Bringing the Big World into the Little Classroom

Part of the Learning about Learning series hosted by Brandeis University's Mandel Center for Jewish Education, this webinar shares findings from the ongoing Learning and Teaching about What Matters research initiative.

Children of Ruth: Artists Choosing Judaism

Panel discussion with the artists, moderated by Warren Klein, Museum Director & Curator, Herbert & Eileen Bernard Museum of Judaica, Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York. Seventeen artists, from New Zealand, Japan, Hong Kong, Norway, the Netherlands, Canada, and the United States, reflect on their spiritual journeys to Judaism through conversion.

The Collars of RBG Exhibition Opening

Remarks by Elinor Carucci, an award-winning fine art photographer whose work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions worldwide and The New York Times Magazine, New Yorker, Time, W, Aperture, and ARTnews, among others. Carucci’s photographs are also included in prestigious museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Jewish Museum, and the Houston
Museum of Fine Art, among others.

Festival of Song, featuring “The Song of Jonah” Cantata

Temple Israel of the City of New York

Join Hebrew Union College and Temple Israel for a Festival of Song featuring a full performance of "The Song of Jonah," a cantata for soloist, choir, and orchestra. This award-winning piece by Cantor Justin Callis '25 tells the story of the biblical Book of Jonah in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish. Rabbi Gelfand will be recognized for his 50th year in the rabbinate and all his work as an esteemed member of the HUC Board of Governors and over 20 years on the President’s Rabbinic Council.