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.
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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 a symbol of our covenanted relationship with God. As it often is today, this religious rite must have been experienced as perplexing and fraught with […]
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.
HUC Connect – Confronting Controversy on Stage
OnlineArt has the ability to challenge the status quo and encourage us to change our way of thinking. Several pieces produced by The Braid, exemplify this idea, such as True Colors and Sweet Tea and the Southern Jew. The Braid is a story company and non-profit organization grounded in Jewish culture and experience. Representatives from these works will engage in discussion about their connection to their monologues, internal issues they faced when preparing these pieces, and the positive and more difficult reactions they’ve received from audience members about these pieces.
Launch the Publication of Brighton Beach Bible
The Heller Museum, Jewish Art Salon, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, and Canvas invite you to celebrate the publication of BRIGHTON BEACH BIBLE by Joel Silverstein, essay by Ori Z. Soltes