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 Marla Eglash Abraham, Appointed Interim Director of the School of Jewish Communal Service at HUC-JIR/LA 
"Marla Eglash Abraham is an extraordinary professional, a gifted teacher, and one of the College Institute's significant treasures, whose talents and resources will bring new creativity to the SJCS with this assignment," stated Dr. Steven Windmueller, Interim Dean, HUC-JIR/LA in announcing this appointment.
As Lecturer on Jewish Communal Service at HUC-JIR, her areas of expertise in teaching and consulting include strategic planning, fundraising and financial resource development, supervision and mentoring, and board development and training. Before coming to HUC-JIR, she was Director of Business and Professions of the United Jewish Fund of the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles. She is a past President of the Jewish Communal Service Professionals of Southern California. She received the dual degrees of Master of Arts in Jewish Communal Service at HUC-JIR/Los Angeles and M.S.W. from the University of Southern California in 1985. 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 |
