Fall Semester 2022 — Upcoming Events

Fall Semester upcoming events
September 21 at 10:30 am ET | New York/Livestream
Senior Recital – Emily Hoolihan

September 22 at 11:30 am PT | Los Angeles/Livestream
Student Sermon: Nitzavim – Sammy Kanter

September 22 at 5:00-7:00 pm ET | New York
Opening reception for “Street Visions: Europe, 1934 – Photographs by Richard J. Scheuer”
exhibition at the Dr. Bernard Heller Museum >> Register

October 13 at 11:30 am PT | Los Angeles/Livestream
Student Sermon: Hol HaMoed Sukkot – Jessica Jacobs

October 13 at 6:30 pm IT | Holon, Israel
The Annual Story Telling Festival with Rabbi Naamah Kelman, Rabbi Dalia Marx, Ph.D., Rabbi Talia Avnon,
and other alumni celebrating the impact of women rabbis in Israel through song and stories

October 19 at 10:30 am ET | New York/Livestream
DFSSM Practica: Israeli Art Song: Classic and Contemporary – Sierra Fox

October 20 at 12:45 pm ET | Cincinnati
The Klau Library presents Dr. John Kampen’s webinar on
“The Gospel of Matthew: Both Jewish and Sectarian” >> Register

October 20 at 11:30 am PT | Los Angeles/Livestream
Bereishit – Ariel Tovlev

October 22 at 10:30 am ET | Cincinnati/Livestream
Student Sermon: Beresheit – Ashley Englander

October 24 | Jerusalem
Israel Rabbinical Program event honoring the retirement of
Dr. Yehoyada Amir, Professor of Modern Jewish Thought

October 26 at 10:30 am ET | New York/Livestream
DFSSM Practica: Shofarot – Laynie Zell; Zichronot – Iris Karlin

October 27 at 10 am ET | New York/Livestream
Student Sermon: Noach – Kelly Whitehead

October 27 at 11:30 am PT | Los Angeles/Livestream
Student Sermon: Noach – Elias Chajet

October 27 at 5:30-8 pm ET | Cincinnati/Livestream
Opening of “Jewish Cincinnati: A Photographic Record by J. Miles Wolf” at the Skirball Museum

October 29 at 10:30 am ET | Cincinnati/Livestream
Student Sermon: Noach – Ben Rosen

November 2 at 10:30 am ET | New York/Livestream
Senior Recital – Sydney Michaeli

November 3 at 10 am ET | New York/Livestream
Student Sermon: Lekh Lekha – Sivan Rotholtz

November 3 at 11:30 am PT | Los Angeles/Livestream
Student Sermon: Lekh Lekha – Megan Brumer

November 3 at 6 pm ET | New York/Livestream
Celebration of 100th Anniversary of the Jewish Institute of Religion –
with President Andrew Rehfeld and Rabbi Shirley Idelson, former New York Dean and author of
We Shall Build Anew: Stephen S. Wise, the Jewish Institute of Religion,
and the Reinvention of American Liberal Judaism

November 5 at 10:30 am ET | Cincinnati/Livestream
Student Sermon: Lekh Lekha – Anna Meyers Burke

November 9 at 10:30 am ET | New York/Livestream
DFSSM Practica: Neilah: Kaddish Shalem through K’dushat HaShem – Gabe Snyder;
Neilah: Kedushat Hayom through the chatima of Kedushat Hayom – Joe Flaxman

November 10 at 10 am ET | New York/Livestream
Student Sermon: Vayera – Lara Tessler

November 10 at 11:30 am PT | Los Angeles/Livestream
Student Sermon: Vayera – Anna Calamaro

November 10 at 6:00 pm IT | Jerusalem/Livestream
The Jerusalem Ordination and Academic Convocation, featuring rabbinical ordination,
presentation of RIKMA and Sugiyot Chayim certificates, and the presentation of the Doctor of Humane Letters,
honoris causa, to Israeli activist Anat Hoffman, Executive Director of the Israel Religious Action Center
and Director and founding member of Nashot HaKotel, Women of the Wall

November 11 at 10:30 am ET | Cincinnati/Livestream
Student Sermon: Vayera – Remy Liverman

November 13 at 9:00 am IT | Jerusalem
The Opening of the Renovated Taube Family Campus in the presence of
President Herzog and the Mayor’s Office

November 16 at 10:30 am ET | New York/Livestream
Senior Recital – Jordan Goldstein

November 17 at 10 am ET | New York/Livestream
Student Sermon: Chayei Sarah – Peter Young

November 17 at 11:30 am PT | Los Angeles/Livestream
Student Sermon: Chayei Sarah – Chayva Lehrman

November 17 at 12:45 pm ET | Cincinnati/Livestream
The Klau Library presents Rabbi Tamar Duvdevani, Ph.D.’s webinar
“’What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?!’ Parallels in Monty Python’s
‘Life of Brian’ with Rabbinic Writings” >> Register

November 19 at 10:30 am ET | Cincinnati/Livestream
Student Sermon: Chayei Sarah – Rebecca Benoff

November 20 at 11:30 am MT | Denver
Pines School of Graduate Studies, faculty, and students luncheon at annual joint meeting
of the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature

November 30 | New York/Livestream
DFSSM Senior Recital – Ze’evi Tovlev

November 30 at noon pm PT | Los Angeles
“Meet the Faculty” Brown Bag Lunch series with Candice Levy,
Visiting Assistant Professor of Rabbinics, HUC-JIR/Los Angeles

December 1 at 10 am ET | New York/Livestream
Student Sermon: Vayetze – Jack Sherratt

December 1 at 11:30 am PT | Los Angeles/Livestream
Student Sermon: Vayetze – Leo Fuchs

December 4 | Los Angeles
Special viewing and reception for “Frank Stella: Had Gadya” with Jewish Artists Initiative of Southern California

December 7 at 1:00 pm ET | Cincinnati/Livestream
The Klau Library presents Adam Krupnik’s webinar on
Stolen Books: Recovering Our Family’s Legacy >> Register

December 10 at 10:30 am ET | Cincinnati/Livestream
Student Sermon: Vayetze – Matthew Derrenbacher

Ongoing Events:  

The College Commons twice-monthly podcast and HUC Connect webinars
offering perspectives from Judaism’s leading thinkers >> huc.edu/HUCConnect

Cincinnati: “Sally Priesand Paves the Way: Celebrating Fifty Years of Women in the Rabbinate”
at the American Jewish Archives

Cincinnati: “Jewish Cincinnati: A Photographic Record by J. Miles Wolf” at the Skirball Museum

Los Angeles: “Frank Stella: Had Gadya” exhibition in the Mercaz

New York: “Magical Thinking and Other Persistent Notions” and “Street Visions: Europe, 1934 –
Photographs by Richard J. Scheuer” at the Dr. Bernard Heller Museum