Rabbi Uri Regev, Esq., J '86,
Chief Executive Officer, Hiddush — For Religious
Freedom and Equality and recipient of the Doctor of Divinity degree, honoris causa
Jerusalem Ordination and Academic Convocation Address
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The public faces great challenges: peace and security, education, urban
development and environmental conservation, the renewal of the Zionist
vision, religion and state, minorities, refugees and foreign workers and
many others. We assembled here at this festive event — Israelis, Diaspora
leaders, and members of the HUC-JIR Board of Governors — are all partners
in the desire to advance the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic
state. In this regard, we are no different from millions in Israel and the
Diaspora who confront these questions. We need to ask, what is our
uniqueness, what added value do we bring to this conversation?”
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Eleven graduates of the
Sugyot Chaim
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Life Texts — Talmudic Bibliotherapy Program, sponsored by the
Blaustein Center for Pastoral Care and Counseling, received their certificates:
Ada Ahiman, Tova Birnbaum,
Vered Jaia Bogomoski Yahalom, Fruma Brickner, Dr. Hagit Dee-Noor, Rabbi Judith Edelman-Green, J ’09,
Dina Hertz, Uri Lam, Yehudith Miller-Zamir, Irit Tunik,
and
Rachel Walfish.
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