Alumni from all of HUC-JIR’s programs and campuses are invited! Consider new ideas and texts, deepen your knowledge of Torah and Jewish wisdom, study with gifted teachers, explore HUC-JIR’s new curricula, and reconnect with old friends and make new ones.
The students of the Pines School of Graduate Studies invite you to student-led conference presenting some of the research conducted over the course of their tenure at PSGS. This event […]
In her opera premiere, Iris Karlin, Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music ‘24 has redeveloped the story (as both composer and librettist) of Yehudit through a modern feminist lens into a musical midrash (creative interpretation), determined to bring forth and reclaim the Chanukah legend.
Join us for a behind-the-scenes exploration of the American Jewish Archives and Klau Library of Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion.
In this introductory lecture to the exhibition, Tales of Imaginary Creatures in Medieval and Renaissance Rare Books and Manuscripts, we explore the forms and functions of these fantastic beings.
This lecture will examine the biblical portrayal of the ancient Israelites’ relationships with their neighbors through the stories of Rahab, Samson, and David.
This talk will offer a new idea about why ancient Israelite scribes turned to this ancient Mesopotamian work of political allegory as a model for the Moses story and explore the implications for how we understand the exodus, as well as the character of its hero.
Join us for a fascinating event in which Christine Thomas will present the findings of her new book, Royal Women at Ugarit: Reconceiving the House of the Father, inviting you to travel to Ugarit in Late Bronze Age Syria to see how royal women were positioned at the center of their political world.
