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October, 2008
› Rabbi David Ellenson, President of HUC-JIR, Joins "New York's Coolest Jews" in High Holidays Discussion on TV
› Inaugural Retreat for Schusterman Rabbinical Fellows Explores Unity of Purpose Across Denominational Lines
› RHSOE Holds Inaugural Sara S. Lee Colloquium
› Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles Names Rabbi Sharon Brous Recipient of Inaugural Inspired Leadership Award
› Bless This Hut: The Rise of the Prefab Sukkah - Rabbi David Ellenson in The New York Times
› The Fight for the Jewish Vote - Newsweek
› Rabbi David Ellenson to Speak at Adath Israel Congregation in Cincinnati (pdf)
› Rabbi David Ellenson to Participate in Roundtable Discussion: "Three Movements - One Future: Challenges Facing American Jews" (pdf)
› ASSAF: Judaism, Health and Healing for Physicians, December 2008 through March 2009
› Rabbis on Anti-Gay Marriage Prop 8 - The Jewish Journal
› For Jewish Voters, the '08 Race Raises Interesting Challenges - JTA
› Vote, Schmote: Courting the Never-Elusive Jewish Vote - Philadelphia Weekly
› Herbert Ashley Bernhard: Obituaries in The Los Angeles Times
› Avraham Biran 1909-2008: Archeologist of Biblical Sites - The Chicago Tribune
› The Glamour of the Grammar: Remember This - The Jerusalem Post
› Renew Year: A Web Site for Introspection During the High Holidays - The Jerusalem Post
› The Woman Behind "An American Carol" - The American Spectator
› Jewish Rite No Longer is Solely in Men's Hands - The Chicago Tribune
› Survey Numbers Show American Jews To Be Less Religious on Many Measures - The Forward
› Film Portrays Obama as Friend to Israel - The Forward
› "Our Faith Embraces Humanity At Sukkot" - Rabbi David Ellenson in The Jewish Week
› The Wexner Foundation Introduces New Fellows
› Reception for To Speak Her Heart: Leslie Golomb and Barbara Broff Goldman at HUC-JIR Museum in NY October 29, 2008
September, 2008
› World Union Honors Rabbi Posner and Women of Reform Judaism
› Government Provides Building to Fourth Israeli Congregation
› Eating Justly
› WRJ Debuts Online Study Guide for The Torah: A Women's Commentary
› 2008 Book Fair – Dayton Jewish Observer
› Cantor-in-Training Welcomed to Temple Beth Jacob – The Times Herald Record
› Jews Prepare for Holiest Days – The Herald-Tribune
› Rabbi Friedman Takes the Helm at West Boca's Shaarei Kodesh – The Sun Sentinal
› HRC to Host Faith and Fairness Townhall – Out
› Pre-doctoral M.A. in Jewish Studies to Commence in 2009; Accepting Applicants
› Training Future Rabbis, Cantors and Educators to be Mavens at HUC-JIR – Storahtelling
› Rabbi David Ellenson is Featured in New Book: Hope Not Fear: A Path to Jewish Renaissance, by Edgar M. Bronfman
› Rabbi Ellenson Speaks on "Shaking the Conscience of American Jewry: The Rabbinical Students who Challenged Jewish Leaders to Push Forcefully for Holocaust Rescue" at Fordham University School of Law
› Howard Gellis Inducted onto New York Board of Overseers at HUC-JIR
› On Exhibit at the Frances-Henry Library at HUC-JIR/LA: "Gershom Scholem and the Messianic Idea in Judaism"
› Marissa Hollander Inducted onto New York Board of Overseers at HUC-JIR
› Linda K. Levi Inducted onto New York Board of Overseers at HUC-JIR
› Inaugural Retreat for Schusterman Rabbinical Fellows Explores Unity of Purpose Across Denominational Lines
› Further Avraham Biran Coverage in The New York Times
› A Dispute Over Property Taxes: IRAC Defends HUC-JIR's Status in Israel From the Israel Religious Action Center Newsletter
› Movement Promoting Important Convention on Law and Mental Health
› HUC-JIR Cantorial Faculty Lead Inaugural Events at Jewish Institute of Cantorial Arts at Abraham Geiger Kolleg, Berlin
› Cantor Bruce L. Ruben, Ph.D., Director of the School of Sacred Music, to Receive 2008 Roberta Thornton Award from the City University of New York
› Berlin Cantorial School Opens - JTA
› Fabulously Observant: The 3 Most Important US Jews - The Jerusalem Post
› Trove of Jewish Art on Show - The Miami Herald
› HUC-JIR Alumn Rabbi Laurie Coskey, SJCS '83, C '85, Opposes California Proposition 8 - The San Diego Union-Tribune
› Envisioning Maps Opens at HUC-JIR/NY Museum with Artists' Reception September 25, 2008
› Artists' Reception for Sephardi and Mizrachi Arts: Identity and Heritage in Transition at HUC-JIR/LA September 25, 2008
› The Frances-Henry Library at HUC-JIR/LA Exhibiting Gershom Scholem and the Messiah in Jewish Thought
› Adrienne Souther-Geffen Appointed to HUC-JIR/Los Angeles Board of Overseers
› Jeffrey A. Seymour Appointed to HUC-JIR/Los Angeles Board of Overseers
› HUC-JIR to Cosponsor 'Promoting Jewish Literacy in Educational Settings' Conference
› Rabbi Ellenson to Honor Pioneering Rabbi
› DeLeT: The Solution
› Envisioning Maps Opens at HUC-JIR/NY Museum with Artists' Reception September 25, 2008
› L.A.'s Wilshire Boulevard Temple Rebuilds on Past Glory - Los Angeles Times
› Allowing Jews to Practice Judaism - The Jewish Outreach Institute
› A New Take on an Old Story - World Jewish Digest
› Rabbi Gives Jews a Proper Introduction to Islam - Jewish News Weekly
› Arts Preview: Fall Exhibitions at HUC-JIR/NY - The Jewish Week
› Rabbis Endorse Certification Plan - The New York Times
› Rabbis in New Pulpits in Time for Holidays - New Jersey Jewish Standard
› Passionate About People, Passionate About Judaism - The News-Sun
› HUC-JIR Cantorial Faculty to Lead Inaugural Events at Jewish Institute of Cantorial Arts, Abraham Geiger Kolleg, Berlin
› Artists' Reception for Sephardi and Mizrachi Arts: Identity and Heritage in Transition at HUC-JIR/LA September 25, 2008
› Dr. Gary P. Zola Invited to Participate in the National Conference on Citizenship in Washington
› Rabbi Stephen Passamaneck Awarded Highest Chaplain Credential
› Rabbi Stacy Offner Joins Union Staff as Vice President
› The Teacher - The Jewish Journal (PDF)
› Many Mansions - Sojourners Magazine
› HUC-JIR School of Sacred Music Announces 2008-2009 Practica and Recital Schedule (PDF)
› HUC-JIR Department of Youth Programs Announces 2008-2009 High School and College Events (PDF)
› Dr. David Kaufman to Present on '60's Generation at the Center for Jewish History
› Kalsman Institute on Judaism and Health at HUC-JIR Presents Interdisciplinary Conference in May 2009
› Peter A. Joseph, Member of the Board of Governors, Elected President of the Israel Policy Forum
› Visiting Author to Explore Jewish-Muslim Dynamics at Public Forum - The Jewish Exponent
› Jewish Guides to Christianity - The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle
› Longtime Temple Israel Cantor Dies - Tulsa World
› New Plano Rabbi is First Woman to Lead a North Texas Synagogue - The Dallas Morning News
› Two Houstonians Credit JCRS with their Path to Success - The Jewish Herald-Voice
› JCMI Welcomes New Rabbi - Marco Eagle
› HUC-JIR College Colloquium and Open Houses for College Students
› HUC-JIR Department of Youth Programs Announces 2008-2009 High School Events
› HUC-JIR/NY Students and Faculty Study and Retreat at Annual Kallah
August, 2008
› "A Tragic Annulment," by Rabbi David Ellenson, Ph.D. - The Jerusalem Report (PDF)
› Rabbi Julie Pelc Named Director of Berit Mila Program of Reform Judaism
› HUC-JIR Announces New Visiting Faculty in Israel Studies
› Longtime Temple Leader Jerome Grollman Dies - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
› Cantor Samuel Berman Dies at 61 - Ocala Star-Banner
› Rabbi Finley Bukaitz of Boca Raton Dies - Sun Sentinal
› Life and Death on King David Street - The Jerusalem Post
› Who Uses Yiddish Words? Maybe You - Chicago Sun Times
› Storied L.A. Shul Thinks Big, Seeks $100 Million - The Forward
› Music, Song Drive Cantors' Work - Poughkeepsie Journal
› Jewish Prayer for Persisting: Moving Beyond Misheberach - Spirituality and Health
› High Holy Day/Sukkot/Simchat Torah Services at HUC-JIR/Jerusalem
› Rabbi Richard Levy Appointed Rabbi of the Campus Synagogue and Director of Spiritual Growth at HUC-JIR/LA
› Dr. Dvora Weisberg Appointed Director of the School of Rabbinical Studies at HUC-JIR/LA
› HUC-JIR Joins with URJ to Support Progressive Israeli Rabbis
› HUC-JIR Joins the Omar Ibn Al Khattab Foundation and USC to Form Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement
› Eleven Students Graduate with Certificate in Jewish Communal Service from the Los Angeles Campus of HUC-JIR
› Reform, Conservative Seminaries in Historic Partnership to Train Clergy - JTA
› Meeting of the Seminary Minds - The Jewish Week
› How Modernity Changed Judaism - Interview with David Ellenson - JCPA Institute for Global Jewish Affairs
› HUC-JIR Provost Norman Cohen Featured on Shalom TV
› An Evening with Dr. Susannah Heschel, Wednesday, September 3, 2008, at the American Jewish Archives
› Envisioning Maps Opens at HUC-JIR/NY Museum with Artists' Reception September 25, 2008
› Integrating Sephardi and Mizrachi Studies: Research and Practice, to be Held November 16-18, 2008 in Los Angeles
› Mifgash Musicale Held at HUC-JIR/Cincinnati
› Future Reform Rabbinical Leaders Grapple with Questions of Collectivity and Jewish Peoplehood
July, 2008
› Our Voices, Our Selves: Women Reclaiming Jewish Canonical Texts
› Composer Ben Steinberg to Present Work at HUC-JIR/Cincinnati
› Rabbi Dr. A. Stanley Dreyfus (1921-2008) - Distinguished Leader of Reform Rabbinate and Beloved Professor at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Died on July 8, 2008
› 2008-2009 HUC-JIR Recruitment Programs in Israel
› News from Abraham Geiger College: Fellowship Awarded to Dr. Reuven Firestone; Academic Excellence Prize Goes to Abraham Geiger College student; Dr. Dalia Marx in Germany; UJA Grant
› Fellowship for Rabbinical Students Targets US Jewry's Challenges - The Jerusalem Post
› Audio: Interview with Rabbi David Ellenson - AJC Wire
› Dr. Steven M. Cohen and Dr. Ari Y. Kelman - Haaretz
› Study: Jewish Identity Strong in Young Singles - Jewish Federation of the Berkshires
› JTS Facing $2 Million Budget Shortfall - The Jewish Week
› Jewish Community Centers Open Their Doors to Wider Audiences - The Forward
› Researchers Discuss Ways to Improve Jewish Education - Cleveland Jewish News
› Comic Art to Counter the Grimmer Side of Graphic Novels - Tulsa World
› Condolences to the Family of Patricia W. Tanenbaum - WUPJ
› Second IMPJ Congregation Dedicates State-Funded Building - WUPJ
› Bridge to Adulthood - Yakima Herald
› Woman with a Skullcap - The Hindu Business Line
› Relationships (Even with God) are Hard - The Washington Post
› Singing as a Life, Faith, and Profession - The Roanoke Times
› From Stockbroker to Rabbi - The Repository
› Religion profile: Meet Rabbi Marci Bloch - The Sun Sentinel
› Saul Mirowitz Day School-Reform Jewish Academy Names New Head of School - Jewish in St. Louis
June, 2008
›Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Burton Lehman Faculty Retreat
›Kalsman Institute on Judaism and Health at HUC-JIR Presents Interdisciplinary Conference
›New Rabbis Ordained at HUC-JIR Ordination Ceremony in Cincinnati
›HUC-JIR Graduation Honors Jewish Leaders, Alumni, and Graduating Class of 2008 at Isaac M. Wise Temple in Cincinnati
›Marjorie L. Miller Appointed Chair of Board of Overseers of the New York School of HUC-JIR
›Joan Pines Appointed Chair of Board of Overseers of the Cincinnati School of HUC-JIR
›Reform Judaism Magazine Launches Online Summer 2008 Issue Featuring HUC-JIR Faculty Expertise
›HUC-JIR/NY Professor Sperling Featured in "Indiana Jones and the Ultimate Quest" on the History Channel
›HUC-JIR Faculty, Students, and Alumni Participate in Hava Nashira, the Annual Songleading and Music Workshop
›Shavuot: One Torah, Many Views
›URJ Meeting Here Focused on Torah Study - The Jewish Chronicle of Pittsburgh
›Hear, O Israel: Two Newly Ordained Deaf Rabbis Point to the Increasing Acceptance of Diversity within the Jewish Community - The Jewish Week
›Reform Rabbinical School Teaches Students to Reach Out to HIV/AIDS Patients - The Jewish Journal
›New Visions: A Once-Blind Artist Presents Two Exhibitions - The Forward
›News From Postville May Be Treyf, but Kosher Consumers Keep Buying - The Forward
›Jewish Conference Not Welcome in Egypt - The Jewish Journal
›Shaare Emeth Honors Rabbi Andrea Goldstein - St. Louis Jewish Light
›Synagogue Honors Teachers on Festival of Shavuot - St. Thomas Source
›MSMC President Honored - The Tidings
›HUC-JIR Museum Exhibit On View at the Citigroup Center in New York: Project Kesher - Women and Jewish Renaissance in Ukraine, Photographs by Joan Roth
›Feminists Hope for More Gains - The Canadian Jewish News
May, 2008
›Eight Exhibitions on View at HUC-JIR Museum in New York through July 11, 2008
›Shavuot Greetings from Rabbi David Ellenson and Barbara Friedman
›Schusterman Rabbinical Fellowship Program a Milestone in Collaboration
›HUC-JIR to Co-Sponsor Academic Conference on American Jewish History
›Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman Reflects on HUC-JIR Graduation in Los Angeles
›Cracking The Glass Ceiling - The Jewish Week
›Book of Jewish Women's Prayers Brings Local Authors Closer to Their Faith - The Pittsburgh Post Gazette
›HUC-JIR Ordination and Graduation Ceremonies in Cincinnati to be Held this Weekend
›First Ordained Female Rabbi To Speak At Westchester Reform Temple
›Rosalyn Engelman Exhibition at HUC-JIR/NY Museum Featured in 'A Modern Collection, Awash With Color' in NY Sun
›'Jewish Vision' Exhibition from HUC-JIR Museum/NY at Tyler Museum of Art
›Cinema Judaica: Epic Cycle at HUC-JIR Museum in New York
›HUC-JIR/LA Holds Ordination Services at Wilshire Boulevard Temple on May 18, 2008
›HUC-JIR Graduation Honors Jewish Leaders, Alumni and Graduating Class of 2008 on the Los Angeles Campus
›Reuven Firestone on "Media and Violence from a Jewish Perspective" at Sixth Doha Conference of Inter-Faith Dialogue in Qatar
›News from Abraham Geiger College
›10.6.73 - The Yom Kippur War: Photographs by Tom Heyman at HUC-JIR/NY Museum; Reception May 29, 2008
›HUC-JIR/NY Choir to Perform in Honor of Cantor Dana Anesi
›American Jewish Archives Publishes Latest Edition of AJA Journal
›Introduction to Islam for Jews, by Reuven Firestone, Published by The Jewish Publication Society
›Jewish Lights Publishes Rabbi Leonard A. Schoolman's The Changing Christian World, A Brief Introduction for Jews
›The Gift of Grief, by HUC-JIR Alumnus Rabbi Matthew D. Gewirtz, Published by Ten Speed Press
›Re-spinning Ancient Verses for Modern Readers - Rabbi Simeon J. Maslin Spins Vignettes, Memoirs and Midrash from Biblical Verses to Address Issues in the Lives of Modern People
›Study Night Near Gaza - Rabbi Michael Marmur in The Jerusalem Post
›The Update: Special Report
›A Nation in Focus - Hadassah Magazine
›Marriage Ruling is a Great Leap Forward - San Francisco Chronicle
›Inland Clergy React Differently to Court's Same-Sex Marriage Ruling - The Press Enterprise
›How to Answer the Most Common Anti-Israel Charges - The Jewish Journal
›Hebrew Union to ordain 19 - The Enquirer
›Author: 'I Don't Believe God Sends His People Out to Go to War' - The Advocate
›Dry Tears: An Installation by Rosalyn Engelman - Hadassah Magazine
›Exhibitions at Two Jewish Museums Honored By The American Association of Museums - Art Daily
›Rabbi David Ellenson, Ph.D., Receives Doctor of Humane Letters from The College of William and Mary; Presented by Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
›Rabbi David Ellenson in President Bush's U.S. Honorary Delegation for Israel's 60th Anniversary
›Catholic Approach To The Shoah - The Jewish Week
›IJSO Response to California Supreme Court
›HUC-JIR Students to Travel to Germany; Will Learn About the Status of German Jewery and Participate in "Germany Close Up"
›Joshua Holo, Ph.D., Director of the Louchheim School of Judaic Studies and Associate Professor of Jewish History at HUC-JIR, to speak on Jews and the Ghetto in Venice at the National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
›Rabbi Carole Balin, Professor at HUC-JIR/NY, Featured in PBS Documentary 'The Jewish People: A Story of Survival'
›Rabbi Urges Acts of Kindness During Interfaith Prayer Breakfast - The Virginian-Pilot
›U.S. Jews' Relationship With Israel Evolves - The Washington Post
›Wrestling with Independence - Newsweek
›HUC-JIR Alumni Lead Progressive Jewish Community in Poland
›Helping Synagogues Meet Members' Needs - The Jewish Week
›Local Rabbi Serves 25 Years - The Telegraph
›The Art and Discipline of Experiments That Matter - Synergy (PDF)
›HUC-JIR/LA Ordination and Graduation Ceremonies to Be Held this Weekend
›HUC-JIR Holds Ordination and Investiture Services at Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York on May 4, 2008
›Father Patrick Desbois Receives HUC-JIR's Highest Honor; Roger E. Joseph Prize Recognizes Individuals Making Lasting Contributions to the Causes of Human Rights
›Rabbi David Ellenson to Receive Honorary Doctorate at William & Mary; Will be Keynote Speaker at Interfaith Breakfast in Virginia Beach
›HUC-JIR/Jerusalem Celebrates Israel's 60th Anniversary
›Cantor Dana Anesi Installed onto HUC-JIR Board of Governors; First Cantor to Become Governor Representing All HUC-JIR Alumni
›HUC-JIR's Experts in Synagogue Growth to Participate in UJA-Federation of NY's "Leading Successful Synagogue Change" Day-Long Program
›Rabbi Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi, N '95, on the Declaration of the State of Israel
›Los Angeles Campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Receives First-Ever California Certification in Jewish Day School Education from State
›New Book Answers Jewish Questions about Islam - An Introduction to Islam for Jews by Reuven Firestone, HUC-JIR Professor
›Modern Jews Engage the New Testament by Rabbi Michael J. Cook, Ph.D., HUC-JIR Professor
›IJSO and Kalsman Institute Co-Sponsor 'Teaching Inclusive Jewish Sexual Ethics' Lunch-and-Learn at HUC-JIR/LA
›HUC-JIR Student Wins Photo Contest
›Israel Turns 60, Many Remember - The Enquirer
›Israeli Reform Jews Celebrate First Non-Orthodox Synagogue Built with Government Funding - MSNBC
›Reform Jews Open Israel's First State-Funded Non-Orthodox Synagogue - Haaretz
›First State-Funded Reform Synagogue to Go Up in Modi'in - The Jerusalem Post
›At 60, Israel Calls to Jewish Americans - Detroit Free Press
›World Union Coordinates Fifth Annual Pesach Project in FSU
›Reform Student on Track to Become the First Black Female Rabbi
›La Torah au Féminin - Hayom (PDF, in French)
›Community Mourns 'Lion of a Man' - New Jersey Jewish Standard
›A Dialog Between Faiths - St. Clair County Journal
›URJ Eisner Camp to Commemorate 50 Years - Over 1,000 People Expected to Attend Weekend Celebration
›Rosalyn A. Engelman: "Dry Tears" at HUC-JIR/NY Museum Opens May 14th
›New Cultural Women's Program Monday, May 19, With Jewish Family Service
›HUC-JIR Graduation Honors Jewish Leaders, Alumni, and Graduating Class of 2008 at Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York
›Author Anita Diamant, Honorary Doctorate Recipient, Delivered Graduation Address on Minhag America at HUC-JIR/NY Graduation Ceremonies
›Sigmund Ronell Balka Awarded Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, at HUC-JIR Graduation Ceremonies
›Robert M. Heller, Past Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Union for Reform Judaism, Awarded Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Graduation Ceremonies in New York
›Dr. Nechama Tec, Holocaust Scholar and Sociologist, Awarded Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, at HUC-JIR Graduation Ceremonies
›Central Conference of American Rabbis Holds Historic Convention in Cincinnati and Memorable Study Sessions at HUC-JIR's Cincinnati Campus; American Jewish Archives Honors 36 Years of Women in the Rabbinate with Establishment of "Documenting the History of Women in the Rabbinate" Archival Collection
›Highlights of the WUPJ and HUC-JIR Pesach Project
›U.S. Jewish Leaders Call for Boycott of Beijing Olympics – Haaretz
›Rabbis' Dispute Exposes Communal Rift on Labor - The Forward
›As Jewish Communities Unite, Disconnects Persist – The Jewish Journal
›HUC-JIR Museum in New York Hosts Rosalyn Engelman – Art Knowledge News
›Women's Torah Commentary a Milestone Publication – The Canadian Jewish News
›'Simple Twist of Fate' Finds Meaning in Artist's Work – The Jewish Journal
›Where Do You Stand? – Interfaith Family
›Holocaust Remembrance Program at HUC-JIR/NY, Co-Sponsored by Workmen's Circle and 3GNY, Commemorated the 65th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
›HUC-JIR Rabbinical Student Wins International Award
›HUC-JIR/NY Students to be Ordained and Invested Sunday, May 4
›Rosalyn A. Engelman: "Dry Tears" at HUC-JIR/NY Museum Opens May 14th
April, 2008
›Rabbi David Ellenson, Ph.D., to Speak at Israel President Shimon Peres's First Annual Presidential Conference, Facing Tomorrow
›HUC-JIR/NY Students to Graduate April 30th at Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York; Anita Diamant to Speak
›Team Unveils Mideast Archaeology Peace Plan (PDF)
›Holocaust Remembrance Program at HUC-JIR/NY Features Novelist Thane Rosenbaum and Klezmer Violinist Alicia Svigals; Co-Sponsored by Workmen's Circle and 3GNY
›Rabbi Jeremy Schneider to Participate in "Religion and Society: A Dialogue" in Egypt and Syria
›HUC-JIR's Institute for Judaism and Sexual Orientation Supports Faith Leaders for the Freedom to Marry
›Gay, Jewish and Proud: Some Jews Plan to Infuse Gay Pride into Passover This Year
›HUC-JIR SSM Faculty and Alumni to Perform G.F. Handel's Israel In Egypt Sunday, May 4, 2008 at 3:00 p.m. at Temple Israel of New Rochelle, NY
›Rosalyn A. Engelman: "Dry Tears" at HUC-JIR/NY Museum Opens May 14th
›Sable Joins HUC-JIR as Director of Development - Cleveland Jewish News
›Jewish Voters Still Have Questions About Obama - US News and World Report
›Chicago Theological Seminary Establishes Jewish Studies Chair - Sun Herald
›Women Talking Torah - Lilith Magazine
›New Torah Commentary Gives Miriam Her Due - The Star Ledger
›Women Having Greater Role in Traditional Passover Seders - The Press-Enterprise
›A Rabbi's Fresh Look at Passover - The East Hampton Star
›Hillel Aims for Pluralistic, Traditional Balance at Seder - Columbia Spectator
›Amy Hertz Named Assistant Rabbi at Rodef Shalom - The Jewish Chronicle of Pittsburgh
›Rabbi Appointed to New Position at Emory
›HUC-JIR President David Ellenson, Ph.D., Board of Governors Member Rabbi David Posner, and other Alumni Listed as Newsweek's Top Influential Rabbis in America
›HUC-JIR Students Celebrate Passover with Communities in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine
›Military Chaplaincy Rabbinical School Scholarship Offered at HUC-JIR
›HUC-JIR Students and Alumni Participate in Ride for Reform
›Join HUC-JIR Excavations at Tel Dan
›GLBT Haggadah Tells Passover Story Anew
›Four Daughters: Wise, Angry, Simple and Unable to Enquire
›Guidebook to Understanding Liberation of the Jews - The New York Times
›Archaeologists' Group Proposes Safekeeping of Middle East Artifacts - The Chronicle of Higher Education
›New Haggadahs Bring Fresh Approaches to Celebration - The Jewish Journal
›Tibet Takes Its Place at the Seder Table - The Jewish Week
›Rabbi David Ellenson Joined Albany-Area Rabbis to Honor Memories of Rabbis Isaac Mayer and Stephen Wise
›Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk, Ph.D., Chancellor Emeritus of HUC-JIR, Honored at CCAR Conference
›Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman Dies at 89
›Dr. David Kaufman Nominated as Outstanding Teacher and Mentor by USC
›Department of Youth Programs to Host High School Leadership Conference
›Zohar Volume from HUC-JIR/NY's Klau Library Featured in New York Times Magazine
›Spare-Rib Scholars Unearth Scripture Bias – London Times
›US Archaeologists Bridge Israeli-Arab Gap – Jerusalem Post
›Keeping Faith – Hartford Courant
›Chasing the Passover Bunny – The Forward
›Department of Outreach Education to Feature Dr. Mark Kligman at Lunchtime Scholar Series, April 30, 2008
›HUC-JIR SSM Faculty and Alumni to Perform G.F. Handel's Israel In Egypt Sunday, May 4, 2008 at 3:00 p.m. at Temple Israel of New Rochelle, NY
›Israel at 60: Lecture at HUC-JIR/LA by Yaffa Weisman, May 14, 2008
›What We Talk About When We Talk About God – The Forward
›HUC-JIR Student Life
›HUC-JIR Announces 2008 Ordination, Investiture, Graduate, and Honorary Degree Recipients
›National Invitation for HUC-JIR Ordination, Investiture, and Graduation Ceremonies in Cincinnati, Los Angeles, and New York, are Available On-line
›Steve Cohen on 'Seeking a Third Way to Respond to the Challenge of Intermarriage'
›J.J. Goldberg, Editorial Director of The Forward, Speaks to HUC-JIR/NY Students on Jewish Politics: What Difference Does It Make?
›Dr. Steven Windmueller on 'The Jewish Communities of the Western United States'
›Imam Seeks 'Real Connections' – The Jewish Week
›Reform Rabbis Renew Debate on Officiating at Intermarriages – JTA
›Revealing God's Female Voice – Haaretz
›New Book Blasts Gender Inequity, Seeks Change in Organizations – JTA
›CCAR Opened Sunday in Cincinnati – The Enquirer
›What Women Bring to the Rabbinate – The Cleveland Jewish News
›Retired Rabbis in Spotlight – Chicago Jewish News (PDF)
›Smash the Glass Ceiling in the Communal World – The New Jersey Jewish News
›Rabbi David Ellenson, Ph.D., to Speak at Temple Israel of New Rochelle April 11, 2008
›Cinema Judaica: The Epic Cycle (1947-1971) on View at HUC-JIR/NY Museum; Opening Reception and Lecture April 9, 2008
›Cinema Judaica at HUC-JIR/NY Museum is Manhattan "City Pick" in Time Out New York
›Reform College Students Attend Shabbaton at Kibbutz
›Gerald Bubis, HUC-JIR Professor Emeritus and Founding Director of SJCS, Publishes Guidebook for Non-Profit Organizational Management
March, 2008
›Dr. Michael Marmur Presents Keynote Address at World Union for Progressive Judaism's Biennial Conference in Vienna
›Dr. Ruth Westheimer Speaks to HUC-JIR/NY Students
›Dr. Steven Cohen on American Jewry and Interfaith Marriages; Tour of HUC-JIR's Excavations at Tel Dan on Shalom TV - Free Video on Demand Coast to Coast
›Reconciliation Should Be In the Air – Newsday
›Jewish Leaders Debate Results of New CJP Intermarriage Study – The Jewish Advocate
›Religion Panel Seeks Fresh Inroads into Comprehending the 'Other' – The Jewish Exponent
›Ahasuerus' First Wife Reappears as a Feminist Role Model – Haaretz
›Stars of David – The Jewish Exponent
›Delectable New Book Combines History, Biography, Compassion, and Cooking
›Attention Rabbinical Alumni: Attending the CCAR Conference? Join HUC-JIR and Help Recruit the Next Generation of Jewish Professionals on Monday at 12:15 p.m.
›Cinema Judaica: The Epic Cycle (1947-1971) on View at HUC-JIR/NY Museum; Opening Reception and Lecture April 9, 2008
›After 2,000 Years: "Chumash with the Daughters of Rashi's Commentary" Event Launches Groundbreaking Women's Torah Commentary in Tel Aviv
›HUC-JIR/NY Traveling Museum Exhibition "Waldsee 1944" in Cleveland
›One for the Ages: The Washington Jewish Week Features HUC-JIR/NY Museum Traveling Exhibition 'Art of Aging'
›Cinema Judaica: The Epic Cycle (1947-1971) on View at HUC-JIR/NY Museum; Opening Reception and Lecture April 9, 2008
›Rabbi David Ellenson, Ph.D., President of HUC-JIR, Will Receive Honorary Degree at the College of William and Mary
›Rabbi David Ellenson Memorializes Victims of Yeshivat Mercaz Harav Terrorist Attack
›CCAR to Meet in Cincinnati; HUC-JIR Faculty to Lead Study Sessions
›FSU Netzer Leaders Join Educators at Annual Jerusalem Conference
›A Very Modern Megillah – Megillat Esther by David Wander at HUC-JIR Museum in New York – The Jewish Press
›The Sacrifices One Makes: Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman in The Jewish Week
›Temple Shalom's Woman Rabbi is Southwest Florida's First – Naples Daily News
›A Noted Rabbi Remembered – Rabbi David Lieb, San Pedro Jewish Leader, was Active in Community
›HUC-JIR School of Sacred Music Students, Faculty, and Alumni to Perform at "Cantors on Second Avenue" March 30, 2008 (PDF)
›Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, Ph.D., Will be Scholar-in-Residence at Temple Beth El
›HUC-JIR School of Sacred Music Students to Join with Jewish Theological Seminary Cantorial Students at April 1st Concert
›HUC-JIR/NY Venue for "Exodus Revolution" Program
›DeLeT Presents an Afternoon with Ron Berger at HUC-JIR/LA, April 14, 2008 (PDF)
›HUC-JIR/LA Scholar-in-Residence to Discuss "Kaddish and the Poetry of Mourning"
›The 2008 Dr. Fritz Bamberger Memorial Lecture, "Opening the Door to the Deep": Creating a Women's Torah Commentary, Held at Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York March 6, 2008
›Are Jews Less Attached to Israel? Maybe Not – The Forward
›HUC-JIR Students at Year-in-Israel Program Express Condolences to Mercaz HaRav Community
›Jewish and Presbyterian Seminary Leaders Meet at HUC-JIR/NY to Explore Cooperative Initiatives
›HUC-JIR/NY Rabbinical Students Meet with Islamic Cultural Center Students for Two-Day Program
›Women Urge Larger Role in Easing World's Ills – The Chicago Tribune
›The Art of Aging – The Contra Costa Times
›Intersections: A Celebration of Performing and Visual Arts, Artist's Reception, Monday, March 17, 2008
›Reception Honoring Fourteen Chicago-Area Rabbis with New HUC-JIR Student Scholarship on April 3, 2008; Rabbi David Ellenson, Ph.D. to Present
›HUC-JIR Student Reports on Interfaith Trip to Poland
›HUC-JIR's Miller High School Students Visit Metropolitan Museum of Art
›Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman's My People's Passover Haggadah: Traditional Texts, Modern Commentaries, Volumes 1 and 2 Nominated for Sophie Brody Medal
›Researcher Says Lost Ark of the Covenant Found – The Long Beach Press Telegram
›Q&A With Judy Chicago – The St. Louis Jewish Light
›Sacred Spaces of Greater Cincinnati Documentary Features HUC-JIR Alum; Plum Street Temple
›Travels in American Jewish History: AJA Trip to Denver May 21-25, 2008 (PDF)
›Lunchtime Scholar Series at HUC-JIR/Cincinnati Open to Public (PDF)
›Summer Modern Hebrew Institute at HUC-JIR/NY Offers Four Courses for All Levels
›The Whole Megillah: New Images from an Old Book, Drawings by David Wander, Opens at HUC-JIR/NY with Reception and Lecture on Thursday, March 13, 2008
›Winifred Louise Barrows Died at Age 88
›Rabbi Shena Potter Jaffee, Regional Director of Admissions and Recruitment at HUC-JIR/Cincinnati, Leads Recruitment Efforts throughout Midwest
›HUC-JIR Alumni Council Meets at New York Campus
›Sheri Sable Named Director of Development, Midwest Region, at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati
›Upcoming and Recent HUC-JIR Faculty Lectures
February, 2008
›Is This a Job for a Nice Jewish Boy or Girl? You Bet It Is! – The Jewish Journal
›FSU Rabbis Gather In Jerusalem for Annual Seminar
›Dr. Alfred Gottschalk Delivered Rabbi Nathan A. Perilman Memorial Sermon-Lecture at Temple Emanu-El in NY
›Rabbi Ruth Alpers Certified as Full CPE Supervisor
›Kalsman Institute on Judaism and Health's "Judaism, Health, and Healing for Physicians" Launched in Phoenix
›Leadership Institute Opens New Cohort; Holds Alumni Network Symposium
›The Myth of the Trefa Banquet: American Culinary Culture and the Radicalization of Food Policy in American Reform Judaism by Lance J. Sussman (PDF)
›HUC-JIR Funds Muslim Scholar's Rescue – The Jewish Journal
›Changing Their Tune – The Jewish Week
›L.A.'s Latino Mayor Welcomed as One of the Tribe – The Forward
›Adoptive Jewish Families Head Back to China – The Forward
›The Torah: A Women's Commentary Editor, Contributors, Featured at Panel Thursday, March 6, 2008 at Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York
›Rochelle Rubinstein: Marginalia to Open at HUC-JIR/NY March 11, 2008
›Dr. Rick Sarason Leads On-line Session March 3rd-28th; Available for HUC-JIR Alumni
›Upcoming HUC-JIR Faculty Lectures
›HUC-JIR/LA Founder's Day Observed; Focus on RHSOE
›Marginalia, An Installation of Printed, Painted, and Carved Wood Panels by Rochelle Rubinstein
›Women Take on the Torah – The Christian Science Monitor
›Why A Women's Torah Commentary? Andrea Weiss Writes Guest Editorial in The Jerusalem Post
›Religion Today – The Associated Press – Features HUC-JIR/Jerusalem Alumna
›Travels in American Jewish History: AJA Trip to Denver May 21-25, 2008 (PDF)
›The RHSOE Alumni Association Celebrates Milestones
›Dr. Eugene Borowitz, HUC-JIR Professor, at Temple Shaaray Tefila in New York, March 10, 2008 (PDF)
›The Torah: A Women's Commentary Featured at Dr. Fritz Bamberger Memorial Lecture "Opening the Door to the Deep" Creating a Women's Torah Commentary, Thursday, March 6, 2008 at Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York
›Albanian Muslim Rescuers During the Holocaust: Photographs by Norman Gershman – Opening Reception February 28, 2008 at HUC-JIR/NY
›HUC-JIR/New York to Celebrate Founders Day March 13, 2008 with Talk by Rabbi David Ellenson, Ph.D.
›Fiddler on the Roof Lyricist Sheldon Harnick and Conductor Judith Clurman Present to HUC-JIR/NY Community
›Hana Safrai, HUC-JIR Professor, Dies in Jerusalem
›The Whole Megillah: New Images from an Old Book, Drawings by David Wander
›Albanian Muslim Rescuers During the Holocaust: Photographs by Norman Gershman
›Gap Grows Between Orthodox and Others – The Jewish Journal
›Jewish Book Council Announces Awards; Judges include Rabbi David Ellenson
›First Israeli Progressive Congregation Celebrates Golden Jubilee
›Extraordinary Nostalgia – The Forward
›Former HUC-JIR Professor Hollander Dies in Jerusalem
›The Academy for Adult Interfaith Studies at HUC-JIR/Cincinnati to Offer Lunchtime and Evening Classes
›Judith Margolis, Artist in Residence at HUC-JIR/LA
›Kalsman Institute On Judaism and Health Update
›Report on the Academic Coalition for Jewish Bioethics
January, 2008
›2008 Dr. Fritz Bamberger Memorial Lecture "Opening the Door to the Deep" – Creating a Women's Torah Commentary Thursday March 6, 2008 at Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York
›Fiddler on the Roof Lyricist Sheldon Harnick and Conductor Judith Clurman at SSM's Masters Series
›Peter J. Weidhorn Elected Chair of the Union for Reform Judaism; Inducted onto HUC-JIR Board of Governors
›HUC-JIR Alum to be Featured on ABC's 20-20 Next Friday Night
›Rare Snowfall in Jerusalem: Photographer Documents a Covered HUC-JIR/Jerusalem
›Dr. Gary P. Zola to Launch Lincoln Bicentennial in Ohio, Friday February 8, 2008
›Thousands Lay Tefillin in World Wide Wrap – JTA
›Eye of the Collector – Tulsa World
›Rabbi to Offer Support Group with a Jewish Flavor – The Jewish Standard
›Workshop Looks at Liturgy – The Enquirer
›Dallas Native Commissioned as Navy Chaplain in Israel
›Gold Officially the Man at the Federation – The Jewish Journal
›Spreading the Word – The Jerusalem Post
›Solar Panels, Radio Station Keeps Jewish Camps Current – The Jewish Journal
›A Life Well Lived in Writing Jewishly – New Jersey Jewish Standard
›Super Tuesday: Snapshots From Across the Country – The Forward
›Academy for Adult Interfaith Studies Spring Schedule Available
›Rabbi David Ellenson, Ph.D., and Rabbi Mark Washofsky, Ph.D. Publish Essays in Napoleon's Influence On Jewish Law: The Sanhedrin of 1807 and Its Modern Consequences
›Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk Presents at Raul Hilberg Symposium Memorial; Delivers Dedicatory Sermon at NAORR
›My People's Prayer Book Series, Edited by Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman and Published by Jewish Lights Publishing, Wins National Jewish Book Award
›Prominent Scholars Meet in Cincinnati for HUC-UC Ethics Center, the Catacoustic Consort and The College Conservatory of Music's "Lamentations: Music, Text and Interpretation"
›Fiddler on the Roof Lyricist Sheldon Harnick and Conductor Judith Clurman at HUC-JIR School of Sacred Music's Masters Series, February 20, 2008
›Be All the Rabbi You Can Be – Jewish Week Feature of HUC-JIR Military Chaplaincy Program
›Female Torah Scribe Lives Off the Land, Religiously – The Forward
›Miles Lerman, a Holocaust Museum Founder, and HUC-JIR Doctor of Humane Letters Recipient, Died at Age 88
›Rabbi Wolli Kaelter Died at Age 93
›First African-American Female Rabbi-To-Be is Breaking Barriers with Personal Story – NBC
›Temple Emanu-El Hosts Legal Scholar – The New Jersey Jewish News
›'Heal thyself': Program to Help Physicians Reflect and Renew – Jewish News of Greater Phoenix (PDF)
›'Silent Majority' of America's Jews Wants Two State Solution, Diaspora Leader Says – Haaretz
› Jerusalem Concert Review – Jerusalem Post
›Dr. William Cutter to be Honored at RHSOE Alumni Kallah February 2nd
›Final Chance to See Fall Museum Exhibitions at HUC-JIR/NY January 27th
›HUC-JIR/LA Considers Expansion – The Jewish Journal
›Digging the Bible – Slate.com
›Martin Luther King Jr. Day Events Across Greater Cleveland – The Plain Dealer
›A Proud Day for HUC-JIR – Express Cincinnati
›Biblical Marginalia – Nextbook
›Rhea Hirsch School of Education Alumni Kallah and Webinars in February
›Homosexuality in the Middle Ages with Maggie Anton, Author of the Rashi's Daughters Series (PDF)
›The Academy for Adult Interfaith Studies at HUC-JIR/Cincinnati Announces Spring 2008 Courses (PDF)
›Stanley Gold Speaks on Role of Lay Leadership
›A Torah of One's Own: At Long Last, Women's Voices Heard – Jewish News Weekly
›HUC-JIR Recruiter at University of Oregon Hillel
›The Jewish Americans, Featuring Rabbi David Ellenson, Ph.D., Airs on PBS
›My Day with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: Rabbi Bernie King Tells His Story Marching Into Montgomery
›Two Chupahs for Two Rabbis – Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton
›The Jewish Americans, Featuring Rabbi David Ellenson, Ph.D., Airs on PBS
›Year-in-Israel Students to Attend Mid-Year Colloquium January 30th to February 2nd
›Life, Faith, and Cancer by HUC-JIR Alums
›Leading Islamic Scholar to Join HUC-JIR/LA and USC Faculty for Spring 2008 Term
›HUC-JIR Communal Service Alumni "Imagine the Unimaginable"
›The Milton and Hattie Kutz Seminar, The Advancement of Teaching and Learning American Jewish History: A Program for the Education Students of HUC-JIR to Bring Together Education Students
›DeLeT Receives Major Foundation Grant
›NFTY-EIE Teens Visit HUC-JIR/Jerusalem
›Upcoming Concerts at HUC-JIR/Jerusalem
›The Power of a Hyphen – The Jewish Week
›Van Leer Institute to Host First Ever Reform Judaism Conference – Ynet
›A Rabbi of His Time, With a Charisma That Transcends It – The New York Times
› Gal-On Hopes to have a Reform Rabbi on its List – The Jerusalem Post
› Progressing Slowly – The Jerusalem Post
› 'Religious' Pilot Brings Reform Movement to IAF – The Jerusalem Post
›The Top 10 Stories You Missed in 2007: American Jews Turn Away From Israel – Foreign Policy
›For a Quiet Religious Dialogue – Haaretz
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