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	2007-2008 (PDF format) View Cover President's Message A Modern Approach to Mentorship Fostering a New Era in Catholic-Jewish Relations Face to Face, Coast to Coast Supporting Professional Leaders for the Community Strengthening Israel's Progressive Future New Faculty Enrich Teaching Summary Financial Figures
	2006-2007 (PDF format) View Cover President's Message Women of Reform Judaism Support Student Learning Art Enriches Learning New Faculty Enrich Teaching E-Learning at HUC-JIR Building Israel's Progressive Future A Klau Library for the 21st Century Summary Financial Figures
	2005-2006 (FlashPaper format) President's Message Burton Lehman: A Decade of Distinguished Leadership as Chair of the Board of Governors Barbara Benioff Friedman: The First Woman to Chair HUC-JIR's Board of Governors Leadership Training to Transform Communities Student Information System Advances Recruitment and Student Data Art Meets Text in the Midrash Classroom A Library for the 21st Century Emerging Scholars Enrich Teaching Pioneering Pluralism in Israel Summary Financial Figures
	2004-2005 (PDF format) View Cover Letter from the President Vitalizing Community Outreach: The Croll Center for Jewish Learning and Culture L'Dor VaDor: Scholarships Sustain Successive Generations of Rabbis Corporate Commitment Links Campus and Community Compassion as a Catalyst for Change in Israeli Society: The Blaustein Pastoral Counseling Center Introduces Reform Rabbinical Care to Israel's Secular Healthcare and Military Counseling System Pioneering Pluralism in the Jewish State Emerging Scholars Enrich Teaching and Scholarship Technology Transforms Traditional Learning: The Simha and Sara Lainer Beit Midrash Summary Financial Figures
	2003-2004 (PDF format) View Cover Letter from the President Federation Grants Further HUC-JIR's Mission Repairing the World: The Rabbi Jerome K. Davidson Chair in Social Responsibility Mechinah: Preparing Oneself Major Gifts and Master Plan Advance Cincinnati Campus Improvements Student Scholarships Support Study and Establish Meaningful Relationships HUC-JIR in Jersusalem Vitalizes Pluralism in Israel and Former Soviet Union Summary Financial Figures
	2002-2003 (PDF format) View Cover Letter from the President Teaching Through Technology: Online Continuing Education for Alumni Hope and Healing: The Kalsman Institute on Judaism and Health For a Flourishing Future: Four New Rabbis for Israel's Progressive Movement Shared Commitment to a Sacred Journey: Scholarship Support for the Second-Career Student Summary Financial Figures
	2001-2002 (PDF format) View Cover Message from the President and Chair, HUC-JIR Board of Governors The Charge to the New President by Burton Lehman Inagural Address by Rabbi David Ellenson Invocation by Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk Words of Congratulations by Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie and Rabbi Martin S. Weiner Blessing for the Inauguration of Rabbi David Ellenson by Rabbi Laura J. Geller The Inauguration of Rabbi David Ellenson by James O. Freedman Benediction by Rabbi Norman J. Cohen World Jewry: Retrospective and Prospective (Academic Symposium, Paula Hyman, Arthur Hertzberg, David N. Myers, Ruth Gavison) Questions from the Audience Gus Waterman Herrman Presidential Chair Inaugurated Summary Financial Figures
	2000-2001 (PDF format) View Cover Letter from the President The Root of the Word "Rabbi" is Teacher From a Minyan of Men to Women's Studies New Rabbinical Core Curriculum Strengthens Teaching, Learning, and Congregational Impact From Talmud to New Technology The AJA: Where American Jewish History Lives Summary Financial Figures

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2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1997

2009

›	The Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archeology Announces Its Annual Lecture Series at HUC-JIR/Jerusalem
›	New Cohort of Schusterman Rabbinical Fellows Announced
›	HUC President Rabbi David Ellenson Speaks about the FSU Pesach Project
›	HUC-JIR Rabbinical Students Organize the First "Over the Rhine Jewish Benefit," Raising Awareness and $4500 to Support Neighborhood Organizations
›	"An Evening with Debbie & Friends" Benefit Concert Raises $450,000 for School of Sacred Music
›	Dedication of $12.1 Mllion Renovation and Expansion of the Klau Library and the Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati Library Pavilion at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati
›	Dr. Jacob Neusner to Present the 2009 Dr. Fritz Bamberger Memorial Lecture at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York
›	HUC-JIR Launches Planned Giving Website
›	Jim Joseph Foundation Gives $12 Million to Seminaries to Improve Jewish Education - JTA
›	Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Receives Historic, Interdenominational Grant of $3.7 Million from Jim Joseph Foundation
›	The 2009 Dr. Bernard Heller Prize Dr. Arno G. Motulsky, Professor Emeritus, Departments of Medicine and Genome Studies, University of Washington
›	Helen Lieberman, Founder and Honorary President of Ikamva Labantu - Future of Our Nation - South Africa's Largest Community-based NGO Facilitating Positive Social Change Awarded Joseph Prize by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
›	Dr. Steven F. Windmueller Presented with the Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk Chair in Jewish Communal Service

2008

›	HUC's Tribute Dinner Raises $375,000 - The American Israelite (PDF)
›	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
›	DeLeT Receives Major Foundation Grant
›	Schusterman Family Foundation Visiting Israeli Scholar To Speak On Israel: Between Refuge and Redemption
›	The Wexner Foundation Introduces New Fellows

2007

›	HUC-JIR Honors Schwartz at Fundraiser - American Israelite (PDF)
›	Groundbreaking for $11.5 Million Renovation of Klau Library at HUC-JIR/Cincinnati
›	From JTA's Breaking News: Joint leadership institute to award $1.9 million
›	UJA-Federation of New York Awards $1.9 million to the Leadership Institute for Congregational School Principals
›	HUC-JIR/Los Angeles Received Refurbishment Grant from Real Estate Principals Organization of Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles' Real Estate and Construction Division
›	Schusterman Family Foundation Announces Fellowship Program for JTS, HUC-JIR Rabbinical Students
›	Jewish Community Foundation Names First Two Buchalter Student Award Recipients

2006

›	HUC-JIR's 24th Annual Cincinnati Associates Tribute Dinner honoring H. Jerome Lerner (PDF format)

›	Rabbi David Levine, Ph.D., Appointed the Inaugural David and Roslyn Sonabend Associate Professor of Talmud and Halakhah

›	Blaustein Center for Pastoral Counseling at HUC-JIR/Jerusalem introduces groundbreaking pastoral care training program in Israel

›	Blanche and Irving Laurie Lecture in Jewish Women's Studies presented by Dr. Yael S. Feldman

›	Bernadotte Memorial Lecture with Ambassador Dennis Ross

›	HUC-JIR Announces the Creation of the Bonnie and Daniel Tisch Rabbinical Fellows Program

›	Rhea Hirsch School of Education Launches New Concentration in Day School Education in Partnership with Avi Chai Foundation

›	UJA-Federation of NY Awards $1.6 Million to the Experiment in Congregational Education

›	Dr. Samuel Atlas Memorial Lecture - Dr. Rachel Adler to speak on loss of the art of lament in our time - at HUC-JIR New York

2005

›	"Inaugural Dr. Fritz Bamberger Memorial Lecture: Dr. Arthur Hertzberg," in Chronicle Issue 65 - available in PDF format

›	June 5th Dedication of Edwin A. Malloy Education Bldg. Dedication of the new Edwin A. Malloy Education Building at the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Sunday, June 5 at 10 am

›	HUC-JIR students conduct seders in Former Soviet Union with support of Schusterman Foundation - JTA

›	$12 Million In Gifts Make History Possible: HUC-JIR To Build Unparalleled Facilities On Cincinnati Campus

2004

›	$6.5 Million Gift from The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati Supports New Development Planned for HUC-JIR

›	$1.8 Million Grant Awarded Towards Creation of Groundbreaking Trans-Denominational Leadership Institute for Synagogue School Principals

›	$5 Million Gift from Manuel D. and Rhoda Mayerson New Development Planned for Hebrew Union College

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The Dr. Paul M. and Trudy Steinberg Distinguished Professorship in Human Relations and Counseling Inaugurated

Dr. William Cutter, Director of the Lee and Irving Kalsman Institute on Judaism and Health, Professor of Education and Modern Hebrew Literature, and Lecturer in Chaplaincy Named the Inaugural Steinberg Distinguished Professor

›	Press release

›	Chronicle, Issue 64 - available in PDF format

›	Video/Audio Presentations from the dedication of the Steinberg Distinguished Professorship by Rabbi David Ellenson, Dr. Paul Steinberg, Dr. William Cutter, Dr. Lewis Barth, and Professor Sara S. Lee.

›	Chronicle magazine article: "On View at HUC-JIR's Museums" Chronicle, Issue 64, available in PDF format

›	UJA-Federation of New York Awards $1.05 Million to the Experiment in Congregational Education Grant for The RE-IMAGINE Project Will Improve Quality and Impact of Religious Schools in Greater New York Area

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Chronicle magazine article:
"The Rabbi Michael Matuson Professorship for Emerging Scholars Inaugural Lecture, 'Setting Examples: Role Models and Heroes in Medieval Halakhah' by Dr. Jonathan Cohen, Rabbi Michael Matuson Professor and Director, HUC-UC Center for the Study of Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems"

›	Chronicle magazine article: "On View at HUC-JIR's Museums" Chronicle, Issue 63, available in PDF format

2003

›	In a Special Announcement for Veteran's Day, The Farmer Family Foundation and Cintas Sponsor WW II Liberators Testimonies in Mapping Our Tears; "The Men in Uniform"

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The Rabbi Michael Matuson Professorship for Emerging Scholars Inaugurated at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion

(Dr. Jonathan Cohen, Assistant Professor of Talmud and Halachic Literature, and Director of the HUC-University of Cincinnati Center for the Study of Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems Named as the Inaugural Matuson Professor)

›	Acclaimed Classical Musicians, The Schulhoff Quartet, to Perform at Benefit Concert for Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion's Scholarship Fund

›	Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati Awarded $500,000 Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

›	Chronicle magazine article: "The Miller High School Honors Program" Chronicle, Issue 62 - available in PDF format

›	"On View at HUC-JIR's Museums" Chronicle, Issue 62 - available in PDF format

›	Chronicle magazine article: "Barbara and Stephen Friedman Chair in Liturgy, Worship, and Ritual Inaugurated" Chronicle, Issue 61 - available in PDF format

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›	Founders' Day Address, March 16, 2003: "Searching for a Second Course," by Dr. Lawrence A. Hoffman, Inaugural Recipient of the Barbara and Stephen Friedman Chair in Liturgy, Worship, and Ritual

›	Chronicle magazine article: "New Directions for Jewish Education: The Rhea Hirsch School of Education" Chronicle, Issue 61 - available in PDF format

2002

›	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

›	Rabbi David Ellenson to Be Honored at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion's 20th Annual Cincinnati Associates Tribute Dinner

›	Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion's New York School of Education Awarded a Covenant Foundation Grant and a UJA-Federation Grant

›	Chronicle magazine article: "New Directions for Jewish Education: The New York School of Education" Chronicle, Issue 60 - available in PDF format

2001

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Ilene and Stanley P. Gold, distinguished benefactors and community leaders, are honored at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion's (HUC-JIR) 125th Anniversary Gala

Leaders of Entertainment, Business, Government and Religion come together to raise more than $1.6 Million for HUC-JIR. The Gold Family presents an additional challenge gift of $500,000 for the creation of the Martin Gang Scholarship Fund for HUC-JIR

›	Cincinnati Associates Tribute Dinner Raises Over $1 Million in Support of Student Scholarships and Holocaust Education

›	HUC-JIR to Honor the Hales and the Westons

›	Agnes and Rabbi Erwin Herman Establish Virtual Resource Center for HUC-JIR's Sexual Orientation Issues in Congregations and Community Initiative

›	Kalsman Family Endows HUC-JIR's Kalsman Institute on Judaism and Health

›	"The Kalsman Institute on Judaism and Health" in Chronicle Issue 59 - available in PDF format

›	Chronicle magazine article: "Psychodynamics and Pastoral Counseling The Blaustein Center for Pastoral Counseling provides HUC-JIR students with new opportunities for professional development and spiritual growth," in Chronicle, Issue 59 - available in PDF format

›	"Teaching Tolerance The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education and HUC-JIR/Cincinnati memorializes the Holocaust in order to combat injustice and prejudice today," in Chronicle, Issue 59 - available in PDF format

›	"On View," in Chronicle, Issue 59 - available in PDF format

2000

›	Blaustein Foundation Establishes Path-Breaking Pastoral Counseling Center at Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion's New York School

1999

›	Acclaimed Pianist Ory Shihor to Perform in Concert to Benefit HUC-JIR

›	Fellner Foundation Awards Grant to HUC-JIR Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology

›	Chronicle magazine article: "For the First Time Ever: The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon" Chronicle, Issue 58 - available in PDF format

›	"The Inaugural Rabbi Sally J. Priesand Visiting Professor of Jewish Women's Studies: Dr. Tikva Frymer-Kensky" in Chronicle Issue 58 - available in PDF format

›	Chronicle magazine article: A Living Legacy: The Groundbreaking for the Edwin A. Malloy Education Building" Chronicle, Issue 58 - available in PDF format

›	Chronicle magazine article: "Jewish Day Schools for the 21st Century" A groundbreaking project designed to strengthen Reform and liberal community day schools across North America. Chronicle, Issue 58 - available in PDF format

›	"Program Support" in Chronicle Issue 58 - available in PDF format

›	"Scholarship Support" in Chronicle Issue 58 - available in PDF format

›	"The Gift of a Torah Scroll" in Chronicle Issue 57

1997

›	Deborah and Russell Silverman Chair in Cantorial Arts and Composition Established at School of Sacred Music in New York

›	HUC-JIR Announces Campaign to Endow the Rabbi Sally J. Priesand Visiting Professorship of Jewish Women's Studies in Honor of Twenty-Five Years of Women in the Rabbinate

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