The William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education of The Jewish Theological Seminary, in partnership with the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion School of Education, will launch a second Chicago-based cohort of the Jewish Early Childhood Education Leadership Institute (JECELI) with renewed support from The Crown Family. This model program recently graduated a cohort of 17 Jewish early childhood educators. The program develops leadership in programs for young children and their families, which in turn strengthens the Jewish community. The program offers intensive Jewish study and leadership development. Participants will learn how to help children and families find meaning in texts and ritual, create strong professional relationships using concepts from Judaism, and gain tools … [Read more...]
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Now Accepting Applications for the Third Cohort of the HUC-JIR Founders’ Fellowship
The Jewish community is changing and requires greater innovation than ever before. Just as Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion’s founders were unwilling to sit idly by and accept the status quo, so too are we looking to act towards renewal. The Founders’ Fellowship calls upon leaders in campus communities to share their visions for change. During this Fellowship, participants will: Workshop initiatives to strengthen progressive Jewish life in their own campus community. Acquire critical leadership skills to catalyze their vision and implement change. Network with dynamic, animated, and creative college students invested in progressive Jewish values. The Fellowship will last for six months, beginning with a three-day kick-off weekend in New York City on November 16-19, … [Read more...]
HUC-JIR Establishes Koret Foundation Scholars Program
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...]
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...]
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