring 2002 Community Programs
• Holocaust Artifact Conservation Workshop