Microfilm of most of the
Klau
Library
’
s Hebrew manuscripts col-
lection was digitized and posted on
HebrewBooks.org
.
The world-
renowned collection of early Christian
Hebraica formed the basis for the ex-
hibit “Miracle Within a Miracle:
Johannes Reuchlin and the Jewish
Book Controversy,” which premiered
at the University of Illinois and is
now on display at the Klau Library.
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Over 500 Israelis participated in
the all-night learning at the
Tikkun
Layl Shavuot
,
a joint program with Beit
Shmuel (World Union for Progressive
Judaism) and the Israel Religious
Action Center of the Israel Movement
for Progressive Judaism, with the
support of the New Israel Fund.
The Leona Aronoff Rabbinic
Mentoring Program
,
made
possible by a generous gift from
Leona Aronoff-Sadacca, matched
alumni mentors with second- and
third-year students, engaged lay
leaders and alumni supervising
fourth- and fifth-year student
pulpits, and offered alumni
opportunities for ongoing
professional development.
Capstone Projects in the
School of Jewish Nonprofit
Management
by second-year
students produced new research
on bullying in Jewish day schools,
Jewish couples negotiating differ-
ences of observance, organizations
focused on Iranian Jewish young
adults, and engaging the millen-
nial generation in organizational
leadership.
The
HUC-JIR Museum
and the
Irma L. and Abram S. Croll Center
for Jewish Learning and Culture
presented “A Stitch in Time: Provoca-
tive Textiles,” featuring the works of
leading international artists, and circu-
lated the traveling exhibition: “BESA:
Albanian Muslim Rescuers during
the Holocaust” to museums and uni-
versities throughout North America.
The Reform Think Tank
,
a joint project of the URJ, CCAR and
HUC-JIR, was launched with a public forum convening faculty,
Reform Movement lay leaders from throughout North America,
and experts in the area of religion, education, and the media. The
forum explored how technology changes community building and
affiliation, the nature of community in an era of “free” and finan-
cial uncertainty, and the meaning of a denomination/movement
in an anti-institutional culture.
Orientation for new students included
volunteering at the Soup Kitchen, visiting
Temple Emanu-El (the venue for their future
graduation and ordination), and celebrating
Shabbat
at Congregation Rodeph Sholom. It
culminated in the
Kallah
retreat, where new
and returning students and faculty shared
opportunities for community building, study,
and new approaches to worship.
The Jacob Rader Marcus Center
of the American Jewish Archives
was
designated as the permanent repository
of the records of the Union for Reform
Judaism's Religious Action Center of
Reform Judaism (RAC), including case
files concerning the RAC's advocacy on
behalf of major domestic and interna-
tional issues of political, cultural, social,
and economic importance, from 1960
to the present.
UNION
for
REFORM
JUDAISM
The Nelson Glueck School of
Biblical Archaeology community
excavation in Lod
continued for its
fourth season. Due to its great success,
it was expanded this year to include
12
elementary schools with 2500
students and teachers participating.
Adam Cohen,
Logistics Army Ant
, 2009
Perek Shirah mi-Kol ha-Be-ru’im,
HUC Ms 815, Klau Library, HUC-JIR/Cincinnati
