Become a Cantor
Join Cantor Jill Abramson, Director, Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music for a panel discussion with students and alumni. There will be a live stream student practicum prior to the […]
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Postponed HUC Connect – Prooftexts and HUC Connect Present “This Is Not the National Theatre, Here We Study Talmud”: Performing the Talmud in the Television Show Shenayim Oḥazin
OnlineThe Israeli Educational Television series Shenayim oḥazin, which aired in 1984–85, was meant to aid the instruction of Talmud in junior high school.
Explore a Master’s in Educational Leadership
Join Rabbi Dr. Laura Novak Winer for a discussion on leading change in Jewish education and learn about the master’s in educational leadership offered at HUC.
Lunch and Learn: An Insider’s View of the Newly Installed Galleries
Join curatorial consultant Abby Schwartz and preparator and collections manager Sheri Besso for a behind-the-scenes look at the reinstallation of the galleries devoted to Torah, Life Cycle, and Holidays and Festivals. A light lunch will be served.
Publication of Building a City and American Hebraist
Please join us to celebrate the publication of two books memorializing our teacher and colleague Dr. Alan Mintz z"l and dedicated to the Hebrew fiction of Nobel Laureate S.Y. Agnon.
The History of Circumcision in the Biblical World
Circumcision is practiced around the world countless times every day for reasons of religious identity and cultural expectation. As our oldest continuously practiced ritual, Jews have always performed circumcision as […]
Printing, Praying, and Performing Jewish Identity in Early Modern Italy: Maḥzor kimḥa d’avishuna with Rabbi Joseph A. Skloot, Ph.D.
In 1540, a group of silk weavers from the city of Bologna, who called themselves “the partners” (ha-shutafim), printed a two-volume compendium of the Jewish liturgy for the yearly worship cycle. This maḥzor (prayer book) included both a commentary on the liturgy by R. Yohanan b. Joseph Treves, entitled Kimha d’avishuna (Flour Milled from Roasted Grain), and a commentary on Tractate Avot of the Mishnah (an oft-quoted anthology of rabbinic wisdom) by R. Obadiah b. Jacob Sforno.
A light catered Kosher lunch will be provided.
Hebrew Books and the Global History of Printing
This talk will consider how the long history of Hebrew printing can transform dominant narratives about the history of the book and the origins of modernity.
Rabbinic Ordination Ceremony
The Rabbinic Ordination of Lana Zilberman Soloway Yael Katz Ben Yitzchak Miriam Klimova
HUC Connect – Illuminating Ecclesiastes Webinar
Artist Debra Band describes how her exquisite calligraphy, micrography, and paintings illuminate the first ever visual interpretation of this entire poetic text.