HUC-JIR is making this opportunity available as part of an ongoing process of teshuvah. The reissuing of documents has been requested by alumni and survivors, and recommended by our Teshuvah Working Group.
New documents are available to all alumni of HUC-JIR who would like one, whether because your documents contained signatures of people who were abusive or caused harm, or because your documents contain gendered language that you would like corrected or changed.
No, for this one-time reissuing of documents, there is no charge.
Reissued documents will have the signatures only of the current President, Provost, and Board Chair of HUC-JIR. They will not have the signatures of any other members of the faculty or administration, past or present.
You will receive your document within 8-12 weeks of submitting your request.
Ordering for reissued documents will be open from October 18, 2023 – February 29, 2024.
Fill out the request form.
Per the change to cantorial language in 2012, all cantorial documents will read “ordained” and not “invested.”
No, you may keep your original documents. We know that individuals will have varying needs and ideas about the reissued documents. Some may choose to hang both documents side by side, or one behind the other, or simply to keep the original document somewhere else for historical purposes. Others may choose to rid themselves of their original document, ritually or otherwise.
With the understanding that alumni have varying needs and concerns, and that there are many paths to healing and repair, we recognize that some alumni may not want new documents. Some have already chosen to blot out the names of individuals who signed their documents, and/or to have a written statement adjacent to their diploma, such as the one available for download here.
