Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) has received a $3.75 million grant from the Koret Foundation to establish The Koret Foundation Scholars Program. This transformational grant will fully fund tuition for the Year-In-Israel Program (YII), required for all first-year rabbinical, cantorial, and education students. The grant will be administered over a three-year period, beginning in the 2017-2018 academic year. The commitment to Israel is a core tenet of HUC-JIR’s mission. The YII Program was established in 1970 to foster a vibrant connection to Israel and Jewish peoplehood among the future clergy and educators leading North American Jewry. This year-long educational and experiential program is based at HUC-JIR’s Taube Family Campus in Jerusalem. … [Read more...]
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Reimagine Progressive Jewish Life on Your College Campus with the HUC-JIR Founders’ Fellowship
Do you have an idea for how to affect change within progressive Jewish life in your campus? Turn your idea into a reality by applying to the HUC-JIR Founders’ Fellowship! Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion is now accepting applications for the second cohort of the Founders' Fellowship. HUC-JIR’s founders, Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, were unwilling to sit idly by and accept the status quo. Inspired by their efforts, the Founders’ Fellowship empowers college students to stimulate meaningful change in progressive Jewish life in their campus communities through the implementation of innovative projects. Currently, the seventeen fellows in the first cohort of the Founders’ Fellowship are engaged in projects to enhance progressive Jewish life on fifteen East … [Read more...]
Reflections on a Big Bet: The Education Initiative with HUC-JIR, JTS, and YU
By Yael Kidron and Dawne Bear Novicoff When the Jim Joseph Foundation was founded in 2006, board members and other leaders in Jewish education held a series of meetings to determine a set of “strategic funding priorities.” While the foundation’s generous benefactor, Jim Joseph, z”l, ensured that Jewish education would be the sole focus of grant awards, he did not specify how the Foundation should pursue his vision. Ultimately, the Board identified three funding priorities, one of which is to increase the number and quality of Jewish educators and education leaders. This priority paved the way for the largest bet the Foundation has made to date - the recently completed $45 million, six year investment in Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR), The Jewish Theological Seminary … [Read more...]
After 141 years, HUC-JIR Launches New Logo
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the academic, spiritual and professional leadership development center of Reform Judaism, is inaugurating a new logo and visual identity system at the start of its 142nd academic year. The new logo is based on the concept of an “open” six-pointed star, a core symbol of Jewish identity. The “open” design messages HUC-JIR’s institutional values of innovation and inclusivity. The multi-colored elements of the star reflect its commitment to diversity and free inquiry. The geometry of the colored shapes expresses the dynamic energy that permeates its classrooms and engagement with the larger community. Connecting the shapes that make up the logo and extending this pattern in the design of other materials points to the connections that bind HUC-JIR’s … [Read more...]
With $1m gift, Geller-Gallagher Leadership Institute launched at HUC Zelikow School
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion is launching the Geller-Gallagher Leadership Institute (GGLI) with a $1 million gift from Jay H. Geller, a Los Angeles attorney and member of the HUC-JIR Board of Governors, and his husband, Lowell Gallagher, Professor of English at the University of California at Los Angeles. The GGLI at the Zelikow School of Jewish Nonprofit Management will develop and promote professional and lay leadership in the Jewish nonprofit sector through conferences, seminars, workshops and speakers’ series. Announcing the gift Jay Geller said, “Creating effective and successful nonprofit leaders, both professionals and lay, is not something that happens automatically. Some people are naturals when it comes to leadership, others require skillful training. Through the … [Read more...]
In Global First, JDC Entwine and HUC announce Graduate Fellowship for Global Leaders
Jane Weitzman - Jewish community and philanthropic leader - provides founding gift to foster activism on global Jewish issues among HUC-JIR rabbinic, cantorial, and Jewish education students In a first initiative of its kind, JDC Entwine - the growing young adult initiative of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) - and Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) have launched the Weitzman-JDC Fellowship for Global Jewish Leaders. The pioneering graduate fellowship - founded by Jane Weitzman, a JDC Board Member and Jewish community and philanthropic leader, together with her husband, shoe designer Stuart Weitzman - will provide HUC-JIR rabbinic, cantorial, and Jewish education students significant expertise in Jewish needs around the world and in Israel. “While … [Read more...]
Davidson School and HUC-JIR Awarded Grant to Launch Jewish Early Childhood Education Leadership Program in Chicago
The Crown Family has awarded a grant to the William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education (JTS) and Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion to launch a Chicago based cohort of the Jewish Early Childhood Education Leadership Institute (JECELI). This is the first regionally focused offering of the JECELI program, which has successfully engaged new and aspiring leaders in intensive Jewish study and early childhood education leadership development on a national level. Participants learn how to help children and families find meaning in texts and ritual, create strong professional relationships using concepts from Judaism, and gain tools to build community in their programs and institutions. The two-year program will launch this fall and will work closely with the Chicago Early … [Read more...]
HUC Names New Director of Zelikow School of Jewish Nonprofit Management
Erik Ludwig has been appointed the incoming Director of the Zelikow School of Jewish Nonprofit Management at the Jack H. Skirball Campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in Los Angeles. Erik Ludwig brings to the Zelikow School and the College-Institute a broad range of expertise in the Jewish nonprofit ecosystem, philanthropy and fundraising, professional leadership development, and management and governance of Jewish organizations. He comes to HUC-JIR from UpStart Bay Area, where he served as chief accelerator officer, responsible for providing some of the region’s most entrepreneurial Jewish leaders with organizational capacity-building and technical know-how aimed at making Jewish life accessible, relevant, and transformative. His executive experience spans the … [Read more...]
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